GitHub’s API is really handy when you want to get stats about one of your repositories. Its GraphQL API in particular is really powerful. I’ve shown how it could be used to fetch project information in my GitHub Actions tutorial.
While working on another project, I ran into a limitation that had me scratch my head for quite a bit. I wanted to share my workaround for anyone who may run into this problem in the future.
A few months ago, I published The Power of a Conversational Code Review Culture. I talked about the importance of being generous with your code examples. Using GitHub’s built-in suggestions or posting diffs with the changes you have in mind go a long way towards helping the Pull Request’s author. It makes it easier for them to understand your suggestion, and include it in their code.
If you’re the reviewer and you already do this, kudos to you! Today I’d like to focus on the point of view of the Pull Request author.
Following yesterday’s post, I’d like to do a bit of a follow-up. Sometimes you “just” want to add a Mastodon icon to your site, linking to your Mastodon profile:
I have one just like that on my home page, alongside my other Social Media links.
In this post, I’ll cover 3 different ways to add such an icon to your site.
After dipping my toes into the Fediverse for the past few months, I wanted the Jetpack plugin to be there to help bloggers who wanted to interact more with the Fediverse on their sites.
Jetpack includes Sharing buttons that can be handy for your readers to quickly share your posts to their Social Network of choice ; adding a Mastodon button seemed like a no-brainer!
Let’s keep working on our GitHub Action! In the first parts of our series, we’ve discovered how to automatically add labels to an issue. Let’s explore some of the other things we can do with the Octokit client.
This post is part of the GitHub Actions: build your own JavaScript action series.
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In our last post, we built a JavaScript GitHub Action. That automation automatically adds an “Issue Triaged” label to all newly opened issues.
That’s great, but not necessarily very useful. In this second post, let’s look at an example of what we could do to make this a bit more useful!
If you work on GitHub, you’ll know GitHub Actions are powerful; they’re a great way to automate some of the tasks you regularly do in your repository.
GitHub introduced a marketplace where you can find actions for just about everything. This is a great way to get started with actions, see how useful they can be for your own projects.
In this series of posts, I’d like to go a bit further. We’ll be creating our own action to fit our exact needs. We’ll develop it within our existing repository, using JavaScript and GitHub’s own Actions Toolkit.
Let’s talk a bit about a big part of my job today. I currently work at Automattic where I help maintain the Jetpack plugin. I spend most of my day on GitHub, where I guide others as they contribute changes. I spend more time reviewing others’ code than writing my own these days. And that’s okay! I enjoy it a lot. Let me tell you a bit more about my code reviewing process. Let me know what you think about it, and don’t hesitate to share your own experiences and tips in the comments!
16Gb Android phone was perfectly fine 3 years ago. Today with Android 8.1 it’s barely usable because each app has become at least twice as big for no apparent reason.
That’s today’s problem with software in a nutshell. :(
Do you watch a lot of movies or TV Shows? Do you have a WordPress site? You will love Traktivity!
This plugin allows you to log everything you watch inside your WordPress site. You may then use that data for anything you want.
You could display the last few shows you watched in a widget in your sidebar, you could automatically post on Facebook or Twitter whenever you are watching something, or you could just keep that data to find out more about the genres you watch the most, or how many hours you spent in front of the TV last month or last year.
Most importantly, that data is yours, saved in your WordPress site for good.