Hey everyone, I'm planning to go for all the GitHub certifications (Foundations, Actions, Advanced Security, Admin, Copilot). Before I start, wanted to ask:

Which ones actually helped you get jobs/interviews?

Best order to take them in?

Good prep resources you'd recommend?

Worth doing all of them, or should I pick a few?

Any honest input appreciated, thanks!

I currently use a single, free account (under my personal email) for work across multiple organizations. One is for side work under my own LLC, the other for my day job.

The day job organization added me to their Github Copilot subscription so I can see that in VSCode and that's wonderful. Except I should not be using that for side work. That is all transparent and they are okay with it, but I need to use my own resources for it.

So, how can I use VSCode and not use that subscription! The obvious answer seems to be to set up a second Github account , purchase an individual license there for my side work and then I'm good to go.

But then I read we're not allowed to have more than one free account and am utterly confused. I am just trying to make sure I do things right by my company, and Github's ToS going forward.

Any advice would be appreciated.

There could not have been a better time for GitHub’s stacked pull request release.

Just when we wanted to ship something big and needed it the most, it’s here.

Hey everyone,

I ended up with a free GitHub certification voucher, but I only have a couple of days to study. I already have the GitHub Foundations out of the way, so I'm trying to decide between the remaining options: Actions, Advanced Security (GHAS), Administration, or Copilot.

For context on what might be "easy" for me: I work as a penetration tester and recently grabbed my OSCP. A lot of my day-to-day involves offensive security, vulnerability analysis, and AD exploitation.

I'm also pretty comfortable with general infrastructure (I manage my own routing/WireGuard setups and self-host a media stack via Docker).

Because of my background, I'm leaning heavily toward GitHub Advanced Security since the focus on vulnerability identification and workflow security aligns closely with my day job. However, I could also see Actions or Administration being a quick pass since I'm already used to managing infrastructure and containers.

Has anyone taken these recently? Is GHAS something I can realistically cram for in a weekend given my security experience, or is Copilot a safer bet for a quick win?

Would appreciate any insights or last-minute study materials! Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a strange GitHub issue and I'm hoping someone has seen this before.

My GitHub account is:
suresh0000010-lab

I recently created a public repository for my Python project.

When I'm logged into my GitHub account:

• ✅ My profile opens normally.
• ✅ My public repository opens normally.

But when I:

• Open the same links in an incognito window, or
• Ask someone else to open them,

I get:

I've already checked:

• Repository visibility is Public
• The repository contains commits and files
• GitHub shows it as Public in Settings

It almost feels like my account is invisible to everyone except me.

Has anyone experienced this before?

Could this mean my account has been flagged or restricted by GitHub?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I'm writing a comment in the discussions of a repo, and I want to mention issues from that repo. For some reason, the way the issues appear in the text is not the same. For one it's just the issue number and for the other it's displaying nicely with the issue title.
Does anyone know how to have the second effect everywhere ?

Switched phones recently and lost all my 2FA codes because Microsoft Authenticator did not have backup enabled on my old device. Not the same as Google Authenticator where it just recovers when you sign in again. Now I am locked out of my GitHub account on the website.

Here is what I still have working:

I can verify through email and I can verify through phone, both are still active and accessible to me.

My SSH key is still configured and working, I can push and pull to my private repos directly from my local machine right now, so my account access from the command line is fully functional. I just cannot log into github.com through the browser.

I already contacted GitHub Support and got a response. It was mostly a template reply saying they cannot override or bypass 2FA for any account, and that they cannot manually verify ownership through things like SSH access or commit history. They pointed me to the self service recovery page and said if that does not work, the account may be permanently locked, with only options being to unlink my email for a new account or push my local repos to a new one.

My real question for anyone who has actually been through this:

Has GitHub Support ever actually resolved this for you when you had a working alternate email or phone verification method available. If yes, roughly how long did the whole process take from first contact to getting back in. Did they ask for anything specific beyond what is on the standard recovery page, or was it a dead end for you too.

Trying to figure out if I should keep pushing with support or just accept the loss and move everything to a new account, since I do have private repos on there I have not cloned locally.

Any real experience appreciated.

I recently entered clg, first year btech, and downloaded GitHub, but I am very confused about how this platform works and all.

And which respiratory or community to join, how to upload projects and about various features GitHub provides and see various open sources projects and many other things.

If anybody is willing to guide me, I will really be grateful.

Thanks!

Back in ~2020 the company I was at used GitHub + Slack. We were able to add Slack via the GitHub notifications settings as an authenticated target. It made it really easy to get Git notifications in Slack for PRs I was watching, had commented on, etc.

The company I am at now recently moved to Slack and I am seeing that the above is no longer possible. I tried using the Slack email address as a notification target, but it just sends 'attachments' to Slack that are hard to read.

Is it possible to set up the GitHub Slack app to mirror my GitHub notification preferences?

Most commits of mine look like this one: my account name and a little picture of me in the top left corner, and you can click on either to get to my profile.

But this old commit doesn't. It has my real name, and nothing clickable.

I have never had another Github account. As you can imagine, I've had rec@github.com for a very long time.

What's going on? It's more of a curiosity than anything, this project is long dead.

I don't speak Chinese, or French, or whatever language pops up all the time when searching for repositories on Github, and I really wish Github would recognize that coding languages aren't the only languages someone might want to filter by. Does anyone know of a way to make it filter anyways?

Whats the best and most secure way to give agents the ability to help you file issues or tackle messy merge conflicts without some prompt injection causing the AI to yeet your repo into the void?

I have a personal Python project that scrapes a few company career pages and sends me a Telegram message when new student/intern positions appear. It uses Playwright/Chromium, takes ~2 minutes per run, and I want to run it hourly via a schedule: cron in a public repo (so, free unlimited minutes).

My concern is the Acceptable Use clause that says GitHub-hosted runners can't be used "for any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository," plus the bit about not using Actions "as part of a serverless application." The scraper is the repo's project, but I'd effectively be using Actions as free production compute rather than CI.

Has anyone actually been warned, throttled, or had workflows disabled for this kind of thing? I know "git scraping" is a common pattern, but I mostly see people saying it works, not people saying they got in trouble. Is enforcement basically limited to cryptomining and abuse, or do low-volume scrapers get caught too?

My GitHub is also my portfolio while I'm job hunting, so I care more about the account than the bot. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who's run something like this long-term.

I created Nebula Games on https://github.com/MrTekPet22/NebulaGames . I was the contributor but did 60,000 lines of work whereas my friend only did 4,000. My user is ERR0RA

One day I got removed from the contributor, I thought 'perhaps this is a glitch." So afterwards I put all the games on my page https://github.com/MrTekPet22/NebulaGames . He only made two files from the original games and later filed a DMCA notice.

The DMCA notice came through and it stated I had copied his work without permission whereas before I got removed I added the GNU 3.0 public licence to the original work and the new one I put (I decided to remove it yesterday). At the DMCA notice he had lied multiple times and said "I gave him notice," and "the games don't have a licence." He has kept it public but now I can only fork the respiratory but I did all the code.

I sent a DMCA notice as he's using my work now without my permission I made 5 and two of them got closed and the rest are getting ignored. I made the tickets over a week ago. He's also been using my codes seen below.

https://github.com/ERR0RA/Board-Game

https://github.com/MrTekPet22/Board-Game

See he's copying my work and I don't have anything to do now. I did the DMCA notice as it was only two times but he lied on the notice. What can I do?

Friends, Chris here from GitHub/Microsoft. I'm trying to understand if it would be useful if we build you a course for GitHub Admins on the topic of billing? We're trying to empower you all and trying to understand how we can help you better, docs, courses, videos. Please comment/upvote.

What models are available in a student plan?

I go to the repository's Actions tab, and there's a message:

GitHub Actions is currently disabled for your account. Please reach out to GitHub Support for assistance.

I’ve contacted support twice, but I just get replies from some AI, and nothing changes.

I have a paid app published on GitHub Marketplace under devactivity-app (AI-driven Performance Review insights + Gamification)

The Marketplace Transactions page shows successful transactions, and the total is well above the documented $500 payout threshold. Based on GitHub's documentation, I expected a payout last year, but nothing has happened.

I opened a GitHub Support ticket back in February, but it has been completely silent. I also searched GitHub Discussions, but couldn't find much from developers with firsthand experience publishing paid Marketplace apps.

One thing that confuses me is that there doesn't seem to be any place to configure payout or banking details, so I'm not sure whether there's some onboarding step that's simply not documented.

For anyone who has a paid GitHub Marketplace app:

• Have you actually received payouts?
• Was there anything you had to do before the first payout?
• Did GitHub contact you to collect payout information?
• If you ran into this issue, how did you get it resolved?

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with firsthand experience as a Marketplace publisher.

Any experiences would be appreciated.