Stupid Microsoft Github Trick Of The Week

I’ve got er a few repositories on Microsoft Github. It’s mostly just teensy things that I’ve pushed out there because why not? But there’s a couple of things that are generally useful.

Anyway, I’m not really paying attention to issues being opened much. That is, I read them, and then my “notifications” tab look like this:

And so I forget about it all.

But yesterday I was extra super bored, so I wondered — didn’t I have some open issues on some of these repos?

So I clicked “issues”, and:

Nothing? Uhm. And none of those alternatives in the menu are applicable — there’s nothing to click to say “list all the open issues in all my repos”, apparently. Which seems like such an obvious thing to want to have listed.

Brilliant UX all around, Microsoft guys.

So I Googled, and other people have been asking the same, and you have to do a bit of typing:

state:open user:@me

Yes, user:@me is apparently the clue to get “issues from all my repositories”. 🤷‍♀️

So now you know. Here’s the handy link to bookmark.

What? You’re asking whether I did indeed have any open issues?

Not that many. And only going back to 2015! That’s nothing.

Sorry to the people waiting for a response for a decade. It’s all Microsoft’s fault!

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