August API and Webhooks Community Check-in 🍎

[ghostinhershell]

August salutations! Reporting in for our next API and Webhooks Community Check-In ✅

🧠​​ Pros in the Community

Let’s put a spotlight on the top 5 community contributors, in this category, over the last 30 days 🏆

1. @byrneh	2. @nirav-gajera	3. @LangLangBart	4. @utkarsha-ubale-sp	5. @zunda-pixel

Remember to thank these and other community members that take the time to comment and help troubleshoot these problems. An acknowledgement of a job well done can have an incredible effect and make someone’s day. ☀️ We’re here to learn, discover and connect so try and mark a comment as an answer if suitable, give a thank you and select a reaction as a way to show your appreciation!

👏 Big Kudos to these Superstar Community Contributors

• Shoutout to @LangLangBart for teaching us how to get the total issues count of repositories using github’s api
• Thank you @Yash-Dobariya for teaching community members the difference between webhooks and using GitHub Apps
• Last but certainly not least, shoutout to @nirav-gajera and the original poster, @guizmaii for coming together and finding an answer to the question: Do webhook events contain a timestamp? How can I know if an event has been emitted before another one?

For community members who post questions, marking responses that solves your question as the answer goes a long way. When you mark a comment in the Discussion as an answer, GitHub will highlight the comment and replies to the comment to help other community members quickly find the answer as well:

Alt Text: The image above is a screenshot showing where users can click to mark a response as the answer.

🗞️What’s New?

• 🪐Universe 2023: Are you ready for it? - Universe 2023 tickets are now available at a super-early bird discount! Learn more about Universe. Build for today, transform for tomorrow at GitHub Universe 2023: Read our blogpost to get even more excited about Universe 2023.
• Your Feedback at Work - Our GitHub teams responded to you, the community, when members were seeing an issue where Github App Installation Setup URL does not preserve state query parameters. A fix was deployed for the issue, you can learn more here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/61291#discussioncomment-6501848. This is an awesome example that your voice is heard, we share your feedback and we act to better the platform that you love! ❤️
• New rate limit is coming for the audit log API endpoints - Recognizing the audit log API's importance as a data source to enterprises, each audit log API endpoint will impose a rate limit of 15 queries per minute per enterprise or org starting August 1st, 2023.
• Dependency Graph, Dependabot Alerts, and Advisory Database now support Swift advisories - Starting today, you will now receive Dependabot alerts for vulnerabilities associated with your Swift dependencies.
• Group Dependabot Version Updates by Development or Production Dependencies - If you are using the Dependabot grouped version updates feature (currently in public beta), you can now group your pull requests by dependency type in ecosystems that support this.

💡Inspiration Station

Fresh content to give you new ideas!

• Bridging code and community - Explore the impact of non-code contributions—and why they are often undervalued, the challenges of using open source in regulated environments, and the art of managing projects at scale.
• (De)coding conventions - Another piece from The READMe Project on navigating the ebb and flow of programming paradigms–from the shifts in the JavaScript ecosystem and TypeScript's rise, to AI's role in advancing accessibility, and strategies for encouraging non-code contributions.
• Developer experience: What is it and why should you care? - Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.

📖 Open Source Resources

New to open source? Here are some resources to help you get started:

• Did you hear? GitHub is now home to 100 million developers and counting 🎉Here’s a look at Open Source’s Impact on the World’s 100 Million Developers.
• Want to start contributing to open source projects? Here’s how to find projects that need help so you can start making impactful contributions today 🏗️
• Did you know that GitHub’s Docs are open source? 📖 Interested in contributing to GitHub’s Docs? Here are a handful of article updates that you can tackle:
  • GraphQL errors, and especially rate limit errors, are not documented
  • Transferring ownership article(s) should contain pointers to how/where transfer request can be approved
• Are you or do you know a college student interested in open source? All In for Students is an online program for college students from underrepresented backgrounds that provides open source education, training, and internship opportunities. They’re doing really cool things, check it out!
• Public APIs: Ever needed to find a free API for your next project, website, or app? Check out the Public APIs Repository

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A very big thank you to everyone in the community who actively contributes thoughts and answers to the questions that come into the API and Webhooks category. Looking forward to seeing more Community contributions to come!

[ghostinhershell]

Hey there 👋

Missed out on our last community check-in? You can check that out here: API & Webhooks: July Community Check-In 🌞