Working with github

Links to support the Le Wagon's presentation

Commit to Commiting

• 📝 Write documents for your future self
  • TIL: Today I Learned
  • My first attempts:
    • my-notes
    • https://meleu.github.io
    • Exercism learnings
  • My current workflow:
    • https://obsidian.md
    • Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin
    • https://meleu.dev

Clean your Bio

• GitHub Profile README Generator - cool tool to kickstart you README profile
• https://github.com/abhisheknaiidu/awesome-github-profile-readme - a (huge) collection to get inspiration
• Alguns exemplos interessantes:
  • https://github.com/swyxio - big banner, description, stats, image
  • https://github.com/gautamkrishnar - text-based, emoji, gif
  • https://github.com/meleu - bullets and emojis
  • https://github.com/BrunnerLivio - funny retro style

Follow People

• https://github.com/

Clean Up Repos

• https://readme.so/
  • Title and Description
  • screenshot or gif (if applicable)
  • Installation
  • Basic usage
  • Lessons learned (if applicable)
  • Contributing
  • Running tests
  • Credits
  • License
• Awesome examples:
  • any project in https://github.com/charmbracelet

Clean your Commits

• https://www.conventionalcommits.org
• https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter

Try open-source

My path:

• started writing documentation
• then reporting bugs
• then making small contributions
• then making bigger contributions
• then creating projects from scratch

The main takeaway: mentoring from experienced people

Things to do if you're out of ideas

• Watch the Testing in Rails lecture and apply what you learned in your final project or the AirBnB clone
• Do Backend-challenges
• Do Frontend-challenges
• Choose a language on exercism.org, do the challenges and document you're learning
• Convert book code samples examples to Ruby (or your favorite language)
  • my attempt
    • 👆 this helped me to get my current job
    • you'll probably have access to the author

Last words

Learn in public!