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Get a bird's eye view of your application security stack with code scanning's tool status page so you can quickly confirm everything is working ✅ and troubleshoot any security tool in your toolbox 🛠️.

Manage your application security stack effectively with the tool status page | The GitHub Blog

Code scanning’s tool status gives you a bird's eye view of your application security stack, allowing you to quickly confirm everything is working, or troubleshoot any tool in your application...

May 5

Busywork is a barrier between us and what we want to achieve. The point is: boilerplate sucks. Watch

@ashtom

put AI to work and see how you can start shattering these barriers with GitHub Copilot X.

Web Summit Rio 2023: Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X | The GitHub Blog

GitHub CEO Thomas Domke demonstrated the power of GitHub Copilot X live on stage.

Learning by doing, from Python to Twitch

May 5

This week, we look back on how

@codewithanthony

maintains over 70 open source projects—including pre-commit and babi—and connects with his community through teaching online on the ReadME Project.

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Creator of pre-commit (and 70+ other projects), @codewithanthony found a modern classroom in Twitch, engaging and learning with and from the community. Get his full story, now on The ReadME Project:

We're celebrating Maintainer Month with a spotlight on the Maintainers behind some of your favorite projects!

Hey Copilot, can you plz make my snake game prettier? 🐍 #WebSummitRio

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New to GitHub Actions? We built an actions playground to help you get started! 🕺 Go to this link to start learning: gh.io/actionsplaygro

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May the source be with you. Go check out this classic animated ASCII art in your terminal: github.com/gabe565/ascii-

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Join us all month long for Maintainer May! Go to maintainermonth.github.com to see all planned events and create your schedule.

In the latest The ReadME Project Q&A,

gets advice from

, and

about considering contributions to your project and what code—and noncode—contributions are most valuable now. This and more on the blog.

More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions | The GitHub Blog

Whether feature request, bug fix, or whatever else, there’s more to contributions than meets the eye.

Tell us how you approach different types of contributions to your project.

The CLI is a powerful tool for developers—especially if you prefer the keyboard over GUI interfaces. 💻 Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line in this blog post by

@itsthatladydev

CLI tricks every developer should know | The GitHub Blog

Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers.

May 3

"It isn't that developers need to strive to be 10x, it's that every developer deserves to be made 10 times more productive. With AI at every step, we will realize the 10X developer." -Thomas

"The point is: Boilerplate sucks. It is just the barrier between us and what we want to achieve." -Thomas

"Like all of you, like every developer, my energy, my creativity every day is finite. And all the distractions of life – from the personal to the professional – beginning in the morning gradually zaps my creative energy." -Thomas

Today,

takes the stage at Web Summit Rio where he will attempt to build an app in 18 minutes with Copilot X. You can watch it live! rio.websummit.com

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Need some help getting in the zone? This CLI for

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Alerts on false positives? Dismissed. 👋 Thanks to a new alert rules engine and a rich set of complex, contextual alert metadata, Dependabot can now detect and auto-dismiss up to 15% of npm alerts as false positives.

Dependabot relieves alert fatigue from npm devDependencies | The GitHub Blog

A new alert rules engine for Dependabot leverages alert metadata to identify and auto-dismiss up to 15% of alerts as false positives.

We’re celebrating Maintainer Month w/ our friends

@linuxfoundation

: bit.ly/3VkQZTt. Join us for the #MaintainerMonth Happy Hour @ Open Source Summit NA, May 8 at 5:30 PM PDT Register for #OSSummit: hubs.la/Q01MLhtN0 Register for Happy Hour gh.io/ossna

Contributing to Windows Package Manager

Happy #MaintainerMonth! Open at Microsoft is celebrating with a new episode on the Windows Package Manager Community repository. They'll teach you how to contribute, demo wingetcreate & YAML Create, and even throw in some bug reporting tips.

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In this episode of Open at Microsoft we discuss how to contribute packages to the Windows Package Manager Community repository. Both wingetcreate and YAML C...

Developer productivity and satisfaction: How generative AI can make a difference

Generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot for Business are changing the game in software by enabling engineering teams to focus on important (more enjoyable) work. See how it works in our upcoming webinar on May 11!

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Increasing developer productivity starts with having tools that can help them code faster, stay in the flow, and make meaningful progress on what matters most: building great software.

You can only accept one type of contribution to your open source project from now on—which is it?

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Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? See how you can help during #MaintainerMonth!

Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May! | The GitHub Blog

Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity!

May 1

Developers lose hours with framework issues, looking up syntax and writing boilerplate code 😨 These tasks break flow, reduce satisfaction, slow velocity and increase churn 📉 Fortunately, GitHub Copilot can help! 😎

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Babylon.js 6.0 looks incredible! Congratulations to the

@babylonjs

team and 400+ contributors 👏 babylonjs.medium.com/announcing-bab

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What’s your passion project?

@KMcNaught09

teamed up with

@specialeffect

to build open source software that enables developers with disabilities to scale virtual worlds using just their eyes. Hear about her work now on The ReadME Podcast. github.com/readme/podcast

Beyond gaming,

found that Twitch offered something more. Watch how a background in livestream gaming, research and education converged to create a more open and interactive experience for teaching and building connections. github.com/readme/guides/

This month on The ReadME Podcast, hosts

@martinwoodward

and

@nerdneha

dive into shifts in technology that force us to adapt and inspire us to dream big. From nuclear fusion research to taking your next career leap, check it out on The ReadME Project.

This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress | The GitHub Blog

Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials.

Ever wonder where

gets all that GitHub merch? The GitHub Shop has you covered. 🛍️ thegithubshop.com

Whether it’s a feature request, bug fix, or an addition to the docs, there’s more to contributions than meets the eye. This month, maintainers

@theavalkyrie

@ljharb

, and

@zzzeek

open up about contributor relations. gh.io/AAkjo37