The objective behind using GitHub Issues in this way is to separate internal conversations from time and space. While it’s not the only tool they use, GitHub Issues often replaces email when it comes to internal discussion. GitHub - both the product and the company - embraces asynchronous communication, which puts Steve and other GitHub employees in the fortunate position of being able to use their own product for that communication. As a permanently remote employee, he relies on specific tools to communicate, stay on task, and get stuff done. On any given day, Steve could be guiding an integrator as they embark on a brand new GitHub integration, working with a partner to help scale their GitHub API usage, developing Open Source resources to demonstrate GitHub platform features, such as the recently announced GitHub Actions, and just generally staying responsive to the needs of GitHub’s ever-growing ecosystem of integrators. Steve has helped partners - including Microsoft, Google, a swath of independent developers, and of course, Sentry - launch integrations on top of GitHub. Steve Winton is a Partner Engineer at GitHub, which means that he helps GitHub integrators and partners create the best possible integrated developer experience between their products for their shared customers, leveraging the GitHub platform.
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If you have inline code blocks, wrap them in backticks: var example = true.You probably use many tools to get you through the day. There are many different ways to style code with GitHub's markdown. The finest organic suspension ever devised. If you'd like to quote someone, use the > character before the line:Ĭoffee. You can use one # all the way up to # six for different heading sizes. Multiple # in a row denote smaller heading sizes. Sometimes it's useful to have different levels of headings to structure your documents.
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