The Open and Async audiobook is out. It's read by a synthetic narrator who says 'jif,' correctly. For the hard-G crowd who insist that's heresy, I re-recorded an entire chapter in their (wrong) pronun...

The ebook meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 Level AA) because the format wouldn't let me fake a heading and a browser audits every build, not because anyone scheduled a week for...

Learn how async-first communication transforms remote engineering culture and developer productivity. Ben Balter, open source governance expert, shares practical strategies for building transparent, d...

Open source has been running the world's largest distributed work experiment for decades. Here's what it got right about distributed collaboration — and how open source contributors can bring those sk...

In thirteen years at GitHub I was part of 25 reorgs—almost one every six months. Reorgs are a constant in tech, not a crisis. Here's how to navigate them.

The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams. Drawing on a decade at GitHub, this book shows you how to thrive—not just survive—in distributed work.

A meeting without an agenda is like calling a function without documentation. Please don't send meeting invites without one.

When I joined GitHub in 2013, I found a company that had fundamentally rethought how work happens. Thirteen years later, the lessons from that experiment are more relevant than ever.

An AI-powered GitHub Action that helps moderate community interactions by enforcing contributing guidelines and codes of conduct. - benbalter/ai-community-moderator

I've long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.

How a WWII field manual can help modern knowledge workers identify those inadvertently sabotaging your organization today.

How to set up a free and open-source grammar, style, and spell checker that can be run locally on your machine without sending data to a third-party services like Grammarly, preserving the privacy of ...

By naturally capturing and exposing process and sharing it as widely as is appropriate for the subject matter, URLs render organizational context time and location agnostic allowing knowledge to move more freely within an organization on an asynchronous, discoverable, and opt-in basis.

Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently, because asynchronous communication involves less frequent, but richer communication, meaning there is less time talking about the work and more time doing it, allowing the system to optimize for throughput and flow.

Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we’re excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family – geographic data. Any .geojson file in a…

When working as a distributed team, be mindful of cultural differences, time zones, encouraging breaks between meetings, and connecting as humans.

When authoring a pull request, use the body as an opportunity to document the proposed change, especially the “why”, and cross link any related issues or other PRs to create a trail of breadcrumbs for future contributors.

GitHub isn’t just for software developers. If you’re in a non-technical role, you can use GitHub to follow along, collaborate with your team, track your work, and share information. This brief guide includes everything you need to know to get started confidently with GitHub.

GitHub isn’t just for software developers. If you’re in a non-technical role, you can use GitHub to follow along, collaborate with your team, track your work, and share information. This brief guide includes everything you need to know to get started confidently with GitHub.

If issues, pull requests, and project boards are the best way to develop software, should they not also be the best way to manage software development?

How I used Docker Compose, Ansible, and Caddy to re-over-engineer my UniFi Dream Machine, PiHole/AdGuard Home, and Cloudflare-based home network for ease of setup, maintenance, and management.

How to implement 404 - not found pages for Jekyll and GitHub pages that automatically suggest similar URLs to the one requested based on your site’s sitemap.xml.

We're excited to announce that we're open sourcing our Identity and Access Management solution: Entitlements.

Asynchronous work allows for remote work that’s enjoyable and that actually works. Async increases inclusivity, produces better outcomes faster, encourages discoverability and permanence of context, creates space for learning, shifts knowledge workers to higher value work, improves work-life balance, empowers distributed teams, and enables parallelization and flow.