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With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned…

GitHub is hosting a drinkup in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday starting at 7pm. Come by and have a beer on us while enjoying great conversations with other NoVA hackers! Wednesday,…

This week in Brooklyn are two awesome events, Brooklyn Beta and Brooklyn Alpha. We will be hosting a drinkup this Wednesday at 10:30pm at Boat. It’s a cute hipster dive…

I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year GitHub is offering a Pinktocat t-shirt to help the cause. All proceeds of this fabulous limited edition shirt will be donated…

We’ve taken the Octobooth out for its second conference, JavaOne. Stop by the booth and say hello. Join us and our friends from Tasktop for a drink at Jasper’s Corner…

GitHub was recently featured on SF’s local CBS news in a segment about proposed bike legislation. Our very own @kamzilla can be seen representing “forward thinking companies like GitHub” in…

Our blog RSS feed has moved to http://github.com/blog.atom Update your feed reader now if you want to stay up to date with all the exciting GitHub action. We’ve moved off…

Greg Borenstein (he hooked up our stoplight to our ci build system last year, remember?) and Devin Chalmers just announced that Drift is available on the App Store. Drift is…

Today marks the initial release of two GitHub plugins for the popular Maven build system. Downloads Plugin The download plugin allows you to upload build artifacts as GitHub downloads when…

A few of us GitHubbers will be in Seattle on Saturday, October 1st, and we’d like to invite folks out for drinks. We’re heading out to Linda’s in Seattle starting…

RubyConf is this week and a gaggle of GitHubbers will be there. Make sure you catch the great talks by @mojombo and @holman on Saturday. We’re also sponsoring the first…

The new Issues Dashboard. Now you can get all your issues on all your projects. Similar to the Pull Request Dashboard, the Issues Dashboard consolidates all of your issues in…

In the spirit of supporting our community, we’re going to offer frequent Office Hours events in which any user of GitHub can ask Git and GitHub questions in a public…

Our first two September instances of the free “The Basics of GitHub” class were maxed out to the 100 person capacity within days of their announcement. If you weren’t able…

GitHub is in Atlanta, GA on Monday, September 26th, and we’re buying drinks! Five Seasons Brewery Westside Upstairs on the Patio 1000 Marietta St NW # 204, Atlanta, GA 30318…

I’m simply loving working for the :octocat: as “Trainer of everything Git” and am amplifying the number of training options and events that we do here at GitHub. I didn’t…

Do you love checkboxes more than our resident checker @kneath? If so, head on over and fill out the 2011 Git User’s Survey and help the git community become more…