I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)
Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.
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From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem
Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.
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How we built an internal data analytics agent
Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here’s what we learned as we built it.
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How pull request limits are cutting down the noise
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
Latest
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Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
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What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?
Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.
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GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent.
Popular
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.
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How we built an internal data analytics agent
Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here’s what we learned as we built it.
Engineering
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From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
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How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
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The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
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Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
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How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server
Here’s how we made the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.
Spotlight
Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
News & insights
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GitHub availability report: May 2026
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
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GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
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Still a developer. Just outside. Our latest GitHub Shop collection is here.
The ESC collection lets you escape the confines of your desk and get out into the sun where good ideas are bound to happen.
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Take your local GitHub sessions anywhere
Kick off work in VS Code or the CLI, finish it from your phone. Remote control for GitHub Copilot sessions is now generally available on github.com and GitHub Mobile.
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GitHub availability report: April 2026
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Universe 2026
Join us October 28-29 in San Francisco or online for GitHub Universe, our flagship developer event uniting people, agents, and the world’s code.