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benbalter

311 karma · joined August 30, 2011

I wrote Licensee, the open source library behind GitHub's license detection, and led a bottom-up rewrite of GitHub Pages. Over 10 years at GitHub I was also a product manager for trust and safety, shipping 500+ features and the github.com API endpoints behind them. Today I'm a product leader for developer platforms and open source. Author of Open and Async. Also a lawyer (DC Bar) and former Presidential Innovation Fellow. https://ben.balter.com
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Documentation quality is your AI quality now

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How I over-engineered my book

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Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools

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No Agenda, No Meeting

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Practice Inclusive Scheduling

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Pull requests are a form of documentation

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Meetings are a point of escalation, not the starting point of a conversation

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Nine things a (technical) program manager does

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Resolutions for Sustaining and Growing Open Source Communities

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Use any theme with GitHub Pages

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SUPPORT file support on GitHub

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Open source license descriptions and metadata for GitHub repositories

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Behind GitHub's decision to standardize on one Markdown engine for GitHub Pages

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Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown

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The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub

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25 reasons why you should consume, publish, contribute to, and support open source

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Four characteristics of modern collaboration tools

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Contribute to OpenStreetMap from GitHub

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Speak like a human: 12 ways tech companies can write less-corporate blog posts

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Lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months

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What is an API? The federal government explains.

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