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...

PDF Filler is a RESTful service (API) to aid in the completion of existing PDF-based forms and empowers web developers to use browser-based forms and modern web standards to facilitate the collecti...

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.

Publish to the ATmosphere via standard.site lexicons. A site.standard.publication record is served from /.well-known/site.standard.publication with a matching homepage link tag, and each post carri...

Engineering leadership, open source, and showing your work

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 ...

Trust and safety (abuse protection) is a critical part of your product, and it’s a cost of doing business on the internet. It’s a hidden “internet tax” that you’ll need to pay, whether you want to or ...

Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky

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.

One-click implementation of the New York Times open-source emphasis script for highlighting and permalinking text. - GitHub - benbalter/WP-Emphasis: One-click implementation of the New York Times ...

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.