What are ways to improve how you're using GitHub? How can you collaborate more effectively and improve your technical writing? This week on the show, Adam Johnson is back to talk about his new book, "Boost Your GitHub DX: Tame the Octocat and Elevate Your Productivity".
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Adam has written a series of books about improving your Developer Experience (DX). We dig into his newest book, which focuses on GitHub and how to get the most out of its features. He digs into settings, keyboard shortcuts, hidden features, CLI commands, and the command palette.
Adam also shares insights on the best ways to communicate on the platform. We discuss the nuances of GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM), effective communication in open source, the importance of maintaining civility in issue reports, and why Adam included a "glossary of acronyms" to help developers decode common shorthand like `LGTM` and `FTFY`.
This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger.
Topics:
- 00:00:00 -- Introduction
- 00:02:20 -- Why the focus on developer experience?
- 00:03:41 -- Process of writing the book
- 00:06:26 -- Filling in the gaps of knowledge
- 00:11:52 -- Github flavored markdown
- 00:16:00 -- Sponsor: Honeybadger
- 00:16:47 -- Acronym glossary
- 00:25:18 -- GitHub command pallette
- 00:28:35 -- What were questions you wanted to answer?
- 00:29:42 -- Whether to cover or not cover co-pilot
- 00:36:14 -- Video Course Spotlight
- 00:37:50 -- Advice on working with coding agents
- 00:40:46 -- D
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