How I Find Programmer Email Address

Sometimes we need to ask someone for advice over email. The hardest part is when the email address is not available on his/her blog/about page/social media sites.

Asking their email address sometimes bother their valuable time. So my ways are:

Usual ways:

1. their blog about page, and social media profile.

Unusual ways:

1. Talks slides
2. Mailing list
3. Github commit

Using Github Commit To Find The Programmer's Email Address

Go to certain commit, e.g

https://github.com/azzamsa/emacs.d/commit/7deeb0bef814c0a87fd6d45b2a7e3a5039e5829b

Then append .patch at the end of the link

https://github.com/azzamsa/emacs.d/commit/7deeb0bef814c0a87fd6d45b2a7e3a5039e5829b.patch`
                                                                                   ^^^^^ <--

You will find the email address there. For people that didn't want to show the email, it will be overridden by "no-reply@github" email address.