GitHub Primer

Inspired by a comment on my post Visualising edit history of a Wikipedia page, the code I use to make history flow diagrams like the one below is now in GitHub at https://github.com/rdmpage/wikihistoryflow.There is also a live version at http://iphylo.org/~rpage/wikihistoryflow.

Es una estrategia muy eficiente generar una lista de ideas en GitHub como lo hicieron Daniel Mietchen primero (https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/ideas) y Tiago Lubiano después (https://github.com/lubianat/ideas). Ambos hacen cosas muy interesantes de bioinformación y publican grandes ideas que son una buena inspiración para lo que hago.

Donald Hobern drew my attention to nice the way iNaturalist displays taxonomic splits: In this example, observations identified as Rhipidura fuliginosa are being split into Rhipidura fuliginosa and Rhipidura albiscapa . This immediately reminds me of the idea which keeps circulating around, namely using version control tools to manage taxonomic classification.

The imageis the Github logo.

Quarto makes it very easy to publish a website via GitHub Pages: It is as simple as running quarto publish gh-pages. Here we explore a slightly different method that uses a GitHub Action to publish the website automatically every time it is updated. Classic GitHub Pages The classic way to publish a website via GitHub pages is to maintain a separate branch gh-pages.