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You can also change any GitHub repo URL to flatgithub.com[1] to open any JSON/CSV file inside the repo in a table with useful visualisations (e.g. https://flatgithub.com/the-pudding/data — you can change the file by clicking on "Data File" at the top).

It's part of the Flat Data[2] work that GitHub Next[3] has been exploring.

[1] https://flatgithub.com [2] https://next.github.com/projects/flat-data/ [3] https://next.github.com

My favourite less-known GitHub feature is adding `.keys` or `.gpg` to a username will return the user's public SSH keys (or GPG keys).

Which is the source of some dumb deanonymization exploits!

github isn't the place to be an anonymized user imo.

or just don't use the same keys for everything

A PGP-signed message is antithesis of anonymity.

You can also see a commit in a git patch format by adding “.patch” or “.diff” to a commit url.

You can also add `.png` to a username to retrieve the user's avatar, e.g. https://github.com/carlos-menezes.png

Woah. Thanks! That's actually weirdly really useful to know for my "internal dev tools" hackathon projects.

They also have a GeoJSON visualizer.

https://github.com/leaflet-maps-course/resources/blob/33fef0...

pleasant way to display scraped content