--- title: Best GitHub Blog posts — December 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted GitHub Blog posts from December 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of/2021/12 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of/2021/12 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best GitHub Blog posts — December 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted GitHub Blog posts from December 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of GitHub Blog — December 2021 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/5-automations-every-developer-should-be-running-xfxienpkr "5 automations every developer should be running") Article GitHub Blog · 5y 5 automations every developer should be running GitHub Actions offers thousands of pre-written, community-built tests and automations that range from code quality to code review to testing. CodeQL finds security advisories across coding languages and packages, and then automatically displays them in your repository’s security tab. Run npm test in your workflows to push the latest and greatest software. 88 4 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/improving-github-code-search-soieghjul "Improving GitHub code search") Article GitHub Blog · 5y Improving GitHub code search GitHub is rolling out a technology preview for substantial improvements to searching code on GitHub. We want to give you an early look at our efforts and get your feedback as we iterate on helping you explore and discover code. Sign up for the waitlist now, and give us your feedback! 26 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-top-10-blog-posts-of-2021-mhe3nczrl "GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021") Article GitHub Blog · 5y GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021 GitHub Blog is highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers during 2021\. If you’re looking for inspiration as we head into the new year, take a look at the top 10 posts published in 2021. 23 1 [See all GitHub Blog archives](/sources/ghblog/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of/2021/12#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of/2021/12","name":"Best GitHub Blog Posts — December 2021","description":"The most upvoted GitHub Blog posts from December 2021, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of/2021/12#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-automations-every-developer-should-be-running-xfxienpkr","name":"5 automations every developer should be running"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/improving-github-code-search-soieghjul","name":"Improving GitHub code search"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/github-s-top-10-blog-posts-of-2021-mhe3nczrl","name":"GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"GitHub Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"December 2021"}]}]} ```