Best of GitHub — June 2021

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    Avatar of ghblogGitHub Blog·5y

    Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer

    GitHub Copilot is a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. It draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions. As you type, it adapts to the way you write code to help you complete your work faster.

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    Introducing the new GitHub Issues

    Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.

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    Avatar of tnwThe Next Web·5y

    GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better

    GitHub is introducing an AI-powered automcompletion tool called GitHub Copilot. The aim is to learn how you write code, and to suggest lines and functions automatically. The tool is available only as a technical preview, so you’ll have to apply to try it via this page.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·5y

    Deploying with GitHub Actions

    GitHub Actions can be used to set up an auto deploy process for a CI/CD system. You will need access to your hosting environment and have FTP, SFTP, or SSH access in many cases. This article will focus strictly on SSH keys, which are used to authenticate into a server.

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    Avatar of ghblogGitHub Blog·5y

    A framework for building Open Graph images

    GitHub has a new tool for automatically generating social sharing images. It uses the GitHub GraphQL API to collect data, generates some HTML from a template, and pipes it to Puppeteer to “take a screenshot” of that HTML. Open Graph is a set of standards for websites to be able to declare metadata that platforms can pick out.

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    Avatar of discdotDiscover .NET·5y

    Will AI Replace Developers? GitHub Copilot Revives Existential Threat Angst -- Visual Studio Magazine

    GitHub's GitHub Copilot is an "AI pair programmer" with code-completion functionality. The preview prompted a predictable revival of the years-long "AI will replace developers" theme on Reddit and the Hacker News dev-oriented social site. A Hacker News post on Hacker News generated 1,225 comments, while a Reddit post generated 532 comments.

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