What are ways to improve how you’re using GitHub? How can you collaborate more effectively and improve your technical writing? This week on the show, Adam Johnson is back to talk about his new book, “Boost Your GitHub DX: Tame the Octocat and Elevate Your Productivity”. Adam has written a series of books about improving developer experience (DX). In this episode, we dig into his newest book, which focuses on GitHub and how to get the most out of its features—from settings and keyboard shortcuts to hidden tools, CLI commands, and the command palette. Adam also shares insights on the best ways to communicate on the platform. We discuss the nuances of GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM), best practices for effective communication in open source, the importance of maintaining civility in issue reports, and why he included a glossary of acronyms to help developers decode common shorthand like LGTM and FTFY. This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger. Course Spotlight: Introduction to Git and GitHub for Python Developers What is Git, what is GitHub, and what’s the difference? Learn the basics of Git and GitHub from the perspective of a Pythonista in this step-by-step video course. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:20 – Why the focus on developer experience? 00:03:41 – Process of writing the book 00:06:26 – Filling in the gaps of knowledge 00:11:52 – GitHub-Flavored Markdown 00:16:00 – Sponsor: Honeybadger 00:16:47 – Acronym glossary 00:25:18 – GitHub command palette 00:28:35 – What questions did you want to answer? 00:29:42 – Whether to cover Copilot or not 00:36:14 – Video Course Spotlight 00:37:50 – Advice on working with coding agents 00:40:46 – Defining the scope 00:48:07 – GitHub pages and codespaces 00:50:46 – Finding the hidden features 00:51:53 – Data-oriented Django series 00:53:59 – How to find the book 00:54:51 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:57:27 – What do you want to learn next? 00:58:00 – How can people follow your work online? 00:58:22 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: Adam Johnson’s Website Boost Your GitHub DX Boost Your Git DX GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) Spec GitHub CLI (gh) GitHub Command Palette - GitHub Docs Keyboard shortcuts - GitHub Docs GitHub’s Guide on Writing Great Issues GitHub Pull Request Templates GitHub Pages GitHub Codespaces Data-Oriented Django - DjangoCon 2022 - YouTube