The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
Maintainer spotlight: Courtney Wilburn
In the month of February, we’re featuring Black maintainers that push open source software forward. Read on to find out about Courtney Wilburn, the maintainer of three open source projects: the Green Book App, Dank Memes, and EvictionAnd.
Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program
Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.
Join us for Patchwork Austin
Patchwork is headed to Austin! This event is open to newcomers to GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn.
Maintainer spotlight: William Shepherd
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source. William is the maintainer of GitHub…
Introducing draft pull requests
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
The EU Copyright Directive: what happens from here
The EU Copyright Directive has come down to a final vote. Read on for more on what’s at stake and how the developer community shaped the debate.
Join GitHub for Craftwork San Francisco on February 20
Join us at Craftwork to learn how to use both the GitHub API to build better developer workflows.
Mission report: Git Merge 2019
This year, Git Merge went to Brussels to host two days of all things Git. The event brought together hundreds of business leaders, source control teams, and developers—people who have a vested interest in Git and companies that hire Git contributors.
How GitHub Classroom and Travis CI improved students’ grades
Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI.
Maintainer spotlight: Rachel Green and Mark Nyon
Mark and Rachel are both maintainers on the End Bias Wiki (EBWiki) project. Read more about their mission to tell the stories of people of color who have died as a result of police action.
User owned projects—your personal workspace
We know everyone has their own tooling and workflow preferences, which is why we’re excited to unveil our latest release: user owned project boards. Setting up a personal space for managing your work, ideas or, dare we say, bugs, should be possible…so we created user owned project boards to better support your individual needs.
An open source parser for GitHub Actions
Update: This blog post is no longer relevant with the update to GitHub Actions in August 2019. See the GitHub Actions documentation for more information. Since the beta release of…
Release Radar · January 2019
Welcome to the January 2019 edition of Release Radar, where we share new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they’re all projects shipped by you.
Maintainer spotlight: Safia Abdalla
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source.
Keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date with GitHub and Dependabot
The following is a guest post written by Dependabot’s co-founder, @greystiel. Modern software often relies on hundreds of open source components, all of which need to be kept secure. Staying on top…
Welcome to GitHub, Shanku Niyogi
Millions of people rely on GitHub today, from their very first steps on their journey as developers, to contributing their best ideas to the world. Today, I am incredibly excited and honored to join GitHub to lead the Product Team.
Congrats to the first class of Campus Advisors
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The Check-In webcast
Join us for the latest episode of The Check-In webcast, our quarterly round-up of what’s new at GitHub for our business customers.
The State of the Octoverse: machine learning
We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub. Read on to learn more about what we found.
GitHub’s policy predictions for 2019
In our latest policy predictions for 2019, we explore five trends that might profoundly affect the environment in which developers build and ship software for years to come.
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