Leveling up on GitHub: Tips + Tricks for Beginners to...
summary
Shows concrete GitHub workflows and tools: a profile that updates every five minutes, editing in the browser with github.dev editor, full cloud development via CodeSpaces devcontainer.json with port forwarding, CLI and Desktop tooling, CI via GitHub Actions with 18,000 actions in the marketplace, local testing with act, Copilot/CodeWhisperer autocomplete, and security features that surface dependency vulns and will even delete exposed tokens when found.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00GitHub introduction
- 2:27Customize GitHub profile
- 5:56GitHub beyond code
- 7:20Manage GitHub projects
- 8:43GitHub CLI tips
- 9:46GitHub Desktop workflows
- 10:29Edit files in browser
- 12:38GitHub extensions
- 14:23GitHub Codespaces intro
- 17:36Dev containers setup
- 18:19GitHub Actions automation
- 27:48Issue tracking templates
- 29:33Debug GitHub Actions
- 31:17GitHub Copilot
- 35:25GitHub Advanced Security
- 39:14GitHub tips summary
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