The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2023
We expanded diversity of our employee base, launched several new employee engagement programs, made investments to improve accessibility, and more.

Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.

Release Radar · Hacktoberfest 2023 Edition
As Hacktoberfest comes to a close, you still have a day or so left to complete and submit your pull requests. If you’re struggling to think of projects to contribute…

The architecture of today’s LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.

Demystifying LLMs: How they can do things they weren’t trained to do
Explore how LLMs generate text, why they sometimes hallucinate information, and the ethical implications surrounding their incredible capabilities.

Developers are the first group to adopt AI at work. Here’s why that matters.
From starting at GitHub over 10 years ago as a developer to becoming the Chief Operating Officer, I’ve learned that developers are often bellwethers for change across the rest of their organizations. That makes investing in—and learning from—them critical.

5 tips for making your GitHub profile page accessible
Your profile’s README invites the world to know you and your work, so it’s important that everyone can read and understand it. In this post, we share some tips for making your README more accessible.

Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @Ammar Askar
We’re excited to highlight another top contributing researcher to GitHub’s Bug Bounty Program—@Ammar Askar!

How to gain insight into your project contributors
We’re excited to share with you the contributors Action! At GitHub, we maintain several open source repositories and have developed this Action to empower maintainers to measure how many new and returning contributors and contributions have occurred over any given time period.

ICYMI: improved C++ vulnerability coverage and CodeQL support for Lombok
The effectiveness of a static application security solution hinges on its ability to provide extensive vulnerability coverage and support for a wide range of languages and frameworks. Today, we’re highlighting two releases that’ll help you discover more vulnerabilities in your codebase, so you can ship more secure software.

Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity
Gain actionable insights about the intersection of AI and human skills, while tackling ethics, accessibility, and productivity at these GitHub Universe sessions.

The clock is ticking: Atlassian’s support for Bitbucket Server ends on February 15, 2024
Atlassian is ending support for its Server products—including Bitbucket Server—in February 2024. In this post, you’ll learn what that means for you, your options, and how you can move to GitHub.

Getting RCE in Chrome with incomplete object initialization in the Maglev compiler
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2023-4069, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.

Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry
Use our new open source Trace2 receiver component and OpenTelemetry to capture and visualize telemetry from your Git commands.

js13kGames 2023 winners 🏆
The twelfth annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.

Ensuring the next generation of open source leaders are truly “all in”
If you are a student from a U.S. minority-serving institution looking to start your journey into open source, join us!

GitHub Availability Report: September 2023
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Enforcing code reliability by requiring workflows with GitHub repository rules
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now ensure controlled workflows run and pass before code is merged into any of its repositories.

Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on code quality
Findings show that code quality is better across the board and developers felt more confident, too.
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