Easier feeds for GitHub Pages
If you publish a blog using GitHub pages, it’s now easier for others to subscribe to updates. The Jekyll Feed plugin, now available to all GitHub Pages sites, can automatically…
Ben Balter
Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.
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Improving map data on GitHub
You’ve been able to view and diff geospatial data on GitHub for a while, but now, in addition to being able to collaborate on the GeoJSON files you upload to…
GitHub Enterprise, now on AWS GovCloud
GitHub is used by government agencies to collaborate on all sorts of interesting things, from software that aids first responders to White House policy, but sometimes agencies require a level…
Releases metadata for GitHub Pages
Last year, we exposed repository and organization metadata to help you showcase your open source efforts on GitHub Pages. We’re adding releases metadata to that list, allowing you to more…
Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months
Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…
Open source license usage on GitHub.com
Open source simply isn’t open source without a proper license. Unless you’ve explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you’ve only showed others your code; you…
GitHub Pages legacy IP brownout
This week we will be conducting a “brownout” of all misconfigured GitHub Pages sites. If your GitHub Pages site’s DNS is pointed at an out-of-date IP address, we will intermittently…
GitHub Pages Legacy IP Deprecation
Update: We’ve extended the deprecation deadline to February 2, 2015 to give Pages users more time to update their DNS records. If you use a custom domain with GitHub Pages,…
Government opens up: 10k active government users on GitHub
In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities…
GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0
We’ve upgraded GitHub Pages to support the latest version of Jekyll, the open source static site generator. Whether you’re a new user or a savvy veteran, here are a few…
GitHub Pages <3
We’re excited to share some recent improvements to GitHub Pages, which you may have already noticed rolling out over the past several weeks: Additional metadata for organization pages Many large…
Repository metadata and plugin support for GitHub Pages
We’ve added several commonly requested features, making GitHub Pages an even better place to host websites for you and your projects. Repository metadata First, Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages now…
Diffable, more customizable maps
We’re excited to announce two improvements to mapping on GitHub today: diffs and feature-level customizations. Visualizing changes over time We added the ability to visualize geospatial data to GitHub last…
Descriptive error messages for failed GitHub Pages builds
It’s tough to be the bearer of bad news. Fortunately, today we’re making it a bit easier to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects. When you push…
Introducing government.github.com
Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves. Today we’re…
Washington DC Drinkup
Hey Washingtonians, put down your paperwork and join @balevine, @benbalter, @bleything, @imbriaco, @jssjr, @lynnwallenstein, and @sroberts as we raise a 🍺 to toast surviving yet another summer of sweltering D.C.…