benbalter

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SUPPORT file support on GitHub(github.com)
2 points by benbalter 9y ago|0 comments
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Open source license descriptions and metadata for GitHub repositories(github.com)
5 points by benbalter 10y ago|0 comments
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by benbalter 10y ago
See the section on "Sexually obscene content" in the GitHub Community Guidelines ( https://help.github.com/articles/github-community-guidelines... ). We purposely chose the word "obscene" and not &quo
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by benbalter 10y ago
I am the Product Manager for GitHub Pages. As has been mentioned multiple times here, the usage limits were not in response to a specific external event. The limits have been an internal policy (in one form or another) for as long as I&#x27
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by benbalter 10y ago
We may make things more flexible down the line, but for now, it was motivated by two primary reasons: 1. The overwhelming majority of users use one of those three design patterns. For example, I can tell you that more than 98% of GitHub Pag
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Behind GitHub's decision to standardize on one Markdown engine for GitHub Pages(github.com)
2 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown(github.com)
2 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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by benbalter 11y ago
> Is there a discussion somewhere that outlines some of the reasoning behind this pick? Yes. The decisions was actually made on the open source GitHub Pages Gem repo, based on both user feedback and actual usage stats: https:/&#x2F
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by benbalter 11y ago
They work just like any other Markdown file, and you can include a link in the rendered site to edit. See http://ben.balter.com/2015/09/13/github-pages-edit-button/ .
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The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub(ben.balter.com)
1 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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25 reasons why you should consume, publish, contribute to, and support open source(ben.balter.com)
1 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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Four characteristics of modern collaboration tools(ben.balter.com)
1 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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by benbalter 11y ago
From the original post: > The rank represents languages used in public & private repositories The delta is due to private repository usage influencing the rank.
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by benbalter 11y ago
Rank is number of repositories with that language created in a given year, so e.g., the languages with the most repositories created would be ranked 1, the second most 2, etc. Source: I ran the query.
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Contribute to OpenStreetMap from GitHub(github.com)
9 points by benbalter 11y ago|1 comments
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Speak like a human: 12 ways tech companies can write less-corporate blog posts(ben.balter.com)
2 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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by benbalter 11y ago
What do you mean by commercial offering? A paid version of GitHub Pages? What would you want to see in a paid offering that couldn't be baked into the current version?
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by benbalter 11y ago
> Do you have a wishlist of features to add to GitHub pages? Maybe allowing minimal sandboxed server side computation with a max runtime of say 1ms, setting headers, redirects or other stuff? I am guessing every little addition would eat
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by benbalter 11y ago
Ben from GitHub here. We don't offer an SLA for GitHub Pages (or GitHub.com generally). We've talked a bit about our typical traffic in the past ( https://github.com/blog/1992-eight-lessons-learned-hacking-o...
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Lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months(github.com)
16 points by benbalter 11y ago|0 comments
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by benbalter 12y ago
It does! https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licens...
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by benbalter 12y ago
It does! https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/lib/licens...
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by benbalter 12y ago
> A couple months ago, the entire thing collapsed on my face and we went with gitlab instead. Why? Because github's sales team f*ed it up. Apparently, the $5k minimum order was too small for them to care (at least that's what m
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by benbalter 12y ago
Yep. The `.nojekyll` option has been around since 2009: https://github.com/blog/572-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages
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by benbalter 12y ago
To be specific, all sites are processed through Jekyll, unless you add a `.nojekyll` file. Non-Jekyll files (like HTML or CSS) are passed transparently through Jekyll untouched. Adding the dashes to the file header simply tells Jekyll to wo
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by benbalter 13y ago
Knew we should have used a bubble sort. Thanks for catching that. https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary#pull-reques...
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by benbalter 13y ago
It installs Jekyll, and its dependencies, which users would have done normally, but explicitly locks the version into the same version used on the GitHub Pages server, ensuring that your local build environment matches the GitHub build envi
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What is an API? The federal government explains.(youtube.com)
1 points by benbalter 14y ago|0 comments