The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re back in Bend Oregon for Ruby on Ales which means its time for another GitHub drinkup! Two GitHubbers (Brandon Keepers and Jonathan Hoyt) will be at JC’s Bar and…

We’re having a long-overdue GitHub drinkup in London this coming Thursday the 8th of March from 7pm, upstairs at the Big Chill House. Five GitHubbers (Zach, Simon, Danny, Josh and…

The GDC (Game Developers Conference), the world’s largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event will be in San Francisco next week. We’ll be there with our Octobooth March 7th –…

This weekend GitHub had the amazing opportunity to host the first CoderDojo session in the United States. I can happily say it was one of the coolest things I’ve had…

GitHub is all about social coding. So today we’re rolling out a blob contributions box. You can see it on every blob (file) view on GitHub. It’ll show you the…

Since we couldn’t get enough of Miami during PyCodeConf, Zach and I will be back this weekend for SuperConf. We’re having a GitHub Drinkup on Friday at Lost Weekend and…

It’s that time of year when Microsoft invites a gaggle of geeks to the Seattle area for its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit. So what better excuse to host a…

Update: We’ve discontinued this app. We’re proud to announce that Gaug.es for Android is now available in the Android Market! The app provides a quick overview of your traffic, top…

Today, we’re rolling out a new feature that makes Pull Requests easier to create: After pushing a branch to GitHub, you (and only you) will see that branch at the…

Today we pushed a redesigned feature that highlights language statistics on repository home pages, allowing you to quickly see what languages a repository contains. It’s a great way to get…

Today we pushed a redesigned settings page that will make it easier to find and edit settings for your personal account as well as any organizations you own. The major…

It hasn’t exactly been a good week for GitHub’s nines. Just under an hour of total downtime over the past week comes to 99.46% uptime – far below our standards.…

Sit back, close your eyes, and think about how good you are at coding. Man, you’re awesome. When did you learn how to be so awesome? Now just think how…

Dear Mom, Things are going great here in SF. I’m collaborating everyday. I miss you and the family. But don’t worry, I’m going out with friends this Thursday night! XOXO,…

GitHub and Heroku have decided to join forces to bring you a drink up in Sydney this Wednesday (8th of February), so come on down to the King St Brewhouse…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the semi-regular chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz. For previous editions, check out The Reflog…

Mother nature’s blast of snow hampered the first attempt at this in January. A re-placement of the event to April 9th should help to mitigate the weather risks. The Event…

Almost four years and hundreds of drinkups and conferences later, GitHub was sorely missing in action from one entire continent: Africa. So, let’s fix that. (Photo credit: capetowndailyphoto.com) I’m here…

If you’re in the Atlanta area this Thursday January 26th, come join us at Fadó at 8:30pm and have a pint or a dram on GitHub. January 26th 8:30pm Fadó…

We are hosting the SpreeConf After Party. Come mingle with us and the Spree Team. If you don’t have your ticket yet, use the promo code ‘GITHUB’ to receive a…

A few ambitious developers, Andrew Tobin, Brendan Forster, and Paul Jenkins, have created a great community project for 2012, entitled “Code52”.  The description from the site says it…