GitHub is free for personal accounts

With GitHub Free for personal accounts, you can work with unlimited collaborators on unlimited public repositories with a full feature set, and on unlimited private repositories with a limited feature set.

With GitHub Free, your personal account includes:

2,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month (= 400x 5 min jobs)
500 MB GitHub Packages storage
120 GitHub Codespaces core hours per month
15 GB GitHub Codespaces storage per month

from https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github/githubs-products

Get Started

GitHub "Hello World"

Github's own "get started" is a good starting place - though I realised this later in the game.

Hello World - GitHub Docs

github

https://docs.github/en/get-started/quickstart/hello-world

Clearing a Github repo

without deleting it. Use case: static generator leaves deleted or renamed articles as HTML behind, thus impacting SEO.

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial commit'

if the above alone does not work, add:

git remote add origin [repo_address]
git push --mirror --force

from: https://gist.github/stephenhardy/5470814

Misc

I have started starring repos I like.

See:

GitHub stars matter! Here is why | Infracost

infracost

https://www.infracost/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-why

There are two main reasons why people star GitHub projects:
1. Bookmarks
1. Show support or appreciation

Troubleshooting

05 Sep 2022

git push hangs after Total line

git push hangs after Total line - Stack Overflow

stackoverflow

https://stackoverflow/questions/15843937/git-push-hangs-after-total-line

git config --global http.postBuffer 157286400 worked for me.
Also, in the case of pushing my static site with Pelican, deactivating pelican -r (auto-refresh) to avoid any updates while Git is pushing.