To be fair, the article acknowledges as much: > The solution I've employed involved discovering and forking of a kick ass data conversion tool called Mr. Data

To be fair, the article acknowledges as much: > The solution I've employed involved discovering and forking of a kick ass data conversion tool called Mr. Data Converter, and quickly the tool retrofitted with some of my own enhancements: > * HTML5 File API - Allows me to acces file content without server side technology. > * oAuth.io - Dead simple, client side oAuth for Github and other platforms. > * Github.js - A JavaScript API wrapper for Github, enabling client-side interaction.