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GitHub's Newish Features

This talk reviews features of GitHub that make it an attractive alternative to options such as Bitbucket and GitLab. The features that will be discussed include:

• GitHub Pages for free, static site hosting

  docs: https://mvolkmann.github.io/blog/topics/#/blog/github/pages/

• GitHub Projects for Trello-like task tracking

  docs: https://mvolkmann.github.io/blog/topics/#/blog/github/projects/ example: https://github.com/mvolkmann/blog/projects/3

• Browser extensions to make the GitHub web UI more like an IDE

  docs: http://localhost:8080/blog/topics/#/blog/github/extensions/

• Coming soon

  docs: http://localhost:8080/blog/topics/#/blog/github/coming-soon/

  • GitHub Codespaces to edit repository code in a browser
  • GitHub Discussions for hosting repository-specific forums
  • GitHub Security to report on common vulnerabilities and coding errors in repository code

• GitHub pricing

  docs: http://localhost:8080/blog/topics/#/blog/github/pricing/

• GitHub Actions for automating CI/CD steps

  docs: http://localhost:8080/blog/topics/#/blog/github/actions/ example: https://github.com/mvolkmann/blog/blob/master/.github/workflows/eleventy-build-deploy.yml past runs: https://github.com/mvolkmann/blog/actions