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Welcome to the second edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos. For previous articles, check out The Reflog Archive. Featured Repo of…

PJ and I are in Taipei for OSDC.TW and will be hosting a drinkup for all our Taipei friends at the Juliana Taipei at 8pm tonight (Sat, 3/26). If you…

Ever wish you could summon a particular someone to take a look at an issue or pull request? Now you can: When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere in the…

Check it. Blacktocat’s back with a whole new direction. He’s exited stealth mode and is ready for primetime, now with a stylish, more visible front logo. Octopint Glasses are here…

Rick Olson, Brian Lopez and myself will be attending Ruby on Ales (still time to grab a ticket!) later this week in Bend, OR. We’ll be hosting a meetup at…

Welcome to the first edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly installment chronicling awesome GitHub repos, brought to you by Kenneth Reitz, one of the classy gentlemen…

Now when you view commits that include images you’ll be presented with four ways to view them: 2-up, Swipe, Onion Skin. 2-Up is the default mode, which lets you get…

We have a 🆕 and very 🆒 🎁 for all of you. 🆗 so we were drinking 🍺 from our new Kegerator (✨❤✨). Holman was excited to use his new…

Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for serving static assets. We’ve also rolled out some general asset delivery optimizations. Depending on how far…

Scott and I will be hosting a drinkup at the Delirium Cafe on Monday (March 14). They have over 2000 beers on the menu. We expect every local GitHubber to…

Have a LinkedIn account? Add the GitHub Application for social coding goodness. The cool thing about this app is you can use it to find projects other people in your…

You should notice a small change to the From address on your email notifications now: they’re no longer from no-reply@github.com. We’re now accepting replies from most email notifications that you’ll…

Today Apple released Xcode 4. We’re pretty excited over here because Xcode 4 is the first Xcode release to support git natively. What’s even more, new projects default to git…

UPDATE: Dumb HTTP has been disabled as of Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 2AM PST. If you’d like a little more time to transition, please contact support and we can…

Earlier today, we received an alert from our monitoring system that a disk in our active MySQL server’s RAID10 array had started to clock up some media errors. Being a…

The service hook payloads now have the following new fields: distinct=true for commits that are new to the repository created=true for new branches deleted=true for branch deletions base=NAME for the…

Thanks to rodjek and technoweenie the trailing “.git” is now optional when cloning GitHub repos using SmartHTTP: $ git clone http://github.com/tpw/endo Cloning into endo… remote: Counting objects: 6, done. remote:…

It’s that time again. Sorry for the short notice Parisians, but tomorrow night (Friday, March 4) I will be hosting a drinkup at Patricks Irish Pub in Paris. A bunch…

Git is pretty awesome, right? Of course I’m right. If you didn’t think so, you wouldn’t be here. The trick is, Git is pretty damn confusing if you’ve never used…

About a year ago, I wrote a post talking about the avalanche of commits coming into GitHub. That Tuesday, GitHub received 33,154 pushes containing 109,290 commits. An insane number to…

$ python raffle.py And the winners are… *drumroll* graffic and dryan! Congrats to graffic and dryan! We’ll see you at PyCon 2011.