Brian Doll

What an incredible and productive year! A few days ago the 10 millionth repository was created on GitHub.com, just in time for the new year. The first million repositories were…

There are millions of projects on GitHub. Every day, people from around the world are working to make these projects better. Opening issues, pushing code, submitting Pull Requests, discussing project…

Celebrating a big feature release with a distributed team can be difficult awesome. We typically deploy dozens of times per day and ship new features regularly. We celebrate shipping several…

For several months now, the jQuery team has been fulfilling one of their major goals to open-source all of the content and design of all jQuery web sites on GitHub.…

Earlier today a routine system email was incorrectly sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making…

Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

Tweets with links to GitHub just got a whole lot prettier. By supporting Twitter Cards on GitHub, any tweets containing a link to a GitHub repository will provide more context…

I am continually blown away by the staggering amount of work happening on GitHub. Every day, our users commit code, open and close issues, and make plans for their software…

Sofia Rocks! Join Nick and I along with all the great folks attending OpenFest for a pint at RockIT, Sofia’s most awesome rock and metal bar. The party starts at…

Many GitHubbers are parents, so optimizing for happiness means thinking about the entire, extended GitHub family. We work on our own schedule, from anywhere in the world, doing the best…

Fresh from the incredible Nordic Ruby conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Kyle, Will and I are hosting a drinkup Monday night at The Bishops Arms. We hope to see you there!…

Last month we kicked off the GitHub Data Challenge to see what awesome things might be lurking in the GitHub public timeline. The entries were incredible! People from all over…

We had a blast launching GitHub for Windows and we’re ready to celebrate. We’re hosting an evening on the bay — cocktails, treats, and an awesome DJ — and everyone…

The GitHub public timeline is now easy to query and analyze. With hundreds of thousands of events in the timeline every day, there are countless stories to tell. Excited to…

There are over 1.5 million people working on over 2.5 million repositories on GitHub these days. Here are a few more fun stats I grabbed recently: Exploring GitHub Data The…