New in the shop: 5″ Octocat Figurine
For years, the Octocat has been stuck in the realm of two dimensions—but no more! Now she’s crawling off your laptop and onto your desk as a 5" vinyl figurine.…
New in the shop: Pinktocat 3.0 shirts
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to help the cause, we’re offering a new shirt in the GitHub Shop. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will be…
Octocat sticker packs are back…
... and stickier than ever! Now in the GitHub Shop: sticker packs with never-before-seen Octocats! Share them with your friends, and bring your laptop one Octocat sticker closer to greatness.
Octicons for everyone!
Two years ago we started using Octicons—our icon font—on GitHub. We use them in many of our sites and include them in Atom. Now we are making them available for…
The Making of Octicons
In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With…
The Creation Of An Octocat
If you're curious about what the octocreation process looks like, today is your lucky day. Check out this ten minute video of the creation of the Codercat.
Our First GitHub CoderDojo Session
This weekend GitHub had the amazing opportunity to host the first CoderDojo session in the United States. I can happily say it was one of the coolest things I've had…
Kids are the future. Teach ’em to code.
Sit back, close your eyes, and think about how good you are at coding. Man, you're awesome. When did you learn how to be so awesome? Now just think how…
Gave That Baby An Octocat. Babies Love Octocats
If there's one things that babies are lacking these days, it's octocats. Fortunately, we've solved that problem.  Know what other problems we've solved? Drink sweat. …
Learning Is Sexy
As part of an ongoing mission to making it easier to learn how Git and GitHub works, we've revamped our documentation. Not only have we redesigned how GitHub:Help looks, we've…
Behold: Image view modes
Now when you view commits that include images you'll be presented with four ways to view them: 2-up, Swipe, Onion Skin. 2-Up is the default mode, which lets you get…
A Little Hand Holding Goes A Long Way
Git is pretty awesome, right? Of course I'm right. If you didn't think so, you wouldn't be here. The trick is, Git is pretty damn confusing if you've never used…