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What Where
Official Page https://github.com
Service Status https://www.githubstatus.com/
Docs https://docs.github.com
Download https://desktop.github.com/
Windows choco install github-desktop

RSS Feed for Commits

Add ".atom" to a given commit link to get an RSS Reader update on a given file/folder or the entire project.

For example:

Add the atom link to your rss feed reader to get notified on updates.

All starred projects

To get all starred projects of a user go to: https://github.com/stars/<user>

e.g. my starred projects are here: https://github.com/stars/FullByte

VScode online

Press "." in any github repo to open the editor.

Add "1s" to "github" to get the VScode GUI of the github repo you selected

Example:

SSH Keys

Get a users SSH Key:

https://github.com/fullbyte.keys

Firewall

Get all IPs to whitelist for Github (Actions) from here:

https://api.github.com/meta

Helper

  • Smee receives payloads then sends them to your locally running application
  • Probot automates and improves your github workflows with pre-built apps
  • Use gowalker to search for code
  • Look for popular projects by number of stars
  • Use githistory.xyz e.g. if this is your url: https://github.com/FullByte/FullByte.github.io/blob/master/mkdocs.yml replace com of github.com with githistory.xyz e.g. https://github.githistory.xyz/FullByte/FullByte.github.io/blob/master/mkdocs.yml to get a nice view.

Execute Gist/Github Script

You can run remote scripts from e.g. Github (either gists or raw content):

From powershell with github raw file:

Windows

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FullByte/project/master/file.file'))

From cmd with gist link:

PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/FullByte/000000000000000000000000000000000000/raw'))"

Linux

From bash

bash <(curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FullByte/scripts/master/something)