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Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.

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Hack your Kinect on GitHub

libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few…

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Big Service Hook Update

I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…

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JSLint is on GitHub

We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…

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Today’s Outage

A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a configuration error caused it to run against our production environment rather than our testing environment. Before every…

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Sidejack Prevention

A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user’s HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…

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GitHub South America

GitHub will be visiting South America this month! If you’re attending any of these conferences, say hi to the GitHubbers attending — either defunkt, schacon, or both, as indicated by…

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