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Edward Thomson

@ethomson

3 years

Me committing code as a Product Manager

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OH: "I upgraded my windows 10 to get Ubuntu on Windows and my sound card stopped working. They really got this emulation right."

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I love this new change - the @npmjs registry now lets you know when a package contains built-in @typescript declarations.

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Me: Hmm, maybe I should explore TypeScript... 30 minutes later me: WHY ISN'T EVERYTHING TYPESCRIPT?

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alias gitt git alias gittt git alias gitttt git 👆 Using git in the age of the apple keyboard.

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Siri, what did modem noises sound like?

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@GergelyOrosz GitHub was what made git popular and dominant. Without that, we would probably still have no truly dominant version control system, because it delivered a *developer workflow* not a version control system.

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Wearing my npm t-shirt today. Very excited that npm will join GitHub. And I'm excited that I'll be moving over to @npmjs as the Product Manager once the acquisition completes.

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Excited to announce that @npmjs will be joining GitHub, and honored to have the chance to serve the millions of JavaScript developers who rely on npm!

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When I joined @GitHub , they gave me this personalized hoodie with my name on it. When I came to the Microsoft @VSTS team, I put it away out of respect. Happy to wear it again today to celebrate this momentous occasion. 🎉

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Rando: “c’mon, lets go have a drink. You’re not gay, are you?” Me: “uhhh no, but so what if I was?” Rando: “oh, are you one of those Microsoft guys?” Y’all, if what Microsoft is known for to random people in 2018 is pushing back on casual bigotry then I’m in the right place.

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New dad energy: taking my 5 day old daughter on her first walk to see the ducks in the pond down the road.

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The code that merges your pull requests was written at coffee shops, in pubs, on airplanes, and on my couch, all with just a laptop and no external monitor, keyboards, etc.

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@TheCodePixi Yes! GitHub is pushed to GitHub. 😀 And when it is, we distribute it across multiple servers in multiple availability zones (which we do for all repos).

Building Reliability with Spokes - GitHub Universe 2016

Patrick Reynolds, Senior Systems Engineer, GitHubGitHub hosts tens of millions of repositories on hundreds of file servers. The Git Infrastructure team runs ...

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@anildash Had he read that critical 51st book, he'd know it was "fewer than 50 books".

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Nine years of @github contributions. 🤯 Thanks, @martinwoodward !

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When it’s sunny and warm on a bank holiday weekend but you still want to hack a little bit on a project...

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Jumping into my little streaming cave to present about @github and @npmjs for #GitHubSatellite !

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@aschmelyun I trust you've got a kitchen rail for them as well.

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Last month, we taught @npmjs about packages with TypeScript definitions. Many of you suggested some great improvements - this one is my favorite: now we'll tell you when the types are in a separate package.

Edward Thomson

@ethomson

4 years

I love this new change - the @npmjs registry now lets you know when a package contains built-in @typescript declarations.

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I'm thrilled to announce that - after many years of work - we've released libgit2 v1.0.

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Want to know more about GitHub Actions? This month, I'm doing daily blog posts to help you learn more. Today is day 1: CI/CD triggers.

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My wife: geez, you computer nerds use a lot of acronyms. Also my wife: if you take the projection of this curve with these torsion points then it’s biellipiptic in two different ways up to isogeny and...

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2021 has been the longest, tiredest year of my life. But my daughter running headlong into the sunset waves makes it all so, so worth it.

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The @VSTS team is moving our deployment platform to Kubernetes, and we're hiring to help make that happen. Do you want to come work with me?

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Do you use Windows Subsystem for Linux? You can set up your Git Credential Manager to use the same access tokens that are stored in the Windows Credential Manager. #Git #WSL

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2 years

I'm super excited about the new job summaries in GitHub Actions - . I've built an action that will report your test results in the summary: - I hope you like it!

GitHub - test-summary/action: Show a helpful summary of test results in GitHub Actions CI/CD...

Show a helpful summary of test results in GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow runs - test-summary/action

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I woke up this morning without a job! 😅 Last week was my last week at @GitHub . I’ve been privileged to work with some amazing people on some amazing products in my tenure there and at Microsoft. I’ll be unplugged this week while I catch up on some relaxation.

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4 years

My best PR to date.

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Oh man @LivingComputers is too cool. I walked in to a Cray 1. Look at all that wiring! Hand-wired in Minnesota, if I recall.

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@ethomson

6 years

Git Advent Calendar: every day this month, I'll publish a Git top tip. Day 1: a reminder to set up your .gitattributes to control how text files are managed in your repository.

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4 years

I like a beer with solid GitHub contributions...

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6 years

Pro-tip: don’t OSS shame the maintainers. We’re busy and we’re trying our best.

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2 years

Excited to share this little site that I built to learn WebAssembly in @Vercel Edge Functions and understand its perf compared to JavaScript:

Wasm on the Edge

Maze solver in JavaScript at Wasm Vercel Edge Functions

wasm-on-the-edge.vercel.app

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8 years

My video training from @OReillyMedia launched! Check it out if you want to learn how to use Git in @VisualStudio !

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GitHub Actions has an API now! Let us know how you find it and what you do with it. 😀

GitHub Changelog

@GHchangelog

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GitHub Actions: API Beta

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If you want to change the name of your default Git branch to something else, but you want to keep all the pull requests in your repository, here's a tool that will change them all to the new default branch.

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@ethomson

7 years

Whoa. @VSTeam announces support for _truly enormous_ git repos - like the Windows tree - with GVFS at #GitMerge .

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6 years

Okay, normally I’d think this joke was too corny but a pub called Sir Isaac Newton is entitled to it.

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@ethomson

2 years

Just finishing up my first week at @Vercel ! Super excited to be here, thrilled to be a part of an awesome team, and only mostly overwhelmed by all the things that I need to learn. 😅

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@ethomson

6 years

Lather, rinse, repeat. Always repeat. #SeniorPupSaturday

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6 years

I'm coming late to the party, I know, but after some thoughtful articles on trunk-based development by @jezhumble and @davefarley77 , I humbly present the @VSTS team's thoughts and a description of our branching strategy:

Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team - Azure DevOps Blog

Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been...

devblogs.microsoft.com

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@ethomson

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I ported the @VSTS build agent to Raspberry Pi - if you’re at #OSCON and interested in talking about cross-platform CI/CD drop by the Microsoft booth.

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@ethomson

6 years

It probably won't surprise you to know that we've been quietly working on the @AzureDevOps change for a little while now. We've just been hiding it from you, with feature flags. Here's us flipping the first flag at 5am (Pacific).

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@ethomson

6 years

Are you interested in developer tools? Great! I made a thing for you: Developer Tools Weekly, bringing you the latest news every Sunday. Read issue #1 and sign up for future issues:

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You know you’ve made a truly *terrible* flight decision when you woke up early enough to get to your flight but the FAA has shutdown takeoffs because of computer problems. 😵‍💫

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@ethomson

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You know that you’ve made a bad flight decision when you don’t yet have an alarm early enough to get you to your flight on time.

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It’s alive! A 5x RPi4 cluster thanks to my friends at @picocluster … But… what should I do with it? 🤔

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@ethomson

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So cool that Cambridge has a @Raspberry_Pi store. I got to go yesterday; it’s full of clever ideas, gadgets and hacking hardware. So cool.

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@ethomson

3 years

Merge. Just stop with the nonsense. 😀

GitHub

@github

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Merge, squash or rebase? What do you prefer and why?

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: Yes, that’s ascii 0x0A 0x0A…

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I've been a loyal @1Password user for years... but it really went from best in class to frustratingly, terribly, barely usable in a single release. Desperately hoping that they turn this around. If not, what's the best alternative in 2022?

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5 years

Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, and have 12 and 1277 different commits each, respectively.

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@ethomson

7 years

Pro tip: cyclists aren't riding on pavement to be jerks. Make the roads safer and they'll stay off the pavement.

Blitz on cyclists riding on pavements around Cambridge schools and colleges

Councillors called for police to take action while others said danger cycling in the city had reached “ridiculous levels”

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I am *so excited* about the things we’re shipping at @Vercel today. Amazing work from so many people across the company. Stay tuned!

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4 years

git reset —hard

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Visual Studio 2019 is launching in just 45 minutes. I’m totally excited (and a little nervous) for @shanselman ’s awesome keynote.

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@ethomson

7 years

2007: Microsoft has no clue about OSS. 2017: Microsoft has too many people contributing to OSS on @github . The times, how they change.

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@ethomson

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Oh my god, Span<T> is what I've been looking for all my PInvoke'ing life.

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@ethomson

4 years

My code is running inside a container.

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@ethomson

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Sometimes people send nice notes when you create things. 😀

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10x developer advocate in training

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@ethomson

6 years

Microsoft is standardizing on @VSTS as the One Engineering System we use to build all our products throughout the company. Once a year we get together to look at our progress and plan the future. Today is that day! Happy #1ESDay !

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@ethomson

6 years

Yep, wearing this hoodie again today. 🎉😍🍾

Edward Thomson

@ethomson

6 years

When I joined @GitHub , they gave me this personalized hoodie with my name on it. When I came to the Microsoft @VSTS team, I put it away out of respect. Happy to wear it again today to celebrate this momentous occasion. 🎉

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2 years

Spent five minutes and shipped a new site with Vercel Edge Middleware. 😇

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@ethomson

5 years

The best part of tech conferences is 25,000 people’s phones doing the amber alert tone simultaneously.

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@ethomson

6 years

Ladies, if he: * Tells you to make big changes * Makes fun of your name * Asks you to fix problems you didn't create * Criticizes your whitespace * Demands unit tests He's not the one. He's a code review.

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@ethomson

4 years

Hi friends - please don’t do this, the people who build the tools we depend on deserve a private life.

Jenn Leaver

@jennleaver

4 years

Had a first today... a stranger messaged me on Facebook to ask for help with GitHub. I genuinely care about helping our users, but getting messages on Facebook or Instagram (which are personal and not professional platforms) feels uncomfortable. 😬

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Engineers: if you get a bug report and say "this is by design", then explain how the code works then you have dramatically missed the point. You don't need to defend _the code_, you need to defend _the design_.

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@ethomson

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I'm pleased to announce that I'm joining @StacklokHQ as a Product Manager — I'm incredibly excited about our mission to help developers and open source communities keep their software secure and choose safer dependencies.

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I, too, am tired of types. The next version of libgit2 will make liberal use of `void *`. Good luck, everyone!

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@ethomson

7 years

In Open Source, cooperation beats competition: @GitHub adopts GVFS to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories.

GVFS Updates: More Performance, More Availability - Azure DevOps Blog

It’s been a few months since we last talked about GVFS, the technology that allows Git to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories. And it’s been a busy few months. Not only have we been working on...

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@ethomson

7 years

Scaling Git - beyond just GVFS - more of the work we're doing in to increase Git performance at Microsoft scale.

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@ethomson

6 years

The house is a little bit quieter and a lot sadder today. This morning we said goodbye to our beloved old dog, Konrad. His goofy, toothless smile accompanied us from coast to coast across the US and then to the UK, and we'll miss him terribly.

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@ethomson

7 years

I'm very excited to announce that next week I will return to Microsoft; I'm going to be a Program Manager for @VSTeam . I can't wait! 😀

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@ethomson

5 years

The most obnoxious part of the App Store is region locking, as if it’s inconceivable that I have bank accounts in two different countries, want to use a bikeshare away from home, or try to order food when I travel abroad.

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@ethomson

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@TheCodePixi And then it’s backed up as well.

Carlos Martín Nieto | Backing up large amount of Git data | Codemot...

At GitHub we store large amounts of Git data and are constantly adding to it. Our old backup solution, based on generic tools, was no longer enough. It was t...

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@ethomson

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(Write great code. Do it wherever you can or want to. Don’t gatekeep.)

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Programming means spending hours debugging, re-reading docs, and assuming that your entire program has worked quite by accident for the last several years before realizing that you're calling `deflate` when you meant to call `inflate`.

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@ethomson

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If you're not watching #GitHubSatellite , you're missing @natfriedman keynoting in his @npmjs t-shirt.

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@ethomson

6 years

My hotel bathroom has a serious GitHub contribution graph.

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@ethomson

5 years

Current status: DevOps for Commodore 64? Damn right. Putting the final touches on my demos for #MSBuild .

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6 years

This is good guidance from @mike_kaufmann - avoid Git Flow, it's unnecessarily complex, and it's only popular because of the name.

Git Branching Guidance for DevOps Teams

Finding the best git branching strategy for the teams in your organisation.

writeabout.net

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@ethomson

4 years

Online car buying means that... you can’t see the you don’t talk car in person to car dealers

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@ethomson

7 years

Pro-tip: you don't have to use bash in Windows Subsystem for Linux. If you run `wsl`, it will use your login shell, so you can use zsh!

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@ethomson

6 years

Just filled out an internal survey asking what my familiarity with git is. I was shocked that I was able to choose the last answer, "I've contributed code to git". 🤯 Truly, it's a new #Microsoft .

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If you've set up a GitHub Actions workflow: how did you find our documentation? What did you try to do that you couldn't find documentation for? How could the documentation have been better organized for you?

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@ethomson

5 years

Checking out some high-energy physics today...! 😮

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@ethomson

6 years

I built a GitHub App! If you're using VSTS builds for your GitHub repository, you can rebuild pull request builds right with a comment in the PR. Node.js + TypeScript + @VSTS API + @ProbotTheRobot .

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2019 me: This recipe says to put it in the slow cooker for 36 hours!? I'd never leave the house with my slow cooker running! 2020 me: Where'd that slow cooker recipe go...

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@ethomson

2 years

@martinwoodward Show your test results in your job summary.

GitHub - test-summary/action: Show a helpful summary of test results in GitHub Actions CI/CD...

Show a helpful summary of test results in GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow runs - test-summary/action

github.com

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@ethomson

4 years

When you open a pull request with a dirty, terrible hack that you suspect will be contentious and then just close the laptop and go to bed.

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I got tired of spending $$ to run my @ProbotTheRobot in a VM. So I built a serverless extension for @AzureFunction .

GitHub - ethomson/probot-serverless-azurefunctions: Azure Functions adapter for Probot tools

Azure Functions adapter for Probot tools. Contribute to ethomson/probot-serverless-azurefunctions development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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@andy_kelley This assumes that I will, in fact, see the allocator later. No, my next appointment is with my friend the OOM killer.

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@ethomson

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Hey #NDCOslo , do you want to see DevOps for TRULY any platform? How about this beauty!? Stop by my talk today at 10:20. (Room 8)

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@ethomson

6 years

I’m sitting on the commuter train, wearing a suit and typing in an excel notebook. God help me, I’m becoming a Program Manager after all!

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@ethomson

3 years

GitHub now shows the people who contributed to a release. Thanks so much to the other 36(!) of you who contributed to @libgit2 v1.2.0.

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@ethomson

4 years

My first commit in a repo almost always has the message "initial revision". Do you have a similar habit?

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I wrote up some details about the GitHub App I made for @VSTS builds. It walks through the construction with @ProbotTheRobot , GitHub APIs and the VSTS APIs - including adding a sneaky new prerelease API.

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@ethomson

5 years

There are few better showers than the just-got-to-your-hotel-room-after-traveling-15-hours shower.

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My wife: I hate the portrayal of mathematicians as aloof and scatterbrained. Me: is that… lettuce in your pocket?

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A month of GitHub Actions tips and tricks. Today's Day 2: an introduction to matrix workflows.

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