The Joy of Using GitHub/E
I really am amazed about the real joy in using GitHub. It's hard to imagine the vision they had... Let's take git, and then build an entire culture and eco-system around it - all in the browser! That's some vision. Yet this morning I was able to put targeted comments on the lines of a pull-request with syntax-highlighted examples, and see it all in preview mode. It made me smile. This kind of attention to detail is really inspirational to me.
It's more than source control - it's workflow... collaboration - it's a wonderful framework with which to do group development - or personal development, for that matter. I really do enjoy working with it - even on really bad code. And the style... it's not always been perfect, and they have made some changes I might not agree with, but they have done it up to the nines. There is certainly no way someone is going to say they haven't sweated the details.
So even when I have to spend 30 mins making comments on code that should not have been written, I'm happy that I'm doing it in GitHub. What a great tool!