Appearances

These appearances are talks I gave, blog posts about products shipped or podcasts in which I participated.

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Oct 01, 2015
GitHub Integrations Directory

We shipped an Integrations directory for application makers on GitHub.
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Dec 09, 2014
Updated syntax highlighting theme

When we launched syntax highlighted diffs, we needed to rewrite our pygments processor because of the extra processing power that it required. This gave us the opportunity to rethink the theme. We redesigned the colors with readability in mind for red/green highlighted lines in diffs.
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Nov 11, 2013
GitHub's Explore Email

After shipping GitHub Trending, I had a lot of developers asking to be able to subscribe to the trending list. I created the explore email to give developers snapshots of activity daily, weekly or monthly.
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Aug 13, 2013
GitHub Trending

I shipped GitHub’s trending section designing and developing it. The trending section was the first of a number of improvement’s to GitHub’s explore sections of the site.
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May 06, 2013
GitHub Repository Search

After launching Global GitHub search, we focused our attention on updating repostory search, adding code search and issues search. I was the lead designer and front-end developer for this project.
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Mar 14, 2013
Non Breaking Space Show #30

I was invited to speak on the Non Breaking Space show about CSS performance. I was prompted because of a talk I gave on the subject.
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Jan 23, 2013
Global GitHub search

This was a complete update to GitHub’s global search page. We updated the backend to elastic search, and updated the UI including creating an advanced search page. I was the lead designer on all of these changes.
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Dec 05, 2012
GitHub's CSS Performance

A talk I gave at the 2012 CSS Dev conference about monitoring and fixing some performance problems on GitHub’s diff pages. I talked about lessons learned, tools used and rules for the future. The talk was also recorded.
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Aug 06, 2012
GitHub Notifications 2.0

I helped ship what was the second iteration of GitHub notifications. The focus of a lot of the work was around subscribing to threads and the web notifications view.
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Jul 21, 2012
The making of octicons

Gave a joint talk with Cameron McEfee about octicons at a cascade sf event. This was a talk focused specifically after we launched octicons.
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May 09, 2012
Say hello to octicons

This was a blog post introducing GitHub’s new icon font, Octicons. We did this because we wanted to make our site as HDpi as we could. Replacing the previous icon set with scallable ones was a win win.
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