Tom Preston-Werner

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

As the last stop on my four-country, three-conference international tour I’m coming to Belfast! The festivities will start Saturday, September 18th at 19:00 at Duke of York. So, come by…

I’m in Moscow for the @mail.ru Tech Forum and I’ll be holding a casual GitHub Drinkup at Sally O’Brien’s starting at 21:00. So, come by and meet me (Tom Preston-Werner).…

I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks,…

I’m in Boulder again and it’s time for another GitHub Meetup: Boulder Edition! Once again, we’ll meet at my favorite South Boulder bar: The Southern Sun. Here’s the details: When:…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…

LAST MINUTE DRINKUP NOTICE We can’t let the SF crew have all the fun! Join me (Tom Preston-Werner) in Boulder for a few drinks at the Southern Sun Pub &…

When I initially sat down to write the Network Graph two years ago, I chose Adobe Flash for two primary reasons: 1) I was already familiar with Flash, having worked…

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub’s sharded file server architecture. As a reminder,…

Following three months of near 100% uptime, we’ve just been through three major outages in as many days. I wanted to take some time to detail the problems and what…

If you happen to find yourself in Wellington, New Zealand (perhaps for LinuxConf AU) then stop by The Malt House tonight (Wednesday the 20th) after 7pm and join Scott Chacon…

It is now possible to completely bypass Jekyll processing on GitHub Pages by creating a file named .nojekyll in the root of your pages repo and pushing it to GitHub.…

I’ll be in Philadelphia this week and my pal @trotter and I will be orchestrating a GitHub Drinkup on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:30pm at National Mechanics (map). If you’re…

img http://erlang.org/images/erlang-logo.png I’m pleased to announce that GitHub now hosts an official Git version of Erlang/OTP. The core Erlang team states: Beginning with this release [R13B03] we will maintain (and…