Chris Wanstrath

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Call Your Code

I don’t typically get excited about phone stuff. I dread making or receiving phone calls like a small child dreads vegetables. But this is cool. GitHub users @troy and @eric…

An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.
An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

Dashboard Tweaks

Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a “public /…

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BioPython on GitHub

BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…

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Ack!

I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack Watch the project and start…

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Ref Names in URLs

We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You’d take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…

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New Project Root URLs

As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the “/tree/default_branch” suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course “tree/master” will 301 redirect, don’t worry.) Enjoy!

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GitHub Meetup: Chicago

Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…

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Git for Non-Programmers

@alecthegeek has a tutorial over at Sitepoint for non-programmers titled [Gi]( Your New Best Friend”:http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git/). img http://img.skitch.com/20090831-ci9ycpn1xcxct2yd7bx3b16kdf.png http://www.sitepoint.com/article/version-control-git Check it out if you or someone you know could use some…