The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub is being used today to build scientific software that’s helping find Earth-like planets in other solar systems, analyze DNA, and build open source rockets. Seeing these projects and all…

Come share some 🍻 and ☕ on GitHub, Friday May 30th at 19:00! @danishkhan and @joewadcan will be at Halbite 3 to hang out with our local GitHub users in…

Come enjoy snacks and drinks this Wednesday, May 14th at Faro! I’ll be in town speaking at HelsinkiJS and then looking forward to meeting the lovely GitHub users in Helsinki…

Lots of businesses today are experimenting with open source, both by maintaining open source projects and also by internalizing open source workflows. However, adopting open source tools in a business…

Update, December 15, 2016: We’ve rolled back this feature. For the most up-to-date information on Gists, check out our Help documentation. Because we love sharing, we use Gist every day…

We’re excited to share some recent improvements to GitHub Pages, which you may have already noticed rolling out over the past several weeks: Additional metadata for organization pages Many large…

Come hang out with @matthewmccullough and @brntbeer on Monday, May 12th at Teerenpeli! We will be attending the Turku Agile Day conference, hanging out with the organizers and speakers Monday…

@afeld, @rothsa, @azizshamim, @asenchi, @technicalpickles, @chrishunt, @gorsuch (and more) …a lively bunch of Hubbers are in town and we’re ready to drink 🍵 like the 🐟🐟🐟🐟 Come say hello –…

Ten weeks ago we debuted Atom, the new text editor that’s deeply programmable but also easy to use. Starting today, Atom is available for download to everyone–completely free and open…

We just shipped our latest GitHub Guide: Hello-World. The “Hello World” project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming and now there is one just for GitHub. Hello repositories and…

Come share a smörgåsbord of platters and beverages on GitHub on Saturday, May 10th, at Hemma. @cobyism and @benogle will be in town for ScotlandJS, but come along even if…

Documenting the code you share on GitHub can contribute tremendously to the success of your project. When your documentation is easy to access and read, people can better understand how…

A little over 6 years ago we launched github-services as an open source project. We’ve had a great deal of success with github-services, but the growing number of supported services…

Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I’m…

Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…

Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a…

Come join @asenchi, @leongersing, @bkeepers, @spicycode, and me this Saturday, April 26 for a drinkup at Bell’s Brewery. We’ll be in town for Kalamazoo X but you need not be…

@mattgraham and @southgate will be in Recife for the Abril Pro Ruby conference on April 24th. We’ll be running a workshop earlier in the day, but if you can’t make…

We love using GitHub to write notes on specific lines in a diff — now it’s super easy to do from any smartphone! Just bring up your favorite pull request…

On April 7, 2014 information was released about a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, the cryptography library that powers the vast majority of private communication across the Internet. This library…

Computer science professor, Armando Fox, is one of the thousands of teachers who use GitHub to give their students hands-on experience writing software in teams. On a recent trip to…