The latest blogs from GitHub

We are in Helsinki for Frozen Rails this week and since we enjoy this city so much we wanted to have another drinkup before the year ended. So come join…

Are you in town for the Ruby Hoedown? A Nashville techie wanting to meet up with local colleagues? Or feeling the need to geek out and talk shop with friends,…

With the new addition of the Command Bar, it’s possible to get to so many great parts of GitHub from a single search box. We found it so powerful, that…

At GitHub, we use the command line every day. From git commands to script/server, we love the power it offers. This got us thinking, “why can’t we do that with…

Oftentimes open source projects place a CONTRIBUTING file in the root directory. It explains how a participant should do things like format code, test fixes, and submit patches. Here is…

GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…

What OpenBlend is happening, and when @ben speaks at conferences, he likes to spread joy and cheer. Let GitHub buy you some 🍺, 🍸, 🍹, or 🍷, and geek out…

What Join the midwest contingent of GitHub for a pint or two in the hometown of @jonmagic, @jnunemaker, and @orderedlist. Come wax philosophic on the importance of software development, version…

Tim Berglund is in Oslo, Norway for his third year of the amazing JavaZone conference. And when he’s in Norway, he wants to host drinkups. What The drinkup will return…

You can already see all the repositories you’ve starred at github.com/stars, but today your Stars page just got a whole lot better. Search Looking for a repository you starred? Search…

Join @rick and myself for our next drinkup down South this Wednesday at our favorite spot in Atlanta, GA: the Publik Draft House! I’ll be speaking at this month’s Atlanta…

Join us for our first ever drinkup (as far as I can tell) in the land of Aloha! After speaking about Git and GitHub at the Box Jelly at 7:00…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve been working hard to bring you the most recent features from GitHub.com, and we’re shipping this version with our…

We recently changed the Watcher behavior on GitHub. What used to be known as “Watching” is now “Starring”. Starring is basically a way to bookmark interesting repositories. Watching is a…

The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping…

NYC has had its share of drinkups, but it’s about time Brooklyn had its own. So get your butt on the G train, or take a short walk from the…

Today, we shipped an API for third party services to attach statuses to commits. We created this API to allow services to color the discussion on pull requests. For example,…

Djangonauts Unite! Join @bryanveloso and me tonight for drinks and excellent conversation, with GitHub picking up the tab. When? Tuesday, September 4th (tonight) at 9pm. Where? Tortoise & Hare

Many GitHubbers are parents, so optimizing for happiness means thinking about the entire, extended GitHub family. We work on our own schedule, from anywhere in the world, doing the best…

This has been an epic week of bringing GitHub Training to beautiful Vancouver Island with event after event. We’re wrapping it up with a drinkup after the public @CVWebPosse Courtenay…

Deploying is a big part of the lives of most GitHub employees. We don’t have a release manager and there are no set weekly deploys. Developers and designers are responsible…