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Will Farrington

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Salt Lake City Drinkup

There are a handful of Hubbernauts in attendance at this year's Mountainwest RubyConf in Salt Lake City — @bkeepers, @jnewland, @rodjek, and myself. Tonight we're welcoming all conference attendees to…

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Introducing Boxen

Today we’re proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called “The Setup” — a…

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Recent Code Search Outages

Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…

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New Status Site

We just launched a new status.github.com. Downtime is important Even if you're shooting for five nines — 99.999% uptime — you're still going to have to account for five minutes…

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PuppetConf Drinkup (San Francisco)

PuppetConf is in town and we’ve got @jnewland, @rodjek, and myself in attendance. There are some great talks this year, and you can even stream many of them for free…

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Atlanta Drinkup

Join @rick and myself for our next drinkup down South this Wednesday at our favorite spot in Atlanta, GA: the Publik Draft House! I'll be speaking at this month's Atlanta…