GitHub Blog·4yMath support in Markdown
From today, you can use the $ and $$ delimiters natively in Markdown on GitHub to insert math expressions. This content is then rendered using the highly popular MathJax library. Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists and mathematicians.
GitHub Blog·4yImproved REST API documentation
We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We’ve moved to a three-column layout to improve the readability of our docs and make it easier to see parameters with example requests and responses grouped together. The example column on the right in the three- column layout is sticky to allow you to cross-reference the example values to the request body parameters.
GitHub Blog·4yHow we’re using projects to build projects
GitHub has added project planning to its toolkit. The tool has been used by the engineering team at GitHub.com. The team uses issues to track and manage pitches from the team. They also use the tool to test out new features and release new products.
GitHub Blog·4ySupercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
GitHub Actions have added custom Markdown content to run summaries. Custom Markdown can be used for a variety of creative purposes. The same familiar functionality that powers pull requests, issues, and README files has come to GitHub Actions. We’ve also added a new helper utility to the @actions/core package.