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Tom Preston-Werner

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Open Source Japanese Curry

img http://img.skitch.com/20090204-eji9cs6mj3sw2pt5qfj7s64u27.png I found this open source recipe for Japanese curry this evening after a hard day's work and it made me laugh (read to the end). I love seeing…

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NatsuLiphone iPhone Twitter Client

I just learned this morning that my favorite iPhone Twitter client, NatsuLiphone, is open source and on GitHub! If you're into iPhone development and Twitter, find a comfortable chair, sit…

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Load Flash on Demand in WebKit

ClickToFlash is a plugin for WebKit that prevents Adobe Flash content from automatically loading. Instead, it replaces the content with a placeholder that you can click to load the original…

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New Watchers/Forks UI

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…

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Gem Rebuilds only on Version Bump

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…

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A New Homepage Begins

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…

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Holiday Shirt Super Sale!

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…

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GitHub Ribbons

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…

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GitHub Pages

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.…

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Traffic Graphs

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…

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Code In the Open

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…

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First GitHub Magazine Ad

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.…