Tom Preston-Werner

Ever wanted to run a single command in your website’s images directory and have every image losslessly optimized (compressed) in place? Now you can, with the smusher gem. I just…

We’ve removed the Watchers tab (for good this time) and replaced it with a dedicated button in the Repo Details box. You’ll also see the number of forks the repo…

Until now, whenever you pushed a modified gemspec to a repository that is gem enabled, we rebuilt it, no questions asked. This was convenient if you needed to fix a…

We’ve begun to revamp the GitHub homepage to more accurately reflect what we’re all about. The first step of this redesign was to more prominently feature our private code hosting…

As a special holiday treat, we’re putting all of our remaining shirt stock on sale. You can now get Fork You for $18.00 USD and All Your Rebase for $16.00…

With the rollout of GitHub Pages, why not show the world that you collaborate on GitHub? I’ve prepared these ribbons that you can overlay on your site by copying and…

GitHub Pages allow you to publish web content to a github.com subdomain named after your username. With Pages, publishing web content becomes as easy as pushing to your GitHub repository.…

We all love stats and graphs, and I especially love bringing them to you. So without further ado I present the long asked for traffic graph for each and every…

A recent trio of blog posts highlights the benefits of putting your code experiments up on GitHub for others to see. This is a huge part of what makes GitHub…

This is a bit of old, but fun, news. Back in August we bought a full page ad spot in The Rubyist, a print and digital magazine for Ruby programmers.…

Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…

 I’ve converted our participation graphs (as seen above) to use Canvas instead of Flash. Linux users rejoice! This means the graphs should load quite a bit faster and not…

 It’s hard to imagine, but just one year ago today we made the first commit to the GitHub repository. We don’t have a baby book for GitHub, so we’ll…

 The 2008 Rails Rumble is set to start tonight at midnight and we’ll be sponsoring the competition in two ways. First, we’re providing free private repositories for each of…

 It’s been almost 6 months since we released the network graph and since then it has become an indispensable part of the GitHub experience. Over that period I’ve been…