The latest blogs from GitHub

We’ve always shown the last commit to the Branch or Tag you’re browsing on the root page of a repository: Now, we also show the latest commit per directory —…

Lately, we’ve been shipping more in GitHub for Mac than ever before. Now that username autocompletion and Notification Center support are out the door, we’re releasing the two frameworks that…

Join @calavera, @pengwynn, and all the lovely attendees from RubyConf Argentina for a beer or three at The Temple Bar in Buenos Aires, Argentina! Party starts this Friday 19th (tomorrow!)…

I will be joining @dannygreg and @lukehefson on their home soil, in London, England this week, which is as good an occasion as any for a drinkup. I’m speaking at…

Join @holman, the folks from re:build 2012, and myself for a beer tonight at The Speak Easy in Indianapolis, Indiana! Party starts at 7PM and GitHub is picking up the…

There are upwards of 800 emojis available in any GitHub Flavored Markdown post. But how do you find the one you are looking for without scrolling through them all? We…

Last year we invited 17 teams to compete on the dodgeball court, all in the name of charity. It was awesome! While Heroku’s team did defeat all the competition, the…

Hot on the heels of username autocompletion, today’s release of GitHub for Mac adds Notification Center support for users on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. While logged in, with the…

Fall is here! Leaves are changing color, from their summer green to autumn’s green. Take a break from zombifying your djangopony costume. Gluing red horns on your cat for their…

Nothing brings central Ohioans together in the fall like a Buckeyes game. Well, other than a friendly GitHub Drinkup that is. I’ve had a lot of conversations over the past…

Today’s release of GitHub for Mac adds the ability to autocomplete GitHub usernames right within the commit summary and description fields. This works just like comment fields on GitHub.com. By…

Hey Boulder! One of our founders, @mojombo, will be in the Boulder area next week and would like to buy you, yes YOU, a beer. There will be several other…

The past six months have seen tremendous growth in GitHub’s training organization. We’ve added people, we’ve added materials, and we’ve been to more places on the planet to help make…

Hey Norfolk! You’re Virginia’s second-largest city, so join some East Coast GitHubbers for a pint or two at The Public House to talk all things GitHub and coding. Drinks are…

I’m in Cambridge, MA giving tech talks at universities in the area, get in touch if you’d like me to visit your school. While I’m in town, I’m hosting my…

GitHub is a goldmine of resources for game developers. I’d like to introduce you to five open source projects that’ll help you build your first, or next, amazing game. Check…

PuppetConf is in town and we’ve got @jnewland, @rodjek, and myself in attendance. There are some great talks this year, and you can even stream many of them for free…

Crafting experiences is central to what we do here at GitHub, and our interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding experiences are no exception. Having recently been through this process first-hand, I’d like…

We’ve shipped 25 updates to GitHub for Windows in the 4 months since we first launched. That’s more than one release per week, for 17 weeks straight! Here’s how we…

We first introduced OAuth2 tokens in the GitHub API starting in v3. Unlike usernames and passwords, OAuth tokens provide additional benefits: Revocable access. Tokens can be revoked at any time…

Today we’re shipping new user profile pages. We wanted the new profile pages to feel more personal and less like another dashboard. We’re using larger, Retina-friendly avatars on the new…