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I’m currently at the FOSSLC conference in Ottawa, CA and we’re going out to Dantessa Italian Bar tonight starting at 21:00 (9pm for us Americans). GitHub will be buying a…

Earlier today we rolled out a minor design update to the site. Notably, we have a brand new home page (remember, you can always get to the homepage at http://github.com/home):…

We’ve been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we’re launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to…

You all know about GitHub Jobs by now, so we thought we’d kick off the official launch by highlighting some cool jobs we’ve found in the past seven days. Some…

Sorry for the last minute notice, but GitHub will be buying beer for geeks at Flat Top Johnny’s in Cambridge tonight (Tuesday, August 10th) around 9:30. We’re piggybacking on the…

We added a special header to all outgoing repository and direct message notifications that should make it much easier to filter emails: Direct messages get a List-ID of user.github.com, while…

In a little over twelve hours from now we’ll be flipping the switch on GitHub Jobs. That means you only have until midnight PDT to post a job at our…

I’m in Boulder again and it’s time for another GitHub Meetup: Boulder Edition! Once again, we’ll meet at my favorite South Boulder bar: The Southern Sun. Here’s the details: When:…

I’m currently at the Yet Another Perl Conference, Europe (YAPC::EU) doing some Git talkin’ and one of the big talks here was by Patrick Michaud (pmichaud) about the very recent…

Working on a Mac app? Writing the next big iPhone fad? Using GitHub should be a bit nicer now:   We’re now suppressing .pbxproj and .xib files in commits and…

Following our one millionth repository, we’d like to welcome a couple new notable faces around GitHub. The first is the Mono project. Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s…

Last night, the one millionth git repository was created on GitHub. That is a heck of a lot of repositories. Since we first launched, there have been a lot of…

The Software Craftsmanship North America 2010 conference looks pretty interesting and has a killer speaker lineup. Gonna be in Chicago in October? Check it out. Want to be in Chicago…

When we launched Compare View earlier this year, we knew there was a killer feature still missing: the ability to compare branches across repositories. Easy forking and the networks that…

A scheduled DB maintenance went haywire yesterday, taking a number of repositories temporarily offline. While pushing and pulling were briefly offline (and for that we’re sorry!), the first phase of…