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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Aug 2021

    🤫 New shortcut: Press . on any GitHub repo.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    📣 Our friends accidentally made themselves private so lost all their stars recently. They fixed it straight away but now we need your help. Check out the project and give them a star for Valentines if you still love them ❤️

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  3. 12 hours ago

    You can now embed diagrams directly into your Markdown files, Issues and PR comments using Mermaid. Learn more -

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  4. 13 hours ago

    A picture tells a thousand words, but now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.

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  5. Feb 13

    🎂 🥳 🎈 Happy 20th Birthday 🎈🥳 🎂 Anyone ordered a Slice<Cake> for the charming Octocat in the red polo??

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  6. Retweeted

    🙌 Love this walkthrough of using Codespaces for data science and machine learning work:

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  7. Feb 11

    Get your team started with the new projects experience on GitHub - check out our tips! 🤓

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  8. Retweeted
    Feb 10

    We've opened a 30-day notice and comment period with updates to our Acceptable Use Policies and Community Guidelines. We made these changes to make our policies clearer and easier to understand, and appreciate your feedback.

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  9. Feb 11

    Whether or not it's performance review time or not, only you know the true scope and quality of your work—so make sure you take notes! has all the tips.

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  10. Feb 10

    Reading a CSV file isn’t exactly easy on the eyes, but this extension can help. Check out Rainbow CSV and make your CSVs easier to skim, filter and query(!), and more colorful: 🌈 Install it in VS Code, a Codespace, or even in .

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  11. Feb 10

    Looking to DRY up your GitHub Actions across projects? Try reusable workflows. Here are a few tips to get started.

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  12. Feb 10

    This GitHub Action lets you build, test, *and* deploy an Android application 🎉 h/t

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  13. Feb 10

    Bring all your conversations together, no matter where they are. You can now connect Discussions in your repo with and to get notified when a new thread is created or answered 💭

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  14. Feb 10

    How many reviewers do you require before you merge your pull requests? - Check out Octoverse for the facts on how the number of reviewers effects merge time - 

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  15. Feb 9

    Project planning with GitHub Issues looks different for everyone. Recently added are project descriptions and READMEs to help explain a given project’s purpose and how to best engage 💪 Oh, and now you can add outside collaborators! ✨

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  16. Feb 9

    Congrats to all the contributors to the latest release - fire up your downloads, 9.0 is available now! Loads of features but also this is the version that now has long term support (LTS)

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  17. Feb 8

    We’ve been listening to your feedback and have shipped improvements to the developer experience for Dependabot alerts. ✨ Check it out!

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  18. Feb 8

    Where do you store your application logic? The browser is definitely a popular spot these days. But there’s a new crop of tools helping developers keep code on the backend–and for certain applications this is definitely ideal. Read how and why.

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  19. Feb 8

    Looking for a quick way to see which projects or files are taking up your valuable disk space? The aptly named `dust` (a `du` alternative written in Rust) delivers! ▓▓▓▓██████

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  20. Feb 4

    Congrats to all our open source projects who shipped major version releases in January 🎉 Here's a few of our staff favourites, featuring , and more. Read the Release Radar for all the projects:

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  21. Feb 4

    What does your coding setup look like this year? Send us your pics! We asked more than 12,000 devs where they expected to work in 2022. 48% expect hybrid of home + office and 39% think fully remote. Read more

    Pictures of some of our desk setups
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