The latest blogs from GitHub

This morning I downloaded and ran Frock, a flocking chicken simulation written in Lua with Löve (a 2D game framework for Lua). Why? Not entirely sure, except that I remember…

Yahoo recently extended YQL to enable developers to define custom table schemas for 3rd party services. Seeing this, @spullara decided to collect some custom table schemas together in one place.…

Edit: This feature has been replaced by Releases. This evening we rolled out a Downloads section for all repositories wherein repo members can upload files. Tag releases are also listed…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-xrypc923ceu1pbj3kwxx714gm3.png Tonight we rolled out a massive change to how we generate downloadable archives. Now when you hit the zip or tgz icon you’ll see a “loading” box as…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-ki5psk2u56umjyyrjexs7ejrid.png http://code.quirkey.com The most rewarding part of running GitHub is seeing all the great code and ideas that people are showing off via the site. Earlier tonight I saw…

img http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3258791960_c2411f2925.jpg Starring @3n, @takeo, and @lansing, and taken by @KirinDave (my old coworkers from Powerset/Microsoft). Some sleuthing shows this to have been taken at Casa Bonita in Denver. In…

Featured Project visor adds a system-wide hotkey that can bring up your terminal, much like games that allow instant access to developer console to tweak settings and run commands. Based…

The very clever @tlrobinson has taken the Game of Life and used it to generate arbitrary line drawings, starting with the Reddit alien. The code is called life-gen and hosted…

For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…

ObjectiveResource is “a framework for the iPhone that makes interacting with Ruby on Rails applications dead simple.” Basically, it’s a port of ActiveResource to Objective-C. Want to drive a Rails…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-q26tmesnecrjwi2bjmecm1qyi5.png Hyde is @lakshmivyas’ evil Python transformation of my own Ruby Jekyll project, according to the backstory: About a week back I wanted to open source a few jQuery…

Getting a clone URL into your clipboard is now just a single click away!

Fabric is “designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-mu1i9qjynj9r6fu467cwbsxdwq.png http://www.nongnu.org/fab It’s primarily for deploying changes to web…

@mileszs and Davey Strus have compiled a great list of resources for Vimers of all shapes and sizes. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-m3xmcardc6crk8nki92h3n2dss.png http://mileszs.github.com Best of all, it’s a GitHub page – which…

JUnit, the Java Unit Testing framework, is now available on GitHub at http://github.com/KentBeck/junit. The impact graph is quite fun – I didn’t know @clarkware was a contributor! Welcome to GitHub,…

Chiplog is a personal journal written in Django by @trey and @myles. It’s not a blog, more like a Twitter that’s only for you. img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-mjfkj5fg19c3pd41pb33aigtuk.png http://trey.github.com/chiplog img http://img.skitch.com/20090205-87r7udtb99t2i2u9j5a2t1gcij.png http://treypiepmeier.com/code/chiplog…

img http://img.skitch.com/20090204-eji9cs6mj3sw2pt5qfj7s64u27.png I found this open source recipe for Japanese curry this evening after a hard day’s work and it made me laugh (read to the end). I love seeing…

What’s Emoji? According to this Ars Technica article, “Emoji icons offer a wide range of pre-built little pictures that add a little visual splash to your messaging.” img http://img.skitch.com/20090203-b8es9b5ftp4i8ay922m7ihrum5.png http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/freemoji-access-emoji-for-free.ars…

@judofyr has created a simple project called Grancher which helps convert directories got git branches. It’s perfect for GitHub Pages. Check out the repo or blog post. Thanks Magnus!

eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…

The unstoppable Dr Nic has just dropped another amazing piece of software in our laps. This time it’s ChocTop, and it’s hosted right here on GitHub. From the README: Package…