Easiest is to just press `.` on the GitHub repo to open the GH dev environment

wait... WHAT!? how is such an amazing feature hidden behind some incredibly obscure keyboard shortcut? this completely changes how I'll explore Github.

what am I doing wrong. 'press . on the Github repo' ?

Just open the repository and type a dot on your keyboard. You don't need to select anything.

With the page open in your browser, press the "." key on your keyboard.

I'm really surprised I've never even discovered that accidentally. If nothing else, this is a vastly superior way to search a repository.

It was added about a year ago so it's fairly recent. Before this another group had made this same thing on a different website (turns out a big advantage of Electron apps is they can be converted to web apps without TOO much difficulty). With that one you'd just replace the domain of the URL with whatever that website was

Too bad there is no such thing as HN comment of the week, this would be it.

wtf! I had no idea this existed!