• Profile icon at the top right → Settings → Contributions & Activity → “Include private contributions on my profile” → check → “Update preferences”

• Profile icon at the top right → Settings → Profile Settings → “Show Achievements on my profile” → uncheck → “Update preferences”

• Verifying your email address (docs.github.com)
• Creating a personal access token (docs.github.com)
• Token authentication requirements for Git operations (github.blog)
  • Beginning August 13, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com.

• https://www.githubstatus.com/

• https://grep.app/
  • sample query: https://grep.app/search?q=binary%20gap%20&filter[lang][0]=Python

Use

filename:.travis.yml

for example

python unittest filename:.travis.yml

Add

-repo:user_name/repo_name

to the search string.

Ref:

• https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/getting-started-with-searching-on-github/understanding-the-search-syntax#exclude-certain-results - documents the '-' operator.

For your own issues

https://github.com/issues

For other users, there are two possible approaches.

Solution 1:

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3Ausername+archived%3Afalse+

For example

https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3AKamarajuKusumanchi+archived%3Afalse+

Solution 2:

is:issue is:open author:$author

for example

is:issue is:open author:kamarajukusumanchi