Building an army of robots

There's nothing quite like writing code to automate a task. It's like bottled satisfaction for coders. With that in mind, I want to introduce you to GitHub's army of robots. Robots to test our code and deploy. Robots to open doors. Robots to play our music. Robots to record videos of presenters. Robots to serve us beer.

Robots improve quality of life. Robots remove the separation between programmers and designers. They replace managers and large QA departments. They ensure GitHub continues to be a company full of hackers.

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1. Building an army of
   robots
   

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2. I’m Kyle Neath
   On the interwebs @kneath
   

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3. I’m Director of Design
   I work at GitHub. It’s a tech thing.
   

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4. Mostly, I discuss features
   write code
   sketch
   design
   

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5. 2009 201
   

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6. 2010 201
   

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7. 2011 201
   

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8. NOW June 8, 2012
   

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9. Mission: Take over the world
   Let’s build the best company in the world
   

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10. does  robot  work
    Illustrations by @broccolini
    

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11. USB 12 NANO CONNECTOR
    HIGH EFFICIENCY
    INSERT/RETRACT POLYMER
    VISUAL ACQUISITION SENSOR
    1M DPI RETINAL TRANSCEIVER WITH
    HIGH FIDELITY SQUIGGLY LINE OUTPUT
    OBJECT ACQUISITION DEVICE
    3,000,000 PSI
    “DEATH PROOF” CLAW ARM
    EXTERNAL INPUT TERMINAL
    PREDICTIVE LOGIC
    MINI QUERTY TECHNOLOGY
    PLASMA ARM
    HYPOTHETICAL TERMINUS
    POINT RETENTION TECHNOLOGY
    

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12. Hubot load fe
    memcache evict
    image me
    

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14. Hubot
    load fe
    memcache evict
    image me
    

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16. Hubot
    load fe
    memcache evict
    image me
    

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18. Hubot
    load fe
    memcache evict
    image me
    play thermonuclear war
    

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19. Hubot deploy
    Any app. Any branch. Production or staging.
    

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20. Anyone can deploy
    

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21. Everyone does deploy
    

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22. Hubot auto-deploy
    Starting to get complicated…
    

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23. Did the tests pass?
    Is your branch up to date?
    Is someone using production?
    

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24. That’s what robots are for
    Doing computer work so I don’t have to
    

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26. janky
    monitors
    app-perf
    groceries
    heaven
    team
    haystack
    kod
    office me
    play
    coalminer
    halp
    

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27. github’s internal tools
    introducing
    

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51. … and so many more
    

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52. increase your potential for
    building rad shit
    TOOLS
    

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53. Network Ops
    Business
    Executive
    Copywriter
    Visual Designer
    UX Designer
    Sysadmin
    Assembly Hacker
    Kernel
    Hacker
    Mac
    Developer
    Marketer
    

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54. This is your potential
    How do you want to spend it?
    Proficient
    Mastered
    

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55. 1997
    I want to be a master
    Mac Developer
    Mastered
    

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56. 1997
    I want to be a master
    Visual Designer
    Mastered
    

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57. 1997
    I want to be a proficient
    Visual Designer
    and play around as a
    Mac Developer
    Proficient
    

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58. 2012
    I want to be a master
    Visual Designer
    and a proficient
    Mac Developer
    Proficient
    Mastered
    TOOLS
    and a proficient
    Marketer!
    and learn me some
    Unix!
    

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59. Our internal tools
    level up the whole company
    

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60. No managers
    No top-down “vision”
    No core hours
    No mandatory meetings
    No conference calls
    

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61. GitHub’s tools prevent chaos and give
    power to employees
    

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62. Our internal tools
    scale our business
    

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63. Our internal tools adapt
    Because that’s what software does
    

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64. But, what if we didn’t build these
    tools?
    

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65. become the culture
    internal TOOLS
    

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66. You should deploy
    MR. MANAGER
    

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67. deploy github to production
    HUBOT
    

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68. Everyone does deploy
    

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69. You need to run tests!
    MR. MANAGER
    

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70. Kyle, your branch has failing tests. I
    can’t deploy it right now.
    HUBOT
    

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71. Everyone does care about tests
    

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72. We’re a distributed company
    MR. MANAGER
    

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73. Everyone is distributed
    

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74. We’re an idea centered company
    MR. MANAGER
    

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75. GHTeam::Idea.count
    => 238
    

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76. No, we are an idea centered
    company
    

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77. Building software makes me happy
    

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78. Common sense scales companies
    

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79. To us, building internal tools was
    common sense
    

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80. Internal tools are the DNA of software
    companies
    Don’t look at them as wasted effort
    

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82. Internal tools
    can be beautiful
    

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83. “If you want a golden rule that will t everything,
    this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do
    not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
    William Morris
    

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85. Surround yourself with beautiful
    software
    

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