Optimizing large selector sets
CSS selectors are to frontend development as SQL statements are to the backend. Aside from their origin in CSS, we use them all over our JavaScript. Importantly, selectors are declarative,…
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Video from Passion Projects Talk #7 with Jen Myers
Jen Myers joined us in December of 2013 for the 7th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Jen taught us the importance of not being an expert and how…
Improving our SSL setup
As we announced previously we've improved our SSL setup by deploying forward secrecy and improving the list of supported ciphers. Deploying forward secrecy and up to date cipher lists comes…
Introducing Forward Secrecy and Authenticated Encryption Ciphers
As of yesterday we've updated our SSL setup on the systems that serve traffic for GitHub. The changes introduce support for Forward Secrecy and Authenticated Encryption Ciphers. So what is…
The Ghost of Issues Past
The end of the year is fast approaching, and this is a good time to review open issues from long ago. A great way to find older issues and pull…
Join our Octostudy!
There are a lot of interesting people on GitHub today. Since we can't meet everyone at a conference, drinkup, or charity dodgeball game, we are hoping you can tell us…
Weak passwords brute forced
Some GitHub user accounts with weak passwords were recently compromised due to a brute force password-guessing attack. I want to take this opportunity to talk about our response to this…
An African hack trip
GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw drinkups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.…
Disabling old IP addresses
We've made some significant upgrades to the network infrastructure powering GitHub, and it's time to turn off some of the old gear. We've updated DNS records to point at our…
Modeling your App’s User Session
If you've been keeping an eye on your cookies, you may have noticed some recent changes GitHub has made to how we track your session. You shouldn't notice any difference…
Git Internals PDF Open Sourced
Over 5 years ago, shortly after GitHub initially launched, Chris pointed out on one of our earliest blog posts this Peepcode PDF on Git internals that I had just written:…
Site Maintenance August 31st 2013
This Saturday, August 31st, 2013 at 5AM PDT we will be upgrading a large portion of our database infrastructure in order to provide a faster and more reliable GitHub experience.…
IP Address Changes
As we continue to expand the infrastructure that powers GitHub, we want to make everyone aware of some changes to the IP addresses that we use. Most customers won't have…
GitHub Flow in the Browser
Now that you can delete files directly on GitHub we’ve reached a very exciting milestone—the entire GitHub Flow™ is now possible using nothing but a web browser. What is GitHub…
Git Merge Berlin 2013
Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they've…