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Ben Balter (@benbalter)

benbalter

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Location 🇺🇸 United States
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word-to-markdown

A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

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).

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

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.

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

gman

A ruby gem to check if the owner of a given email address or website is working for THE MAN (a.k.a verifies government domains).

dc-maps

Maps of Washington DC area public geodata

pi-hole-cloudflared-docker-compose-ansible-caddy

Example configuration for using Pi-Hole, Cloudflared, Docker Compose, Ansible, and Caddy to over-engineer your home network for privacy and security.

congressional-districts

Historic and current US Congressional districts as GeoJSON, versioned within Git

benbalter.github.com

The personal website of Ben Balter. Built using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. See humans.txt for more infos.

jekyll-relative-links

A Jekyll plugin to convert relative links to markdown files to their rendered equivalents

jekyll-include-cache

A Jekyll plugin to cache the rendering of Liquid includes

count-org-loc

Count total lines of code across a GitHub organization

github_records_archiver

Backs up a GitHub organization's repositories and all their associated information for archival purposes.

geojson-diff

A Ruby library for diffing GeoJSON files

jekyll-titles-from-headings

dc-wifi-social

A collaborative list of DC locations that serve up both Internet and Alcohol

jekyll-readme-index

A Jekyll plugin to render a project's README as the site's index.

site-inspector

Ruby Gem to sniff information about a domain's technology and capabilities.

markdown_to_word

Converts GitHub-flavored Markdown to a Word document

jekyll-optional-front-matter

A Jekyll plugin to make front matter optional for Markdown files

wordpress-plugin-tests

A Travis CI compatible unit testing for WordPress plugins that utilizes the WordPress core unit testing framework and PHPUnit

retlab

A minimalist Jekyll theme for your personal site

markdown-to-pdf

On demand generation of enterprise-grade PDFs from GitHub-hosted markdown files

word-to-markdown-server

A hosted version of the Word to Markdown gem

jekyll-style-guide

An opinionated guide to common Jekyll design patterns and anti-patterns.

github-forms

A RESTful API for submitting standard HTML form data to a GitHub-hosted CSV.

comment-card

A simple interface for non-technical users — both authenticated and pseudonymous — to provide feedback for your GitHub-hosted project

jekyll-default-layout

Silently sets default layouts for Jekyll pages and posts

jekyllbot

Listens for GitHub post-recieve service hooks messages, runs jekyll, and pushes the results back to GitHub.

problem_child

Allows authenticated or anonymous users to fill out a standard web form to create GitHub issues (and pull requests).

zoom-launcher

A command line tool for joining your next Zoom meeting.

open-source-alternatives

A collaborative list of open-source alternatives to typical government and enterprise software needs

change_agent

A Git-backed key-value store, for tracking changes to documents and other files over time

situation-clock

LED-style Situation Room wall clock formatted for iPads

github-uploader

A simple app to enable drag-and-drop uploading of binary and other assets to GitHub Repositories

word-to-markdown-js

Convert Word documents to beautiful Markdown. Via command line or in your browser.

Convert-Word-Documents-to-HTML

Cleans up the otherwise-ugly output generated by Microsoft Word when you use the File -> Save As HTML option and optionally includes Twitter Bootstrap

troll-repellant

A micro-service to automatically comment on and close issues opened by bothersome users.

zoom-go

A command line tool for joining your next Zoom meeting.

huebot

Changes a Phillips Hue light's color and flashes based on GitHub's status

dotfiles

@BenBalter's computering environment and the scripts to initialize it and keep it up to date.

jekyll-bootstrap-sass

A plugin to add Twitter Bootstrap to your Jekyll site

Frequency-Analysis

Script to parse text file and find frequency of n-word phrases

redliner

A tool for facilitating the redlining of documents with the GitHub uninitiated

add-to-org

A simple Oauth App to automatically add users to an organization

avatar-montage

Create a tiled montage (or collage) of GitHub Avatar images for use in all hands and other "welcome" or "thank you" slides

open-sourcing-government

Presentation on applying the open-collaboration philosophy to the process of governing

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

sitemap-parser

Ruby Gem to parse sitemaps.org compliant sitemaps

jekyll-restful-api-generator

Given a CSV file (or a series of YAML files), generates a RESTful API using Jekyll

plister

A utility for programmatically setting OS X plist file preferences

Twitter-Mentions-as-Comments

Please note: This project is no longer actively maintained and is seeking a new maintainer.

naughty_or_nice

You've made the list, we'll help you check it twice. Given a domain-like string, verifies inclusion in a list you provide.

bulk-issue-creator

Bulk opens batches of issues (or posts comments) across GitHub repositories based on a template and CSV of values. Think of it like "mail merge" for GitHub issues.

gmail-and-google-calendar-stats

Scrapes your GMail and Google Calendar data and returns it as a CSV for further analysis.

ra11y

Ruby-based automated accessibility testing

pdftotext

A Ruby wrapper for the `pdftotext` command line library

Site-Inspector-php

PHP Class to provide information about a given domain.

coconductor

A work-in-progress code of conduct detector based off Licensee

government-glossary

A GovSpeak to English translator a.k.a. glossary of common government IT and procurement terms, abbreviations and acronyms (CGITPTAA)

2016-campaign-tech

An entirely unofficial look at the technology stacks of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns

squad_goals

A tiny app to allow open-source contributors to opt-in to GitHub teams.

Plugin-Boilerplate

Infinite-Scroll

"Fork" of the infinite scroll WordPress Plugin

copy-issue-link-bookmarklet

Copies a markdown link to the GitHub issue you're currently viewing in the form of [issue title](issue URL).

2021-analysis-of-federal-dotgov-domains

Analysis of what technologies power federal .gov websites - 2021 edition.

open-source-for-government

A collaborative resource for government employees looking to participate in the open source community

simple-api

An example of making a simple API with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

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

issue-shadower

A webhook receiver to mirror GitHub.com issues to private GitHub Enterprise forks.

so_far_so_good

A Ruby Gem to parse and manipulate the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)

copy-to

A quick-and-dirty Heroku app to simulate running `git clone`, `git remote add`, and `git push` locally.

wordpress-unix-theme

Unix-like Interface for Wordpress

.github

Script to share community files (e.g., CONTRIBUTING.md) and probot configuration files across repositories

Domain-Inventory

WordPress plugin to track Federal .Govs by Agency, Status, Non-WWW Support, IPv6 Support, CDN, CMS, Cloud Provider, Analytics, JavaScript Libraries, and HTTPs support.

tweets

Archive's historical Tweets as a Jekyll site on GitHub Pages

PCLJ-Members-Workspace

Customization of WP Document Revisions for the Public Contract Law Journal

wordpress-plugin-boilerplate-classes

Convert-Microsoft-Word-Footnotes-to-WordPress-Simple-Footnotes

Plugin to parse Microsoft Word footnotes into WordPress's Simple Footnotes format

behind-github-geojson

Open source, open standards and 50 lines of code: A look behind GitHub’s GeoJSON rendering and diffing

feedback

Ask @benbalter anything!

markdown-table-formatter

A Ruby class to normalize column lengths in a markdown table

when-did-nacin-last-blog

Answering the internet's toughest questions since 2011.

hubot-webscale

A web-sockets based Hubot adapter to allow Hubot to be embedded in a website at webscale.

meeting-matrix

Visually counts down the time remaining in a meeting on an RGB LED Matrix using a Raspberry Pi.

ti-83-programs

The first (useful) software I ever wrote. Calculator programs written between 2001 and 2005 on a TI-83 Plus.

Recursive-Merge-Sort-in-PHP

Recursive Merge Sort Function in PHP

import_export

A Ruby client for Trade.gov's Consolidated Screening List

Encrypt-Posts

WordPress Plugin that provides data-at-rest encryption of post content

bot-notification-silencer

Marks notifications from bots as read.

federal-open-source-repositories

A dynamically generated list of open source projects hosted on GitHub

change_agent_demo

Demo data store for https://github.com/benbalter/change_agent

jekyll-accessibility-template

Jekyll Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and §508 accessibility information template

jekyll-edit-link

A Jekyll tag that generates links to edit the current page on GitHub

make-maps-better-together

Collaborative mapping the GitHub Way™

chilling_effects

A Ruby gem to interact with the Chilling Effects API

dont-build-an-api

Presentation for the DC API meetup

go-huebot

Changes a Phillips Hue light's color and flashes based on GitHub's status