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Emoji Folding

wadethestealth — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:00:58 GMT

Emoji Folding

Inside the styles.less:

atom-text-editor .fold-marker::after { content: "\1F981"; }

I personally hated the look of atom's default folding icon. I decided to take a look at the source and noticed it was just a hexcode, so I replaed it with the lion emoji hex code.

For some emojis, I also increase the font size with font-size: 1.0em to make them more visible are render more smoothly. Through this tweak, I learned the content property accepted hexcodes.

Customize the cursor !!

co16353sidak — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:05:07 GMT

This seems like a very trivial case, and something which is already provided as a sample property in the `styles.less` file: customizing the curosr.

I personally like the terminal cursor alot, a big blinky cursor always letting me know where i am.

to do this simply make the following changes.

atom-text-editor::shadow .cursor {
border-right: 5px solid white;
}

Color code projects in tree view by changing their bg color

rayfoss — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:33:07 GMT

In styles.less ('Edit' -> 'Stylesheet...')

.project-root:nth-child(even) {background: #002}
.project-root:nth-child(odd) {background: #222}

.project-root:nth-child(1) {
    background: #202;
}

.project-root:nth-child(2) {
    background: #000;
}

.project-root:nth-child(3){
    background: #200;
}

This color codes the first three projects, then alternates for other projects. Helps with large project folders that use similar folder organizations, frameworks and file names.

Hide single tree-view tab

UziTech — Wed, 29 May 2019 14:05:24 GMT

// hide tree-view "Project" tab
atom-dock.left atom-pane:only-child .tab-bar .tab:only-child {
  display: none;
}

Adding this snippet to styles.less will hide the "Project" tab above the tree-view when it is the only tab. If another tab is added to the left dock it will automatically show both tabs.

Google-style scrollbars

Richienb — Tue, 28 May 2019 05:15:40 GMT

This Atom tweak introduces Google's minimal scrollbars as seen in the image below:

To use the tweak, simply add the following less code to your styles.less file:

.scrollbars-visible-always ::-webkit-scrollbar {
  border-radius: 100px;
  background-color: transparent;
  width: 8px;
  height: 8px;
  overflow: visible;

  &-button {
    height: 0;
    width: 0;
  }

  &-corner {
    background-color: transparent;
  }

  &-thumb {
    border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4);
    border-radius: 100px;
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
    border: solid transparent;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 6px;
    min-height: 28px;
    padding: 100px 0 0;

    &:hover {
      background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
    }

    &:active {
      background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
    }
  }

  &-track {
    background-clip: padding-box;
    border: solid transparent;
    border-width: 0 0 0 4px;
  }
}

Universal Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence

churchs19 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 01:44:10 GMT

Project: Global Data Ethics Pledge - https://github.com/Data4Democracy/ethics-resources

PR: https://github.com/Data4Democracy/ethics-resources/pull/38

I contributed to this project because it has become increasingly clear to me that the computer science profession has become obsessed with doing things because they can, not because they should. As an industry, we fail to think about the long-term impacts and worst-case scenarios on a regular basis. This discussion about ethics in the industry is important and necessary so that we don't bring about the dystopia we seem headed for.

Contribution at hurricane-response/florence-api

Kaushl2208 — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:07:30 GMT

I have contributed to hurricane-response/florence-api two days ago the pull request is still pending.

The pr link is https://github.com/hurricane-response/florence-api/pull/77

Social Impact Collection Challenge entry

0ChanAk — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:20:47 GMT

Name the project(s) you contributed to: coralproject/talk

Link to your PR/contribution:https://github.com/coralproject/talk/pull/2057

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to: I was always interested in contributing to Talk.It has a lot of feature that newsroom needed. i find myself fortunate to get the opportunity to contribute to this project.

Added meetups focusing on utilizing tech for good : Social Impact Collection

prasadseth — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:28:57 GMT

Name the project : civicdata/civicdata.github.io

Link to my PR : https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/130

I attend meetups related to Tech for good and I understand their need. By sharing some details related to some popular meetups will help everyone to know and attend such meetups. This is my major reason to contribute for civicdata project.

Thanks.

Increased test coverage

andrezacm — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:25:42 GMT

Project: ifmeorg/ifme

Pull Requests:
https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1214

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1229

I've chose to contribute for this project cause I have seen people struggling with mental ilness and I have a very close person in my life that have been dealing with depression for a long time, so I felt compelled to contribute.

Add Italian translation to REFUGE Restrooms

MauroCoppola — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:09:28 GMT

Name the project: REFUGE Restrooms

Link to PR: https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms/pull/519

Description: I chose this project because we need to be always careful about issues that might be trivial for a lot of people, but still are reason of discrimination for many other ones. I'd like to thank the project's team to keep the lights on this cause.

Contributing to Civic Data Alliance(CDA) Website

dldisha — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:23:23 GMT

Project Name:

Civic Data Alliance

civicdata/civicdata.github.io

Link to my PRs:

https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/123

https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/129

Description:

I choose civicdata/civicdata.github.io as my project because they advocate open data for people with diverse backgrounds and are focused on values like diversity, equity, accessibility, openness, transparency in civic tech and open data which interests me a lot.

So I wanted to help their website to be more social friendly and with a lot of resouces which are helpful to people.

Modified release process for ifme

tryantwit — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:46:05 GMT

Contributed to ifmeorg/ifme.

Made pull requests:

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1082

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1040

I chose to contribute to this project because it was a domain I was familiar with. Dealing with Rails and React. The idea of the site also appealed to me, having known several people in my personal life affected by mental illness.

Improving Awareness to Civic Data Alliance Website

wadleo — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:24:02 GMT

Project name:

Civic Data Alliance / civicdata.github.io

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to:

Supporting non-profits that advocate for open data/tech resources for people with diverse background has always been a personal goal of mine. Civic Data Alliance also showcases other tech non-profits and help to them be more visible to the general public. So helping to make their website more social friendly is something I am proud to do. Thanks for the opportunity @civicdata @github

Link My Contributions: Issues and PRs

Improving Awareness to Civic Data Alliance Website

wadleo — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 05:19:46 GMT

Project name:

Civic Data Alliance / civicdata.github.io

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to.

Link My Contributions: PRs

Translating Refuge Restrooms to Brazilian Portuguese

shadowmaru — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 17:06:20 GMT

Project: Refuge Restrooms (https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms)

Link to PR: https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms/pull/521

Why: I think this project, although simple, it's of great value for those who need it. And I think the Brazilian LGBTQ+ community could benefit from it, especially now that we will have an elected president that is reportedly against minorities.

Translate strings to Portuguese (Brazil) to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap on tasking-manager

hi15 — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:18:42 GMT

Name of the project: tasking-manager
Link to your PR/contribution: https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1263
Description: I choose this project because I like their cause and mainly because is a project that I could make a difference translating to portuguese (Brazil) to support them in an issue.

Diaper App for Ruby for Good

jcavena — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:55:30 GMT

I contributed to the diaper app project because it is used to improve diaper bank services for those in need. Its goal is to improve diaper bank efficiency by lower costs, improving inventory control and managing relationships with diaper bank partners.

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/589

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/601

Contributing to Social Impact Collection Challenge - Alex Project

OtacilioN — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:43:57 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I decided to contribute for Alex, a project that aims to help people with inclusive language, following this issue: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/issues/202 I decided to contribute for the internationalization of Alex to Portuguese from Brazil, so I made this issue: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/issues/239 and start to work in Alex ecosystems modules. Such as cuss project and retext-profanities.

So I made this two pull requests:
- https://github.com/retextjs/retext-profanities/pull/13

- https://github.com/words/cuss/pull/19

Contribution to ifme

MarijkeM — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:51:33 GMT

I contributed to ifmeorg /ifme, a site built for people to share there personal stories with friends and family.

I live in Belgium and speak Dutch, when I saw the Dutch translated site, I saw a lot of spelling mistakes. The grammar nazi in me awoke and I got to perfection the translation of the site. I did two pull requests because I didn't get all the mistakes the first time around. Now the Dutch speaking people can enjoy the website without being distracted by grammar mistakes and that gives me a peace of mind ;)

Two pull requests:

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1197#issuecomment-431370771

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1210#discussion_r228319961

My contributions

ricglz0201 — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:16:52 GMT

Name the project I contributed to: Diaper
Link to your PR/contribution: https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/600
A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to:

I chose this project because I saw the potential that this translation that I made could help to make a bigger impact in the community, not just those who speak english but also those who speaks spanish

Contribution to IEEEKerala - rescuekerala

prnvdixit — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:12:13 GMT

I contributed to the "IEEEKeralaSection - rescuekerala" project by adding GDPR text to the disclaimer page on the site. I believe this was something required and relevant amid all the GDPR compliance efforts going on around the world.

The link to my PR: https://github.com/IEEEKeralaSection/rescuekerala/pull/1004

I chose to contribute to this project because this is really something I've noticed being put to use firsthand during recent Kerala floods. I expect this can be used for any other unfortunate natural disasters in future for rehabilitation and relief efforts. I’m really looking forward to being a part of this project!

Increasing the open source visibility to civic data alliance organization website

kmehant — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:32:54 GMT

Project name:

civicdata / civicdata.github.io

Link to the pull request:

https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/121

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to:

I loved the main motto of the organization of creating diversity to a good level

The Civic Data Alliance (CDA) is Louisville’s Civic Tech org and they are focused on advocating for inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, openness, transparency and accountability in government, civic tech, and open data. This simple pull request gets everything done

Civic Data Alliance is interested in ethically liberating, improving, gathering, defining, and reporting on public data and the state of civic tech while fostering an inclusive and diverse civic tech community.

Conclusion:

I feel it needs more open source visibility so that its other projects under the GitHub Org would be checked.

Performance Contribution to HospitalRun

RanadeepPolavarapu — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:02:35 GMT

I contributed to the hospitalrun-frontend project.

My PR (https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend/pull/1548) for this project was to improve the performance of docker builds as it was quite slow.

I chose to contribute to this project specifically because I am a major supporter of the field of medicine, healthcare, and the development of the African continent. I personally felt this project does a lot of good in the world and was started originally to target African nations. I feel that this project can greatly empower local african clinics to quickly self-host this offline application to manage their local patient records. This computerized record keeping can definitely improve the caregiving to patients as it will allow doctors and nurses to achieve higher productivity. This productivity increase in turn would allow them to spend more time caring for patients and less on record keeping.

Entry: Social Impact Collection Challenge

blossomica — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 18:42:30 GMT

I helped improve the documentation of ethics-resources.

I believe ethics, in general, play a great role in creating boundaries that help keep a balance to ensure that certain technologies and/or data are used for good reasons.

Being inclusive in the coralproject

tanhengyeow — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:34:57 GMT

Name the project(s) you contributed to:
https://github.com/coralproject/talk

Link to your PR/contribution:
https://github.com/coralproject/talk/pull/2036

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to:
Being an avid reader of community forums, I appreciate that there is such an initiative to improve the conditions commenting platforms face. I am glad to be included in this initiative by contributing to the community in ways I can.

Translate to catch inconsiderate/insensitive writing

Leodau — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:30:15 GMT

Contributed to :

Alex
Tasking Manager

How:

Alex uses the Cuss profanities rating sys.

Spanish Internasionalisation - feat(Profanity_ES): Adding Venezuelan dialect profanities.

The Tasking Manager now does translations through Transifex

Review unreviewed translations on Transifex - I joined the Spanish translations team and helped translating around 100 sentences.

Why:

Wanted to be part of the online international laguage awareness movement.
Contributing with something other than my IT skills, helping with translation and awareness.
Learn about live language detection and word rating systems.

👍

Technology for good

ovhemert — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:06:53 GMT

Found this great site about tech for good. Since we can use some more awareness of it in the EU, I've added some meetups to the list. PR: https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/118

Data Ethics case study

sayantikabanik — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:47:18 GMT

Contributed to - "Data4Democracy"

Link to my PR

The above PR redirects to the most researched case studies for data ethics. It answers few of the most crucial questions like, how data has evolved in past few decades and how careful we should be while it's utilization.
(Source -Data&Society)

Improve Portuguese translation in the if-me project

lucianosousa — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 19:32:53 GMT

https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1211

Alex contribution for Social impact collection Challenge

KikeSan — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:26:24 GMT

Project: Alex

PR: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/240

Why: I chose this project because I agree that we must have a cleaner and inclusive language, for the good of the community and society. You have to keep in mind that how you write says a lot about you.

Contributing to Civic Data Alliance

ritwik12 — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:53:35 GMT

Civic Data Alliance

I chose civicdata/ civicdata.github.io as it seemed to be a great contribution to Open Source with a nice blog, calendar and even Techquity.

I noticed that very few details are provided in README.md and so I thought of adding few more.

Issue created - https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/issues/115

Pull Request - https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/116

Contributing to hotosm/tasking-manager

SawyerPan — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:31:51 GMT

hotosm/tasking-manager
https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1255
This project meets my need, and is lack of locale that I can contribute to.

Social Impact Collection Challenge entry

Parikshit-Hooda — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:28:20 GMT

Name of project : Data4Democracy/ethics-resources

Link to PR : https://github.com/Data4Democracy/ethics-resources/pull/35

Reason for contributing to Ethics Resources : I believe that ethics is one important distinguishing factor between order and anarchy. Also, I have a course subject on Ethics this semester, so I thought this would be a nice way to give back to the knowledge base that has helped me. Also, the typo fix PR is quite easy to submit ;)

My Contribution to Hospital Run

jackcmeyer — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:52:18 GMT

I contributed to the Hospital Run repository for my social impact colelction challenge.

Open sourced healthcare products is a passion of mine, especially when the product is making healthcare technology accessible to third-world countries.

I look forward to contributing to this project in the future.

Here is my contribution: https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend/pull/1534

My Contribution to the Data for Democracy project

riacheruvu — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 21:44:57 GMT

I contributed to the Data4Democracy project by adding resources that discuss important considerations on the ethics of data science.

The link to to my Pull Request is here: https://github.com/Data4Democracy/ethics-resources/pull/32

I chose to contribute to this project because I support and want to be a part of D4D’s initiative to create an ethical framework for data scientists and ML practitioners. I’m looking forward to being a part of this project!

Diaper App for Ruby for Good

seanmarcia — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:36:38 GMT

One of the projects I contributed to was the diaperbase project that helps diaper banks! I chose thise projects because I met Rachel from the Portland Diaper Bank who told me the story of why she started one. I'm super excited to be part of a project that helps so many kids each monthl.

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/561

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/552

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pull/489

Diaperbase

armahillo — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:31:43 GMT

Name the project(s) you contributed to.

Diaperbase https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper

Link to your PR/contribution.

https://github.com/rubyforgood/diaper/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Aarmahillo

A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to.

This project is awesome and helps underprivileged communities!

Contribution in Adding link of Tech for Good events and meet ups to the site

rb007123 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:11:47 GMT

I contributed to civicdata / civicdata.github.io.
This is the link to my PR which is to be reviewed: https://github.com/civicdata/civicdata.github.io/pull/114
I regularly attend meetups related to social impacts and I understand their need. By sharing some details related to some popular groups, I would feel really happy. The groups I shared are growing at a really fast pace and their contribution to various social communities is very high. This is my major reason for choosing civicdata project.

Thankyou!!

My Contribution for Github Social Impact Challenge

fopeak — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:11:31 GMT

Name of the project that i contributed
Algorithms https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms
PR Links

https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms/pull/350

https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms/pull/365

https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms/pull/369

https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms/pull/375

https://github.com/VAR-solutions/Algorithms/pull/513

Description

It was fun!

GitHub community challenge

rahulkumaran — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:44:20 GMT

Project that I contributed to was HospitalRun-frontend

PR Link : https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend/pull/1547

I chose to contribute to this project because I have a real good opinion about projects that work to improve health standards, hospitals management and the process of helping people get their illness treated.

Contribution to retext-equality for Alex

wuz — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:24:48 GMT

Project: alex

PR: https://github.com/retextjs/retext-equality/pull/61 (referencing this issue: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/issues/219)

Why: This project is one that I find really great. Recently, I've been working hard to change my language to cut out ablist language. Using a project like this to filter my writing is incredibly useful.

Join Social Impact Collection - han-k/Data4Democracy

han-k — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:14 GMT

I contributed to Data4Democracy.

https://github.com/Data4Democracy/ethics-resources/pull/29#pullrequestreview-167685531

I enjoy reading about data science and how it can help shape more fair and just policies in our country. I was extremely happy to have been able to provide some measure of assistance. The response of the moderator was encouraging and I am interested in learning more in order to contribute more to open source projects.

Social Impact Collection Challenge - mjalkio

mjalkio — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:45:38 GMT

I contributed to two projects from the collection.

Name of Project: Alex

Pull Request: https://github.com/words/profanities/pull/13 (this project is utilized by Alex, and is mentioned in its CONTRIBUTING doc)

Why I chose this project: I loved the idea of this project. It's very simple, but very powerful, and can help developers (and others) be more aware of the language they're using.

Name of Project: ifme

Pull Requests: https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1155 and https://github.com/ifmeorg/ifme/pull/1190

Why I chose this project: I was looking for an Issue that would be the right fit for me. This project had an issue marked as DevOps, which is something I've been trying to learn more about. It encouraged me to learn some new things about git hooks.

Social Impact Collection Challenge

nathanhannig — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:30:43 GMT

freeCodeCamp

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/pull/23862

I am a user of freeCodeCamp and want to make sure the best content is available for people learning.

Harry-Potter-themed website

b3u — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:43:53 GMT

The project is called Open Hogwarts, a referencec to the main setting in the harry potter series.

My pull request was OpenHogwarts PR #57. I chose to contribute to this project because of my interest in harry potter, and because I wanted to help a repo get some recognition by making a website for them.

Added Finnish translation to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager

ernoma — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 10:32:16 GMT

I contributed to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager 3 (hotosm/tasking-manager).

The pull request: https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1215.

Some reasons for the contribution are that I have been active mapper and validator for humanitarian OSM for several years, can produce good Finnish language text (imho), I consider the topic important.

Social Impact Collection Challenge - Added two GeoJSON endpoints to hurricane-response/florence-api

nihonjinrxs — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:19:14 GMT

I contributed to the hurricane-response/florence-api project.

I picked up an open feature request issue (hurricane-response/florence-api#44) and delivered a PR that resolves it by adding two new GeoJSON endpoints to the API:

https://github.com/hurricane-response/florence-api/pull/70

I chose this project to contribute to because I've contributed to it and to its predecessors several times before. Much of my family was impacted by Hurricane Katrina when it hit New Orleans over a decade ago, so I do what I can to help out with hurricane response efforts as much as possible.

Hacktober Fest - Social Impact Challenge

IfeanyiEkperi — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:44:47 GMT

Project: Redesign of Jugaad Fest logo

Job: I redesigned the Jugaad Fest logo and converted to SVG

Link: https://github.com/fossasia/jugaadfest-artwork/issues/1#issuecomment-431304748
https://github.com/fossasia/jugaadfest-artwork/pull/4

Why I choose Jugaad Fest: As an open sourcerer, I love Open Source projects that united people together in terms of festivals, meetup etc and being part of the process to make this happen is a passion.

Social Impact Collection Challenge entry

hugovk — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:59:52 GMT

Name the project(s) you contributed to: HOT tasking-manager
Link to your PR/contribution: https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1232
A brief description of why you chose that project to contribute to: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team does important work coordinating and mapping areas (and doing so quickly) of the that need are without adequate coverage, to allow humanitarian organisaitons to go in and help out as effectively as possible.

Contributing to Alex by helping new developers who don't know of the portability of npm with yarn

ItsPugle — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:21:47 GMT

The project: Alex, a tool to help adress bias and prejudice in software.

My contribution: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/227

I chose to see how I could help contribute to the Alex project because of its social enteprise goals - it's openly tackling the unfortunately prevailing issue of inate bias and prejudice in software by detecting insensitive and offensive writing, helping to make sure that by default everyone is made to be welcome and apart of the community.

Social Impact Challenge - PR approved!

jonyeezs — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 03:44:21 GMT

Project: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
PR: https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1209
With more occurance of civil unrest and huge scale natural disaster. The need to coordinate the masses for aid or awareness is ever so critical. To have a tool such as this, will aid without addind extra burden to the community - hopefully.

Contribution to Alex for Social Impact Collection Challenge

laurenmayers — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:18:44 GMT

Name of project: Alex

Link to my PR/contribution: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/224

Why I chose to contribute:

I was really interested in the Alex project since for its unique approach to creating a positive social impact. Alex detects potentially harmful language in online text, and provides a platform for users to check their writing for potentially harmful or offensive content while providing suggested revisions. I was happy to contribute to Alex and I hope to see it continue to grow.

Reviewed documentation for alex and florence-api

Gotham13121997 — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:16:04 GMT

PRs -> https://github.com/hurricane-response/florence-api/pull/51

https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/222

I often feel like I make posts on social media without thinking about whether they may be offending to some people.

alex can come in as a very handy solution to the problem and allow people to communicate without offending anyone. I believe its a brilliant idea and I would love to contribute to it further.

My motivation to contribute to florence-api for hurricane-response comes from a similar incident we faced a few months back in Kerala, India in which a massive flood took over the state. During that time we and almost 100 other developers came together to form https://github.com/IEEEKeralaSection/rescuekerala/ to aid in rescue operations. I realised the importance of technology for disaster management. I would like to add this repo as a suggestion for Social Impact collection challenge as well.

Although I am unfamiliar with the technologies used in both of these repos , I will try to help out as much as I can.

Thank You

Contributed to retext-equality for alex issue

agans — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:22:58 GMT

Project: alex

PR: https://github.com/retextjs/retext-equality/pull/51 regarding this issue https://github.com/get-alex/alex/issues/219

Why?: Given how much time people spend reading and writing on the internet, language plays a big role in determining how people see the world. I think a lot of people would be interested in learning how to make their writing more inclusive but they don't have anyone to help them do so. Alex is a nice tool for people who want feedback on their writing style but don't know where to begin. It can also spark healthy discussion/debate/knowledge sharing and help non-native English speakers. As a woman software engineer, I can see how a tool like this would be helpful at work in particular. I hope to contribute more!

Helping other devs contribute to Alex, for the Social Impact Collection Challenge

MrBenJ — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:31:12 GMT

I contributed to get-alex/alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex

My pull request to get-alex/alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/217

While working with some other Github members on internationalizing Alex, I noticed that several contributers were lost on where to put new keywords and profanities for the tool, as I myself was lost, I did some digging through the issues and noticed that I wasn't alone. Using the creator's own words from previous open and closed issues on where the files and contributions should be placed, I added a small section to the `contributing.md` file so future contributors can find where to make their pull requests and help make this tool even better.

Alex is a excellent tool that parses text to check for any accidental or inconsiderate/insensitive writing. Everyone in open source should feel welcome and open to contribute to the community, and I strongly believe that a tool like Alex can help developers from around the world write better README documents that allow everyone to feel included and encouraged to participate in building better software as a community.

Hacktober Fest - Social Impact Challenge

LMulvey — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:13:46 GMT

Project Name: Alex

PR Link: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/218

When Hacktoberfest started, I began seeking out OSS projects that I could contribute to that would make a difference. Originally, this meant improving frameworks that I used on a daily basis both in personal projects and at work, however, after searching, I originally found the repo for IFME and requested to be a contributor there as projects that serve to support mental health initatives are really close to me.

While waiting for approval, I saw Alex, a writing parser that aimed to flag indecency and exclusion in user's writing. This excited me a ton both for me own personal use of it, but also, as a tool for others to help them really think about the words they chose to use, the effects they may have, and the alternative words to use in their place. It's more important than ever these days to stand up to oppression of all kinds and to stress equality and understanding at every turn. While Alex is a small piece of the puzzle, it's one I can use my skills to contribute to and to help support these initiatives, so I was excited to do it and will continue to do so in the future.

Contribution to Alex under Social Impact Collection Challenge

tmott13 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:15:23 GMT

Contributed to Alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex

Link to PR: https://github.com/get-alex/alex/pull/214

Alex helps to catch inconsiderate/insensitive writing.

Why I chose this project?

I believe it is important to be more aware of the language we use online, whether it is on social media, an online forum, or on our own personal websites.
Alex is great tool to help us catch insenstive or inconsiderate words as you type.
The application is only in English right now but I like that the creator opening the doors by letting developers add more languages so that it can be an international movement.

Thank you GitHub for adding Alex to the Social Impact Collection Challenge.

Contribution to Refuge Restrooms under Social Impact Collection Challenge

sankalpchauhan-me — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:39:44 GMT

Contributed to RefugeRestrooms https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms

Link to PR:- https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms/pull/503

Why I chose this project?

REFUGE restrooms indexes and maps safe restroom locations for trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. The idea of refuge is to make acess to restrooms easy for trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. This project will help trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals in the society and society can better connect with them.

According to the http://www.ustranssurvey.org/ :-
1: "59% of respondents avoided using a restroom for fear of confrontation"
2: "31% avoided eating or drinking while out, to avoid having to use the restroom"
3: "24% had their presence in the restroom questioned"
4: "12% had been harassed, attacked, or sexually assaulted in a restroom"
5: "9% had been denied restroom access"
6: "8% had developed a kidney issue or urinary tract infection from avoiding bathroom usage"

For the above reasons I decided to contribute to the project.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the world face legal and social difficulties not experienced by non-LGBT persons. This should not happen as we as humans must live together and must not discriminate each other on the basis of race, skin color, ethinicity, religion, sex etc. This project is a step forward that will enable all of us to treat every one with dignity and equality.

Reviewed documentation for HOT tasking-manager

Akshit312 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:56:48 GMT

Project Name: tasking manager

Link : https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/pull/1196

Being a python developer, I was looking for a project which is interesting and has Server(python). I found Tasking manager interested and was exactly what I needed. I am thankful to Social Impact Collection Challenge for helping me in finding the right project for me.

New to GitHub Web

mochsner — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:44:33 GMT

The (3) tutorials I covered were:

- Intro to GitHUb

- Communicating using Markdown

- Managing merge conflicts

From my experience with Git, I've learned that GitHub's UI definitely makes the management of merge conflicts much easier. Most of my experience with git is through a cmd/terminal, so taking this course has definitely opened my eyes to the ease of use a GUI might provide. Additionally, I was able to get a nice refresher on markdown - something I need having no experience with using a "preview" option for markdown.

All in all, I think these are great tutorials, but I also wish there were parallel git bash tutorials. Maybe in the future!

I dig the bot

joshg253 — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:49:21 GMT

* Communicating using Markdown
* Introduction to GitHub
* Moving your project to GitHub

Pages were completely new to me. These were fun and useful. I especially liked the bot. I remember doing older versions of the Learning and having to wait for an actual human to review/merge/etc. and I was just stuck until someone did.

Nice lab

sujunmin — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:25:09 GMT

Introduction to GitHub Communicating using Markdown GitHub Pages Managing merge conflicts Moving your project to GitHub I know the github not only putting code, but it is a good cms system for everyone. I use hexo to be my ghpage for blog, maybe the original one is good. I learned more things about communication.

Learning With Github Learning Lab

hamiduabu — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:55:31 GMT

Courses completed so far:

Introduction to GitHub
Communicating using Markdown
Moving your project to GitHub

So far I have learnt about assigning issues, closing issues, how move projects from other websites like codepen to Github, about .gitignore and I have created my first .gitignore file :smileyvery-happy: .

It's Interesting and good to know that there are several ways to move a project to Github apart from using the command line.

Right now I am particularly thrilled about using GitHub Pages to create a site or blog from my GitHub repositories.

Git for sane development process

charsme — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:28:52 GMT

Completing course Github learning lab give me major benefit on doing development the sane way. Just completing starter courses already big boost on development flow and maintenance management. Ease of use, quick and adaptable environment really help me out. Just try out

1. Introduction to Github
2. Communicating Using Markdown
3. Github Pages

Already cover major part of my development workflow.

After learning this introductory course, make me realize I am lacking certain basic understanding on git usage this far. Migrating my repo to github is a next to do things.

Awesome lab!

mrniceguy127 — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:09:47 GMT

Courses Taken:

- GitHub Pages

- Moving your project to GutHub

- Introduction to GutHub - Attempted (Lesson literally failed to function. Never got an issue submitted, so I learned on my own with the video provided: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=314&v=sz6zfrQpCQg)

This was really neat lab to check my GitHub skills. The most valuable thing I learned taking these courses was how to move my projects to GitHub and level up my community score. I now have a better understanding of how to be a good developer and how to communicate with my team.

My first github challenge.

randomdize — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:50:07 GMT

First time walkthrough the github flow. Didn't know I can edit file in the pull request before, but now I know I can. It's a great experience.

My GitHub Learning Lab Submission

Realex78 — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 02:08:43 GMT

The three courses I took:
- Introduction to GitHub

- Communication using Markdown

- GitHub Pages

What I learned:
The thing that I most apreciated was the GitHub Pages course, I didn't know GitHub had that feature. I will be using that in the future as I saw that it doesn't have a limit on how many hours your project will be hosted (compared to other free hosting platforms)

A Practical Approach to Git Learning

mhxion — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:33:48 GMT

Completed Courses:

Introduction to Github
Communication using Markdown
Managing merge conflicts

What I Learned:

Most importantly, the whole Github Flow and managing merge conflicts.

What I made:

Updating README pages with more info using markdown, https://github.com/mhxion/pornaway/blob/master/hosts/README.md

GitHub Learning Lab Explorer Challenge - MiniFlames

MiniFlames — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:52:15 GMT

Courses completed:

Introduction to GitHub
Managing Merge Conflicts
GitHub Pages

Followed the challenge courses to better acquaint myself with GitHub. Already had some fleeting experinces with GIt and GitHub but this makes me more inclined to do more on/with GitHub in the future. Will be interesting to see if these courses are expanded upon in the future.

Highly recommend taking the GitHub Learning Labs

JB4706 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:45:55 GMT

I recently completed all of the GitHub Learning Labs:

Introduction to GitHub
Communicating Using Markdown
GitHub Pages
Moving Your Project to GitHub
Managing Merge Conflicts

I enjoyed taking all of the courses and learning the correct ways to use GitHub. The documentation was well written, and the interactivity helped to reinforce each lesson for me. As for the most valuable thing I learned, that would be how to resolve conflicts in the Managing Merge Conflicts course. That course really made me work to resolve my conflicts.

Challenge Entry by Waqar

waqardm — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:37:37 GMT

Courses completed

1. Intro to Github

2. Github Pages

3. Communicating Using Markdown

The thing I learnt and that which has benefitted me most is Github is not as scary as it initially seems. I was hesitant to use even think about learning about creating pull requests etc as it seemed so overwhelming but the courses have helped me understand, it is relatively easy :smileyhappy:

GitHub Learning Lab Challenge EngrSMukhtar Entry

engrsmukhtar — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:08:30 GMT

Courses Completed:

1. Introduction to GitHub

2. Communicating using Markdown

3. GitHub Pages

Most Valuable Thing from courses: My takeaways from the GitHub courses include learning about GitHub Flow and GitHub Pages and the knowledge to professionally move local projects to GitHub's platform.

My funniest memories are the use of the Markdown to express my feelings :tada: and to __*emphasise*__ some certain aspects of my work. Special thanks to GitHub.

Submission Entry

Gleydar — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:01:35 GMT

Courses I completed: * Introduction to GitHub * Communicating using Markdown * GitHub Pages What I learned: The most valuable thing I learned during GitHub courses is how powerful GitHub Pages can actually be. I worked with the tool before, but haven't had the time to really look in depth at it. I believe that I will be able to use this knowledge in the future and already have some ideas in mind.

jmerle's submission

jmerle — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:53:03 GMT

Completed courses:

The most valuable thing I learned is that the "Managing merge conflicts" is actually a really good way to teach people who are new to Git how merge conflicts work and how to resolve them. At college, the second class about Git was about merge conflicts, and even at the end of the semester some people did not understand them because. I think that this course could really help understand that piece of Git, and have bookmarked it to share with others when necessary.

Hamberfim's Submission

Hamberfim — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:32:34 GMT

Learning Lab:

1. GitHub Pages

2. Communicating using Markdown

3. Managing merge conflicts

I learn how simple it was to host web content on GitHub.

Furthermore I learned how I can use Markdown syntax to quickly get content formatted on GitHub pages and how to utilize Jekyll for a fresher user exprience or even a blog site. Lastly, but prehaps the most important skill I learned was, how to resolve and merge conflicts through the online GitHub interface.

P.s. You need to create more labs. The content is a bit sparse.

Thanks. :D

GitHub Learning Lab Explorer Challenge Submission

hoangle96 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:30:43 GMT

I have taken all 5 courses offered by GitHub: (i) github-slideshow, (ii) markdown-portfolio, (iii)github-move, (iv) github-pages-with-jekyll, (v) merge-conflict.

Through these 5 courses, I have learnt more about the current terms used in GitHub workflow. I also learnt about merging conflict and using markdown to write readme file.

octopi are great

RobinTTY — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:06:52 GMT

Completed Courses:

- Github Pages

- Communicating using Markdown

- Introduction to Github

Theses courses certainly help to get a better Overview of Github's features and quirks, more of these courses would be a nice addition. The most valuable thing I learned is probably that many of the features that are within Git itself can also be done on Github without ever touching Git. Thanks for this little intro!

Contest for badge

olaoyesunday — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:02:38 GMT

LAB Coursese I took on GitHub

1. Managing merge conflicts
2. Moving your project to GitHub
3. GitHub Pages
4. Communicating using Markdown
5. Introduction to GitHub

valuable things I learned while going through my courses

I learnt how to adhere to YAML format while writing my resume. It was interesting on how to move code from local machine to github and how to upadate it using pull request then later merge it to the Master. I also learnt how to resolve conflict when working with other developers in which I have been thinking since all these days how to reslove conflict if two or more developers made changes to a single file, and opened pull requests then merge their branches to the Master.

Regards, Using GitHub

reroes — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:49:31 GMT

Hi, everybody.

I completed the next three courses:

- https://lab.github.com/courses/introduction-to-github

- https://lab.github.com/courses/communicating-using-markdown

- https://lab.github.com/courses/github-pages

In this courses I learned about:

- Pull request

- Drive github pages

- Drive resolve conflict

My Learning Lab Explorer Challenge Entry

cenksoykan — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:30:35 GMT

I have completed 5 courses which they are;

Managing merge conflicts
Moving your project to GitHub
GitHub Pages
Communicating using Markdown
Introduction to GitHub

This challenge specifically helped me to understand merge conflicts. Also, I learned how to present my projects via GitHub Pages and blogging with Jekyll. I have already been familiar with some of the topics yet my skills are polished well by this awesome challenge.

Thanks! :heart:

Awesome lab!

Obsinqsob01 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:30:06 GMT

I have completed 4 courses of Github Learning Lab, they are:

While attending the courses I learned different things from each one, the most important are:

How to solve merge errors in the code
How git works with github
How can I use markdown as text style
How to use github pages to present my projects and repositories with others

My Learning Lab Explorer Challenge Entry

naveenyagati — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:29:03 GMT

I took:

Introduction to Github
Communicating using Markdown
Github Pages

I am glad that you have introduced these courses as I use Github for projects, but I am still not very good at the merge conflicts or remembering that you can use markdown for pull request messages. I learned much more about how to manage merge conflicts within Github and in a few different ways. I also relearned how helpful markdown can be when you want to make a certain point in a pull request message. Markdown can help you to show where the problem is and how you would recommend it be solved much more easily than just assuming they know what you mean.

Thanks GitHub for these interactive courses.

akashgiricse — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:26:38 GMT

I completed these three courses

Communicating using Markdown
Moving your project to GitHub
GitHub Pages

Learning through these interactive courses was really fun. I learned how to create my own blog using GitHub Pages course. I also learned some new markdowns, like checkbox and emojis.

Complete GitHub Learning Lab Explorer Challenge

t1016d — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:14:11 GMT

Introduction to GitHub
GitHub Pages
Communicating using Markdown

Some Github features are new to me, it's good to know them through these courses.

More precisely, I don't know the full supported online commit function of Github until I take the courses.

The powerful github Page and Markdown emoji are awesome.

It's great to found this challenge on Tweeter this night.

Github is way cooler !

cruseakshay — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:12:14 GMT

course completed:

1. Introduction to Github.

2. Communicating using Markdown.

3. Github Pages

Takeway from the course:

- I need to learn Github to the full extent.

- Contributing to the community and open source seems way easy after these course.

- I can now confidently create my own with Github Pages.

- Now i feel more comfortable using features offered by Github.

Thanks !

Completed the challenges, can I have a badge please

Lewiscowles1986 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:12:11 GMT

- [x] Introduction to GitHub

- [x] GitHub Pages

- [x] Managing merge conflicts

I Just wanted to get the badge TBH. I tend to work differently to attempt to avoid merge conflicts (fetch and rebase often)

Thank you GitHub! 💚

Fascinating learning experience and eye opening

vhanla — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:03:00 GMT

* Introduction to GitHub

* Communicating using Markdown

* GitHub Pages

I just finished some Lab courses and I must say, this is very didactical and useful how it integrates well with GitHub's PR system.

I didn't know about how useful GitHub can be via visual GUI directly on the GitHub site, I was only using it remotely via `git` commands.

Definitely a great experience, GitHub features are very useful, prior to this courses I didn't know about other features it has.

GitHub Labs picked up from where YouTube left off

Taariqq — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:53:58 GMT

Courses taken

Introduction to GitHub
Managing merge conflicts
GitHub pages
Communicating with Markdown
Moving your project to GitHub

My two bits:

Having gone through couple of YouTube tutorials (Brian Yu's being particularly helpful) I found the use of the website helpful in doing things that perhaps would not make sense by the command line. Learning to merge the pull requests from the project owner's perspective, use of the GitHub Pages, an visually seeing the branch merge were very helpful. Kind of disappointing that we can not make a Page for every repo.

Accordions Rock!

webapprentices — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:40:16 GMT

GitHub Pages
Completed
Learn how to create a site or blog from your GitHub repositories with GitHub Pages.
Communicating using Markdown
Completed
This course will walk you through everything you need to start organizing ideas and collaborating...
Introduction to GitHub
Completed

I learned about the value of grit. The bot was maddening. I kept getting error messages with no idea of how to correct the error. The community discussion worked. I found someone with a similar challenge, and I eventuall figured out what I had done wrong -- added an extra space before the date in Step 7 of the GitHub Page course. After this mini-victory I am now ready to complete the remaining two lab courses -- after a Long Island Iced Tea!

Carlos Learning Challenge

cgonzalezp91 — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:36:03 GMT

1. Introduction to GitHub

2. GitHub Pages

3. Communicating using Markdown

* It is really healpfull the way that GitHub Lab Teach, the fact that we use all the tools while solving our course help us practice and understand the benefi of each tab and option that GitHub have for us

* I love Markdown, since i been using GitHub a what i want to do is do a good README with the tools that the markdown give us to make it beautiful, thanks to this course in Lab now i know who to use it like a pro!

GitHub Learning Lab Explorer Challenge Entry

rudeigerc — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:20:58 GMT

Completed courses:

Introduction to GitHub
Communicating using Markdown
GitHub Pages

I think those courses are very suitable for those who begin to start learning programming, and provide platform for them to experience issues and pull requests.

Lineargs' challenge

lineargs — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:15:13 GMT

GitHub Pages, Communication using Markdown, Introduction to GitHub

As always it is fun working with the GitHub Pages and I loved the Markdown support course, just lines and dots crrating such a powerful lines

GitHub Learning Lab Challenge

LeoColomb — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:48:06 GMT

Courses completed:
1. Introduction to Github.

2. Communication using Markdown.

3. GitHub Pages
4. Moving Your Project to Github.

5. Managing merge conflicts

The courses helped me dive deep into the concepts of open source contributions, and more specifically to understand conflicts merging on GitHub web tool.

Learning Lab Challenge

agriffard — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:08:58 GMT

Introduction to GitHub
Communicating using Markdown
GitHub Pages

My GitHub Learning Lab Challenge

prateekiiest — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:08:30 GMT

The courses that I have completed:

Communicating using Markdown
Managing merge conflicts
GitHub Pages

The courses helped me dive deep into the concepts of open source contributions. Previously I faced much problems in resolving merge conflicts. Now after having gone through the course, I am totally clear about it. Also the course on GitHub Pages helped me to build my first website on GitHub.

Overall, my experience was Awesome :smileyhappy:

Learning GitHub Basics and some Applications

sanmayamohanty — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:15:29 GMT

The coures i completed in GitHub learning lab are -

**Managing Merge conflicts**

**Communicating Using Markdown**

**Introduction to GitHub**

The take away from the courses at GitHub lab were using GitHub pages to publish my information and successfully knowing the nuances of handling merge conflicts. Also became aware of the meanings of many of GitHub jargons.I also learned markdown syntax.

GitHub learning lab challenge

dnaxv — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:32:03 GMT

I completed the courses:

Introduction to GitHub
Communicating using Markdown
GitHub Pages

The most valuable thing that I learned was how GitHub works. The engineers at my company use it so I have seen glimpses, but I had no real idea what it was for or how it works. Now I will be able to decipher their communications. I hope to investigate GitHub further to see if it can serve as a project management solution for non-engineering work.

GitHub Learning Lab Explorer Challenge

yangciou — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:34:36 GMT

Hello!

In the GitHub Learning Lab, I have completed all six of the courses(as of 6/25/18), and these include:

Introduction to GitHub.
Communicating using Markdown.
GitHub Pages.
Moving your project to GitHub.
Managing merge conflicts.

Out of the six courses I took, I find the courses "Communicating using Markdown," and "Managing merge conflicts," the most important to me. They taught me the most valuable things I learned while going through the courses.

Before taking the course, "Communicating using Markdown," I didn't really know Markdown. I only knew the basics like using a hashtag to indicate it's a heading, and I knew this only by the README.md included with the repository I create. From taking this GitHub Lab Course, I understood and knew more Markdown, thus I can create better README.md files in my repositories as well as comments for commits.

"Managing merge conflicts," was also an important and valuable lesson in the GitHub Learning Lab Explorer. This is because I never actually knew about this issue that could exist, and this would save me the trouble of searching the internet or asking someone about this issue later on, when multiple people edit in a single repository. After taking the lesson, I know what causes the issue, and the basics of how to fix the problem.

The other lessons featured in this GitHub Learning Lab Explorers such as "GitHub Pages" didn't contribute to my knowledge, since I actually watched YouTube videos regarding this before I knew about these lessons. I also knew a lot of the basics from watching tutorials, so these lessons didn't really contribute to my knowledge, but certainly they honed my skills, and the templates such as the resume were really useful, since I might use them later on!

All in all, these courses were helpful, and I would definitely recommend them to a friend.

GitHub Learning Lab Challenge

Thetwam — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:20:16 GMT

I took all five courses:

Introduction to GitHub (I'm not sure why - this is showing "In Progress" on the screen showing all courses, but "Course completed" in the course itself)
Communicating using Markdown
GitHub Pages
Moving your project to GitHub
Managing merge conflicts

I've used GitHub for a little while now, so I'm already used to the interface for the most part. However, these courses got me to use the built-in editor more! Prior to the courses, I knew it existed but didn't really touch it much. It's quite useful! I also liked using the built-in editor to resolve merge conflicts - made it super easy.