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Mike McQuaid
September 19, 2019
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Being Productive at GitHub
Tips and tricks for being (more) productive at GitHub.
Mike McQuaid
September 19, 2019
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Transcript
Being Productive @ GitHub A ! " # Mike McQuaid
Mike McQuaid OSS Economy Engineer
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(links at the end)
less noise
⌚ unwatch repositories https://github.com/watching
leave teams https://github.com/orgs/github/teams?query=members%3Ame
filter your (email) notifications https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#settings/filters
review requests: review (ASAP) direct mentions: read author: read +
team mention: skim the rest: skim subjects
unblock your coworkers
⌛ review requested PRs (ASAP) https://github.com/pulls/review-requested
“request changes” on PRs sparingly
use deploy trains https://githubber.com/article/technology/dotcom/deploy/entrain
deploy deploy trains for others (bonus points if you live
in non-America timezones) 1
focus
2 (ideally) one PR at a time https://github.com/pulls
3 brew cask install quitter https://marco.org/apps
clump your meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r
decline some meetings https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r
…thanks! https://speakerdeck.com/mikemcquaid/being-productive-at-github https://github.blog/2017-07-18-managing-large-numbers-of-github-notifications/