benbalter
Director of Engineering Operations and Culture @GitHub. Previously @GitHub Trust & Safety and @WhiteHouse Presidential Innovation Fellow.
@GitHubWashington, DC
Pinned Repositories
github-mention-highlighter
A Chrome extension that automatically highlights any time you are mentioned on a GitHub issue or pull request thread by highlighting your username, any team you're a member of, and the border of any containing comment.
jekyll-auth
A simple way to use GitHub OAuth to serve a protected Jekyll site to your GitHub organization
jekyll-remote-theme
Jekyll plugin for building Jekyll sites with any GitHub-hosted theme
word-to-markdown
A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents
word_diff
Word Diff empowers you to be a Markdown person in a Microsoft Word world by automatically converting any Word document committed to a GitHub repo to Markdown
wordpress-to-jekyll-exporter
One-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Jekyll (or Hugo or any other Markdown and YAML based site engine).
choosealicense.com
A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
jekyll
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
jekyll-admin
A Jekyll plugin that provides users with a traditional CMS-style graphical interface to author content and administer Jekyll sites.
licensee
A Ruby Gem to detect under what license a project is distributed.
benbalter's Repositories
benbalter/geojson-diff
A Ruby library for diffing GeoJSON files
benbalter/dc-wifi-social
A collaborative list of DC locations that serve up both Internet and Alcohol
benbalter/markdown_to_word
Converts GitHub-flavored Markdown to a Word document
benbalter/open-source-alternatives
A collaborative list of open-source alternatives to typical government and enterprise software needs
benbalter/WP-Resume
Out-of-the-box solution to get your resume online. Built on WordPress's custom post types, it offers a uniquely familiar approach to publishing
benbalter/ra11y
Ruby-based automated accessibility testing
benbalter/2016-campaign-tech
An entirely unofficial look at the technology stacks of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns
benbalter/open-source-for-government
A collaborative resource for government employees looking to participate in the open source community
benbalter/Plugin-Boilerplate
benbalter/open_source_stats
A quick script to generate metrics about the contribution your organization makes to the open source community in a 24-hour period
benbalter/so_far_so_good
A Ruby Gem to parse and manipulate the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
benbalter/hubot-webscale
A web-sockets based Hubot adapter to allow Hubot to be embedded in a website at webscale.
benbalter/dc-address-parser
Parses and normalizes Washington, DC street addresses according to the DC Master Address Repository (MAR) standard
benbalter/jekyll-accessibility-template
Jekyll Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and §508 accessibility information template
benbalter/pages-toggle-bookmarklet
A bookmarklet to toggle between GitHub Pages site and source
benbalter/dc-address-lookup
A Ruby gem to look up Washington, D.C. addresses in the master address registry (MAR), an official city database
benbalter/digital-strategy-reporting
Presentation for Drupal4Gov -- 8/29/2012
benbalter/dotgov-browser
A WIP effort to figure out what technology powers .govs and how it's changed
benbalter/humans.rb
A Ruby gem for parsing humans.txt files
benbalter/millennials-to-kids-these-days
Browser extension that replaces occurrences of "Millennials" with "kids these days"
benbalter/peer_review
Validates whether a given email, url, or domain belongs to a research institution.
benbalter/vangogh
A Ruby Gem for abstracting numbers
benbalter/benbalter.com
Redirect benbalter.com to ben.balter.com
benbalter/git-lfs
Git extension for versioning large files
benbalter/is-pennsylvania-avenue-closed
Crowd sources whether pedestrians can walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House
benbalter/jekyll-commonmark
CommonMark generator for Jekyll
benbalter/picasa
Simple google picasa management
benbalter/powered-by-pages
A Chrome extension to tell you when a website is hosted on GitHub Pages
benbalter/semver.org
Semantic Versioning spec and website
benbalter/welcome
Information on the GitHub maintainer community