PJ Hyett

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work at GitHub, check out Zach Holman’s (@holman) candid three-part series on how we operate: Hours are Bullshit Be Asynchronous Creativity is…

Scott Chacon (@schacon) has written a fantastic post regarding how we develop GitHub using GitHub itself. Do yourself a favor and head over to his blog: http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html If there’s only…

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk, a tech analyst firm, gave a presentation this morning entitled Survival of the Forges wherein he compared the four main software forges: Sourceforge, Google Code, GitHub,…

I’ll be in Verona, Italy this Friday during phpDay 2011 and jsDay 2011. If you’re in the area or at one of the conferences, come have a beer on GitHub…

About a year ago, I wrote a post talking about the avalanche of commits coming into GitHub. That Tuesday, GitHub received 33,154 pushes containing 109,290 commits. An insane number to…

Join Tom, Kyle, Scott and PJ at the Guinness Gravity Bar this Saturday from 20:00. There will be a bunch of people there for the FunConf after party, so make…

It just occurred to me that we never mentioned Twitter’s been open sourcing code like crazy on GitHub over the past few months. They’ve put together a really great Twitter…

Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.

We’re always keeping an ear to the ground about GitHub and one of things that comes up a fair amount is improving our feature visibility. In other words, we offer…

UPDATE This isn’t an update I wanted to write, but Kyle and I won’t be flying to Europe after all. There have been numerous reports that even though airports are…

Google Code had an anniversary today and they mentioned some of their stats. There was one in particular that I thought was pretty interesting: Today, there are more than 240,000…

As of January 1, 2010 we’re operating this site as GitHub, Inc. What does that mean for you? In a word: nothing. We originally incorporated Logical Awesome LLC prior to…

It’s great to see more and more companies embracing open source. The latest to put their code on GitHub is Palm, with repos related to their webOS product. They join…

After a long hiatus, we’re linking to merge commits again. We truncated merge commits months ago, because they didn’t provide any information beyond the shas of the parents, but now…