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We’ve started rolling out a new security feature called “Content Security Policy” or CSP. As a user, it will better protect your account against XSS attacks. But, be aware, it…

@wfarr and myself are in Nuremberg today attending PuppetCamp, and I’d love to share a drink with you and talk tech. Whether you’re in town for the conference or are…

Today we’re happy to release Pulse. Pulse is a great way to discover recent activity on projects. Maybe you haven’t checked on your favorite repository in a while or you…

We work very hard to keep GitHub fast. Ruby is not the fastest programming language, so we go to great lengths benchmarking and optimizing our large codebase: our goal is…

Today we are excited to ship a new iteration of our visual identity: an updated logo, an official mark, and an Octocat that conveys as much character as the Octocats…

There are a number of GitHubbers here in London for BACON this week, and it’d be lovely if you could join us tomorrow night for some drinks! The details Saturday,…

SXSW has come and gone, but Austin’s vibrant tech community remains. Whether you’re in town for Xamarin Evolve or not, join @jspahrsummers, @joshvera, and me Monday night for some drinks,…

Five years ago today, @defunkt, @pjhyett, and I gathered in our online chat room and prepared to push a commit to GitHub that would finally mark the public launch of…

Merging branches on GitHub is already pretty awesome, and today it gets a little bit better with a redesigned merge button. In addition to being easier to read, the new…

Today, we’re excited to 🚢 the latest release of GitHub for Mac with support for GitHub Enterprise. You’ll now be able to use all of your favorite Mac features, such…

Here at GitHub, we’re always excited to see people using GitHub to collaborate on all sorts of things, code or non-code. Today, we’re adding a third dimension by making it…

Join me Saturday, April 13, at the awesome Bell’s Brewery (yes, that Bell’s) for a night of drinks, friends, and GitHubbery. If you’re in town for Kalamazoo X then you’re…

There’s a litter of GitHubbers in Dublin this week for Brio and Úll (like really a LOT) so help us mark GitHub’s 5th BIRTHDAY with a pint or two (on…

Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…

We often like to think of text as a UI at GitHub. We use text to navigate our text editors, we use keyboard shortcuts to delete our email, and we…