Best of GitHub — November 2020

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   DEV·5y

   Easiest way to set up your Github profile page

   If you are a developer you probably have a GitHub account, and if you're like me your profile page is probably empty. In this tutorial I am going to show you some quick and easy tips to make your GitHub profile at least somewhat presentable. To set up the repo you need to create a super-secret type of repo, which is just a repo with the exact same name as your GitHub account name. We need to edit the readme file with some markdown and it will all show up on our profile page.

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   Hashnode·6y

   Create A Badass GitHub Profile READMEs

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   CSS-Tricks·5y

   Upptime

   Upptime is the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pages. It's used by 1,000+ people and teams to ensure they know when their endpoints go down. Every 5 minutes, a workflow visits your website to make sure it's up. Response time is recorded every 6 hours and committed to git.

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   Hacker News·5y

   “Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ”

   Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Pick a username Email Address Password Sign up for GitHub by clicking “Signup for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

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   DEV·6y

   Basic Git knowledge for beginners.

   Git is a version control tool used to monitor and track changes in our files and push our source code to remote depository. Created by Linus Torvalds, It is a phenomenal tool to use, but becomes very challenging and daunting for newbies at first. This tutorial will help you to get over that fear and will show you the basics of git.

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   Hashnode·5y

   GitHub Students Developer Pack (By GitHub Education)

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   GitHub Blog·5y

   Introducing split diffs in GitHub Desktop

   GitHub Desktop now lets you visualize code changes in a side-by-side, or split, view. Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone. More than 1 million people now use GitHub Desktop every month.

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   JavaScript in Plain English·5y

   A powerful backend ready for your next app

   Parse server is a frontend-as-a-Service (BaaS) that runs on top of Express. It features: authentication, users, roles, access control lists (ACL) and class-level permissions (CLP) The whole stack is open source with no vendor lock-in or pay-per-request restrictions.

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   Open Source Way·5y

   5 open source alternatives to GitHub

   GitHub is not open source, but some organizations have come to rely on the non-Git parts of GitHub's service offerings. For many people and organizations, insurance against vendor lock-in is a worthwhile investment. Check out these five GitHub alternatives, all of which are open source.

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