John Britton

Huge fan of what the team at Oso are building. I love when companies bundle up an entire feature (in this case authorization) in to a beautiful and convenient abstraction for developers. It makes our lives easier, makes us faster, and we’re less likely to make mistakes. I had the pleasure of having Sam from Oso as a guest on the Yes-code podcast a couple months back:...

I'm a fan and user of HoneyBadger.io and was surprised that their relatively new product Hook Relay hadn't been posted here yet. Hook Relay makes it easy for developers to offer top quality webhooks tooling to integrators without reinventing the wheel.

Classroom for Github automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments from students. Assignments are the core of Classroom for GitHub. Teachers can easily create an assignment and distribute it to students using a private invitation URL. Optional starter code can be provided for individual or group work. It's even...

> Is it secure? > Yes. Very. Everything runs over SSL, SMS's are impossible to intercept and they're easily deletable from the number dashboard. It may be true that the communications use SSL, and that it's not possible for an outsider to view the messages, but the claim on the homepage is a bit disingenuous. The statement "SMS's are impossible to intercept" is untrue. There's...

Does the app have data for road trips outside of the USA?

We're really excited to release the GitHub Student Developer Pack, giving students access to real tools to get the experience they need. It's been an absolute pleasure working with all of the partner companies.