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Get Updated with the Latest Trends on GitHub in Your Local MachineGitHub feed is a great way for you to follow along with what’s trending in the community. You can discover some useful repositories by looking at what your connections have starred.Image by AuthorHowever, there might be some repositories you don’t care about. For example, you might be only interested in Python repositories, but there are repositories written in other languages on your GitHub feed. Thus, it may take you a while to find useful…

Github ActionsLearn how to automate experiment tracking with Weights & Biases, unit testing, artifact creation, and lots more…Photo by Andy Hermawan on UnsplashIn layman's terms, Github Actions lets you automate a few routine and repetitive tasks — be it testing code every time it is deployed on the production branch, checking for good coding practices on PRs, cross-browser code testing, unit-testing, retrieving runs from MLFlow/WandB tracking, automatically closing stale issues, etc. The list is truly endless.While…

GitHub Inc.’s new automated computer-coding tool will help companies manage a chronic shortage of software developers, but it will not replace them, according to the company’s chief executive officer. Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of Microsoft Corp. -owned GitHub, says the artificial-intelligence-powered coding tool, launched this week as Copilot, is designed to ease the task of writing long lines of computer code from scratch. Software code is the mathematics-like…

On Wednesday, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) found a surprising way to develop her upcoming cryptocurrency regulation bill: she put it on GitHub. “As promised, you can now contribute comments on my bill establishing a framework for digital assets with ,” Lummis wrote in a tweet sharing the news. “Civil comments and criticisms welcome. Please share widely. We want to get this right. Help us iterate publicly on policy.” Best known as a repository for open-source code, GitHub includes a number of tools for that could be…

Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft's GitHub Copilot pair-programming service is generally available to all developers as of June 21. The service costs $10 per user per month or $100 per user per year. Microsoft launched GitHub Copilot in preview last year.GitHub Copilot suggests code to developers right in their editors, with the AI component acting like a pair-programming assistant. Suggestions are meant to match a project's context and style conventions and allow developers what to accept, reject or edit. GitHub Copilot is…

Hardek said about 1.9 million students are active in the GitHub Education platform."What is particularly game-changing about Codespaces in the education space is how the development environment is set up," said Hardek. "So for anybody that has ever tried to code as either a student or tried to teach, setting up that development environment can take minutes, it can take hours, it can completely derail someone's experience in computer science and turn them around just to get into the place where then you start writing…

What makes a Python developer valuable is how effectively he can use the dense style of writing code Python is the favourite coding language among developers. Why not when programmers can just sail through with ease while putting together the syntax even for code running for thousands of pages. Python is well known for being concise and enriched with readable classes which can absorb a lot of processes within a small amount of code. But what makes a Python developer valuable is how effectively he can use the dense…

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and the quality of code — Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source…

Can we somehow measure open source love?Photo by Roman Synkevych 🇺🇦 on UnsplashApart from hosting our precious code, GitHub also provides an extensive set of REST APIs. These can be used to retrieve a variety of useful metrics for a given repository, which might also give an idea about its current state. Julia is a relatively new language, however, it’s package ecosystem has witnessed a tremendous growth over the last few years. The number of new packages seems to have skyrocketed! I would like to argue that simply…