Easy Git!
eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? ("SVN is good enough.") Know someone who would love to…
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Scripting Bioclipse
Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…
Compojure: Clojure Web Framework
Compojure is a Clojure web framework similar to web.py or Sinatra. Your browser does not support IFrames The project also has a Wikibook and mailing list. Looks cool.
Gist for Greasemonkey
We're now appending the gist name at the end of its raw url. That means it's dead-simple to serve greasemonkey (or greasekit) scripts directly from gist.github.com. I was able to…
Dirty Git State in Your Prompt
Henrik has a great article explaining why and how to display Git's dirty state status (along with the branch, of course) in your bash prompt. topfunky prefers a skull and…
Speedy Queries
First our new queue, and now this:   The site should be much faster - but it's still not fast enough. We're hard at work making things like git…
The New Queue
Yesterday we moved to a new queue, Shopify's delayed_job (or dj). After trying a few different solutions in the early days, we settled on Ara Howard's Bj. It was fine…
Scaling Lesson #23742
GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…
Supercharged git-daemon
Over the past several weeks I've been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd…
Supercharged Ruby-Git
One of the slowest things you can do in Ruby is shell out to the operating system. As a contrived example, let's open an empty file 1,000 times: >> require…
Downtime Tonight
We'll have an hour or two of downtime tonight around midnight PST while the awesome dudes at Engine Yard upgrade our disk capacity. Thanks, see you on the flip side.