{"id":1535,"date":"2011-12-27T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2017-05-10T08:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:15:36","slug":"whoa-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1535","title":{"rendered":"Whoa, GitHub!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new fork in my life &#8212; at the beginning of December, I started full-time work as a Support octocat at GitHub.com. I still haven&#8217;t come up with an easy way to describe GitHub for those not in the techy world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bypass what it does, and tell you about what I&#8217;m doing there. Like any big company with a well-used website, GitHub gets a lot of questions. You know when you find the Help link, or you email support@thewebsiteyou&#8217;relookingat.com? I&#8217;m one of the people who answers all those questions &#8212; from &#8220;I lost my password&#8221; to &#8220;How do I remove a repo from a watched list?&#8221;. There are questions we get that I&#8217;m unable to answer, because my technical abilities just don&#8217;t encompass much more than some weak computer programming skills. BUT, what I am awesome at is replying to people&#8217;s questions in a way that makes them feel listened to, and cared for.<\/p>\n<p>One of the awesome things about the GitHub community (and there is a community &#8212; GitHub lets anyone host their open-source code for free, so there are lots of people who work together to make awesome code for the betterment of everyone) is that most everyone is a software developer, so the collective sense of humor tends to skew towards Interne Nerd. &#8220;Like what?&#8221;, you ask.<\/p>\n<p>When it was <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/991-sonya-green-is-a-githubber\">announced on the GitHub blog that I&#8217;d joined them<\/a>, someone quickly checked out this blog, noticed the photo of 80 and I on the bike, and altered it to <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/deal-with-it\">fit a popular meme<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the concept of a meme, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meme\">read here<\/a>. Suffice to say, I feel cozy and at home in this awesome GitHub world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a248.e.akamai.net\/assets.github.com\/img\/3af82c6ca48ef47c6a1c6ba6891c45ff2b32f2b5\/687474703a2f2f6934342e74696e797069632e636f6d2f323932626b676a2e676966\" alt=\"Deal with 80\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new fork in my life &#8212; at the beginning of December, I started full-time work as a Support octocat at GitHub.com. I still haven&#8217;t come up with an easy way to describe GitHub for those not in the techy world. I&#8217;ll bypass what it does, and tell you about what I&#8217;m doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-githubberness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}