To get started, click on your profile icon in the upper right corner of the GitHub home page.

Scroll down and look to the left for the Developer Settings. This is where we need to go to create an access token.

Click the Personal Access Tokens dropdown from the left.

Select the (classic) tokens for security and reliability. 

You will no doubt need to set up a personal access token for GitHub at some point if you want remote access to your repositories hosted there. Fortunately, setting up this token is a simple process.

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