As a commercial software developer, my day-to-day work for the last several years has involved working on closed-source software on private GitLab and BitBucket repositories, but that doesn’t mean GitHub has become a stranger to me.

I still spend a good portion of each week on the GitHub website, both for hosting my own personal repositories and looking into open source projects’ code, issues and documentation.

GitHub’s user experience is already pretty great and has only been getting better and better since Microsoft purchased it last year. That said, there are still a few things that are a bit lacklustre and could be improved — but that’s where browser extensions come in!

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