The latest blogs from GitHub

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.…

By now you’ve heard that the third annual OctoCat Dodgeball Invitational is scheduled to commence this Sunday, November 17, at the Gene Friend Recreation Center in SOMA. After the tournament,…

There’s a lot happening on GitHub. As we reach closer and closer to 10 million repositories, there’s an astounding amount of activity happening every day. Our trending page is a…

Hey Toronto!! A bunch of us are coming to town to hang out with local boy @raganwald and thought it would be nice to hang out with some of our…

Join us on Thursday, November 14th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with Ligaya Tichy. Ligaya loves the early stages of startups. She launched new markets…

John Britton and Matthew McCullough will be making a trek across Japan to host a series of talks and drinkups. We’d love to have you join us for one or…

Octokit is a family of client libraries for the GitHub API. Back in May, we released Octokit libraries for Ruby and Objective-C. Today we’re releasing the third member of the…

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…

We ran our very first game jam last year and had so much fun, we decided to throw another one! The Challenge You have the entire month of November to…

Hello Shanghai! Join @bhuga and @PeterBell for a drinkup to kick off QCon Shanghai this Thursday! You don’t need to attend the conference to join us, and you don’t need…

Today we released an update to GitHub for Windows allowing you to quickly see when a branch is no longer in sync with its remote. Right next to the sync…

Join us on Tuesday, October 29th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with designer Jen Myers. Jen is a web designer and developer and part of…

Last year, 20 teams faced off on the dodgeball court, (in the name of charity, of course). It was a ton of fun, and we were able to raise over…

I’m in Nairobi for DEMO Africa this week. But before I check out all the inspiring tech projects in East Africa I thought it would be cool to get some…

I’ll be in Beijing with @dannygreg for RubyConf China next week, so join us next Friday for some drinks and fun at CheKu Cafe! You don’t need to attend the…

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…

Join us for the first ever drinkup in Tanzania! In conjunction with AfricaHackTrip, we are putting on our second drinkup in East Africa this week to support and celebrate all…

@jdennes and I are in town for the WebCamp Zagreb conference 🚀, and we’ll be hosting our first ever drinkup in Croatia. Come on by The Movie Pub on Saturday,…

Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves. Today we’re…

To follow up with our recent two-factor authentication security feature, we are giving users more insight into their active browser sessions. Under Account settings > Security History you will see…

Today we’re happy to share some shiny visual updates to GitHub for Windows. You’ll notice some big layout changes, as well as many small improvements throughout. The result is a…