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Tom Preston-Werner

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GFM Everywhere!

img http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/images/gfm.png The move to GitHub Flavored Markdown for all messages and comments on the site is now complete! Any comments or messages created after 2009-04-20 19:00:00 UTC will be…

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GitHub Issue Tracker!

It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you'll now see an "Issues" tab in the top menu. Here's a quick rundown of…

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GitHub Pages Upgraded to Jekyll 0.5.0

I just released Jekyll 0.5.0 which contains a huge overhaul that allows you to specify options in a _config.yml file. GitHub Pages will honor most of these settings, so if…

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Force a Gem Rebuild

In my crusade to improve our Gem support, I've added the ability for you to initiate a Gem build right from the interface. If your Gem build fails, it's often…

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Get your GitHub Stickers!

img http://img.skitch.com/20090219-cp2i7jt4s15t1emehu2uyq15yj.png Guess who received a shipment of 2,000 GitHub stickers a few weeks ago! Me, baby, me. And these are high quality vinyl stickers, sure to last to the…

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Dave Peck’s Go

img http://img.skitch.com/20090222-8ycbtt4mw3tytma39m8xu436q1.png http://go.davepeck.org I used to be really into the game of Go. I even made my own board once from a panel of Beech wood. Painted the lines and…

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Git and GitHub: A Free Course by RubyLearning

If you're new to Git and/or GitHub and want to take your skills to the next level, you'll definitely want to check out [Git and GitHu]( A Free Course":http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/02/10/git-and-github-a-free-course/) by…

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More Disk Space for All!

I hope everyone had a Happy 1234567890 Day! To commemorate the ultimate geek moment, we've decided to give you the ultimate geek gift: more disk space on every GitHub account!…

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YQL 3rd Party Table Definitions

Yahoo recently extended YQL to enable developers to define custom table schemas for 3rd party services. Seeing this, @spullara decided to collect some custom table schemas together in one place.…

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Robust Archive Downloads

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-xrypc923ceu1pbj3kwxx714gm3.png Tonight we rolled out a massive change to how we generate downloadable archives. Now when you hit the zip or tgz icon you'll see a "loading" box as…

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QuirkeyCode

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-ki5psk2u56umjyyrjexs7ejrid.png http://code.quirkey.com The most rewarding part of running GitHub is seeing all the great code and ideas that people are showing off via the site. Earlier tonight I saw…

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Fork You Sighting at Casa Bonita

img http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3258791960_c2411f2925.jpg Starring @3n, @takeo, and @lansing, and taken by @KirinDave (my old coworkers from Powerset/Microsoft). Some sleuthing shows this to have been taken at Casa Bonita in Denver. In…

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Game of Life Engineered to Print Stuff

The very clever @tlrobinson has taken the Game of Life and used it to generate arbitrary line drawings, starting with the Reddit alien. The code is called life-gen and hosted…

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Hyde – The Python Static Site Generator

img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-q26tmesnecrjwi2bjmecm1qyi5.png Hyde is @lakshmivyas' evil Python transformation of my own Ruby Jekyll project, according to the backstory: About a week back I wanted to open source a few jQuery…