The latest blogs from GitHub

SXSW has come and gone, but Austin’s vibrant tech community remains. Whether you’re in town for Xamarin Evolve or not, join @jspahrsummers, @joshvera, and me Monday night for some drinks,…

Five years ago today, @defunkt, @pjhyett, and I gathered in our online chat room and prepared to push a commit to GitHub that would finally mark the public launch of…

Merging branches on GitHub is already pretty awesome, and today it gets a little bit better with a redesigned merge button. In addition to being easier to read, the new…

Today, we’re excited to 🚢 the latest release of GitHub for Mac with support for GitHub Enterprise. You’ll now be able to use all of your favorite Mac features, such…

Last Friday we announced and performed a migration of all GitHub Pages to their own github.io domain. This was a long-planned migration, with the specific goal of mitigating phishing attacks…

Here at GitHub, we’re always excited to see people using GitHub to collaborate on all sorts of things, code or non-code. Today, we’re adding a third dimension by making it…

Join me Saturday, April 13, at the awesome Bell’s Brewery (yes, that Bell’s) for a night of drinks, friends, and GitHubbery. If you’re in town for Kalamazoo X then you’re…

There’s a litter of GitHubbers in Dublin this week for Brio and Úll (like really a LOT) so help us mark GitHub’s 5th BIRTHDAY with a pint or two (on…

Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…

We often like to think of text as a UI at GitHub. We use text to navigate our text editors, we use keyboard shortcuts to delete our email, and we…

There are a handful of Hubbernauts in attendance at this year’s Mountainwest RubyConf in Salt Lake City — @bkeepers, @jnewland, @rodjek, and myself. Tonight we’re welcoming all conference attendees to…

Starting today you’ll see the list of “Repositories you contribute to” in the upper right-hand corner of your dashboard in addition to the list that already exists on your profile.…

There are millions of projects on GitHub. Every day, people from around the world are working to make these projects better. Opening issues, pushing code, submitting Pull Requests, discussing project…

As we expand our infrastructure, we are making changes to the IP addresses currently in use. If you are explicitly whitelisting GitHub in your firewall rules, please make sure that…

Have you ever looked at a commit page on GitHub and wondered what branch the commit was in? We did too. If the commit is not on the default branch,…

Celebrating a big feature release with a distributed team can be difficult awesome. We typically deploy dozens of times per day and ship new features regularly. We celebrate shipping several…

GitHub for Mac has had support for OS X 10.8’s Notification Center for quite some time now. Today, we’re making our Notification Center feature even more useful by tying them…

Join us on April 4th for our second Passion Projects talk with Firefox Dev Heather Arthur. Heather is an engineer at Mozilla in San Francisco, where she works on Firefox…

Almost exactly two years ago we had a blast hosting our first drinkup here in Brussels. This Friday we’re excited to welcome you again and all RubyMotion #inspect attendees at…

We’re in Boston for EclipseCon at the beginning of the week and Monitorama at the end of the week. Join the entire GitHub Ops team — and a few of…

For several months now, the jQuery team has been fulfilling one of their major goals to open-source all of the content and design of all jQuery web sites on GitHub.…