10 ways people are (mis)using GitHub Pages for fun and profit

GitHub Pages may not quite be the Geocities of our generation, but that doesn't mean it's only used for technical documentation. With nearly a million sites, today, Github Pages hosts everything from APIs to White House policy. Hear from the GitHub Pages team about some of the more unique uses, and walk away with ten advanced tricks that can help improve your own content publishing workflow. No technical background necessary, but some familiarity with Jekyll and GitHub Pages recommended.

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1. ! 10 ways people are (mis)using GitHub Pages for fun and profit @benbalter
2. ! GitHub Pages is three things
3. User pages
4. Project pages
5. Organization pages
6. ! Not Geocities for our generation
7. ! Static is the new PHP
8. ! Every website produces 
 the same three things HTML Javascript CSS
9. ! CMSs generate bespoke pages
10. ! The only way to scale a dynamic site is to add more complexity
11. ! Treat content with the same respect that developers give to code
12. ! Collaborative content
13. ! Open source content
14. ! Publishing with GitHub Pages
15. ! 1. Push content to GitHub
16. ! 2. Content is published
17. ! the `gh-pages` branch
19. ! Template, meet content
20. ! How (not) to use GitHub Pages
21. 1. Collaborative content
22. ! https://github.com/ {{ site.github.repository_nwo }}/ edit/gh-pages/{{ page.path }}
26. 2. Continuous Integration
27. The GitHub blog
31. ! Pedantic robots > pedantic humans
32. 3. Collections
33. ! Not everything in the world 
 is a post or a page
36. 4. Data
37. ! Most restful APIs have predictable queries
38. ! GET /puppies/rover.json
40. ! _data YAML JSON CSV
41. ! _data/puppies.csv
42. ! site.data.puppies
43. ! for puppy in site.data.puppies
44. 5. Collaborative policymaking
51. 6. Branded profiles
52. Startups twitter.github.io yelp.github.io
53. netflix.github.io adobe.github.io
54. Tech Giants sap.github.io ibm.github.io microsoft.github.io
55. ! {% for repository in site.github.public_repositories %} * [{{ repository.name }}]({{ repository.html_url }}) {% endfor %}
56. 7. Private sites
59. 8. Documentation
60. ! 140 contributors 
 (~300 GitHubbers)
62. ! https://help.github.com/ search/search.json
64. 9. Automated publishing
66. ! `git add && git commit && git push` GitHub CRUD API benbalter/change_agent PUT api.github.com/repos/users/benbalter/contents/some-file.md agent.set “foo”, “bar”
67. 10. Client-side applications
70. Getting started pages.github.com help.github.com/pages github.com/showcases/open-source-organizations
71. ! 10 ways people are (mis)using GitHub Pages for fun and profit @benbalter