Giving a conference talk in 5 acts:
1. I really want to give a talk. π
2. Why the fuck did I say yes to this? π°
3. Oh God, this is going to be awful. π
4. Adrenaline and sweat. π±
5. That was cool, people seemed to not hate it. π
Repeat and learn nothing.
COO at GitHub. CMO of Developer at Microsoft.
Joined April 2007
- You're 100% unsuspended now. I'm working with our Trust & Safety team to understand what went wrong with our automations and I'm incredibly sorry for the trouble. GitHub β€οΈ @defunkt!
- Been at GitHub for nearly 13 years and I'm pretty sure this request is more than 10 years old... πComment on unchanged lines in any file inside a Pull Request is now available Gotta keep the core of GitHub getting better every day. π«‘
GIF - Iβm very fragile right now, Steven. Donβt tempt with my emotions.
- A little pro-tip for the new @GitHub homepage: drag the globe, find real pull requests, and π. Go check out what the world is doing now: github.com
00:00 - Over 14 years ago, I had to drop out of school. I couldnβt come up with the money. Thanks to COVID keeping me home, Iβm graduating with my Bachelors. This wonβt change my career... but the process did change me. Thanks to my family and @GitHub colleagues for all the support. π
- Ten years ago, I joined GitHub to build tools for builders. Since then, Iβve built products, landed acquisitions, and met thousands of you who are building your lifeβs work with GitHub. Today, I step into the role of COO at GitHub and Iβm ready to dig in.
- Replying to @RhysSullivanI've been following your tweets the whole time, and I share them with the team too. Your V0 build of the homepage, the PR page convo, the upload that @MerrillLutsky gets right, and the reactification of GitHub that's half done. We gotta be better, no need to beg.
- My wife constantly praises @Shopify as a consumer. βAll stores should be Shopify stores!β And every Shopify dev Iβve met has been kind and talented. Quite the double unicorn they have over there. ππ»π
- I missed it by a bit, but hit 7 years at @github a few weeks ago. I've worked with hundreds of Hubbers, thousands of customers and partners, and looking forward to 7 more years. π Way too many people to shout out. Thanks to everyone who made those years the best.
- We're cooking now, chat.RE: Stacked Diffs on @github After discussion w @ttaylorr_b, we can implement stacked PRs/PR groups already (in fact we kind of do with Copilot) but restacking (automatically fanning out changes from the bottom of the the stack upwards) would be wildly inefficient. To do it
- I got my start in Rails before 1.0, @GitHub is still powered by Rails, and weβre excited to join as founding members to keep Rails a growing ecosystem. ππ Gotta make it easy for everyone to get started and stay involved.The Rails Foundation kicks off with one million dollars from @cookpad, @doximity, @fleetio, @github, @intercom, @procoretech, @Shopify, and @37signals to improve the documentation, education, marketing, and events in our ecosystem π rubyonrails.org/2022/11/14/theβ¦








