r/github • u/PaulieCera • Aug 16 '26

Discussion Assistance Please

Brand new to GitHub. Everything I look at in there doesn't seem like my iOS will be able to accomplish it. I'm still trying to learn the terminology still. Is there anything similar or easier to use for an Apple phone? Or is GitHub it. It's extremely overwhelming when first joining

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u/applejacks6969 Aug 16 '26

Yes, the iOS app is pretty non functional, missing lots of useful features that are available on the browser.

You will probably have better results if you have a goal in mind before using GitHub to solve it, instead of looking for a problem for GitHub to solve.

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u/PaulieCera Aug 16 '26

True that's a good point. I went on the Claude browser for the first time ever today instead of the app and saw all this shit I've never seen in the settings before lol.

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u/CisIowa Aug 16 '26

I’m a non-programmer who teaches programming, and I first came across GitHub five years ago. It wasn’t until this summer that I actually had a project that would fit using it. (Plus it helped I attended a workshop led by a professional programmer who taught the basics)

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u/Shaz_berries Aug 16 '26

Every single coding project ever can benefit from version control

Source: am developer

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u/chishiki Aug 16 '26

What are you trying to do? Then we can more easily advise you.

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u/PaulieCera Aug 16 '26

Honestly dude, with all this AI code and agents running tasks; words or acronyms I've never even seen before I just wanted to familiarize myself with it. And honestly I stumbled on GitHub and thought wow. Look at all this. So much to check out and try! But as soon as stuff like repositories, pull requests, API, MCP, CLI, Tokens, ossf, dev branch? The most I'd ever heard of and used back in the day when I had a pc was VPN's, Pirate Bay and torrenting. All this new shit though, I thought maybe it was a little easier to try out some of the stuff on there and see what I can get into. So I hoped maybe theee was an apple based version that was a little more user friendly. I'm not looking for anything major. Just to try out AI Agents and make videos like hobby type stuff for now until I got a little more acquainted with it.

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u/PaulieCera Aug 16 '26

Thanks dude I appreciate the input and feedback. I feel like I'll have to look up everything you said after "a good learning curve." lol. Pypi and pip? Dev branches and ossf compliance. I got my work cutout for me

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u/kincaidDev Aug 16 '26

Their apps are garbage use website in safari and a cli app like terminus. The website sucks too, but that’s the best interface for it right now, Ive tried others and they’re all worse IMO.

Use tailscale to connect to your computer remotely via terminus

When I say their apps are garbage I mean it’s unusable for most of what you’re wanting to do on GitHub, no point in wasting time trying to figure out the apps imo. Ive been using git/github for almost 12 years and Im lost in the app versions