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Orlando Drinkup this Thursday, Feb 3
Update: The drinkup is now at 10pm! I’ll be in Orlando on Thursday doing some Git training at Full Sail University in Orlando. While I’m there why don’t we do…
GitHub + Rebase Support in IntelliJ
The IntelliJ platform has had GitHub integration for a few months, but today they rolled out Advanced GitHub Integration: Rebase My GitHub Fork. What is it? Rebase support. Now staying…
Refreshed Pull Request Discussions
We just rolled out a slightly redesigned Pull Request discussion view. You can check it out on any pull request like this one on rack/rack. This refresh opens up the…
GitHub Drinkup Cambridge – Feb 10th
It’s that time again. GitHub will be in Cambridge, MA on Feb 10th and we’re doing a drinkup at John Harvards Brew House. And by “GitHub” I mean me. If…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PST
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…
Git-powered wikis improved
Many of you already know about Gollum, the git-powered wiki system that we use for every GitHub Wiki. While the Wikis have been proven great for those that know git…
Mind Control with Frickin Lasers
Several months ago I hosted a GitHub meetup in Boston to which tons of local geeks attended and drank free beer. During that meeting, I talked to a local graduate…
3D GitHub Badge with Pure HTML/CSS
Nico Hagenburger released a nifty bit of HTML/CSS today that allows you to get the famous “Fork me on GitHub” banner on the corner of your site. But this time,…
Recent Services Interruptions
Here’s a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we’re doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first “real” workday for…
Meet Petros
If you’ve emailed GitHub Support recently you may have met Petros. He’s the incredibly helpful second half of our support team, and today he starts working full time at GitHub.…
GitHub meetup Portland edition
Join us on Wednesday, December 15th for a meetup in beautiful (albeit damp) Portland OR. Among other things, we will be celebrating what is forecasted to be the day of…
Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App
Erik Michaels-Ober started a Kickstarter project to fund Hubcap, a proposed native Mac client for GitHub. The plan is to bring the elegance of various Twitter clients to GitHub and…
GitHub Meetup SF #23
Welcome to the holiday edition of GitHub meetups! Its exactly like all of the other meetups, but its in December. Think of it as a congratulations, you made it to…
The Tree Slider
Those of you running recent versions of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox 4 may have noticed some changes to tree browsing on GitHub. The new HTML5 History API (which really has…
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