GitHub Meetup SF #20
Join us Thursday July 15th at Club Waziema- part Ethiopian restaurant, part dive bar, all kitsch. Besides the normal meeting for the sake of meeting, this week we’re celebrating Rick…
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DB Maintenance Today @ 18:00 PST
We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) at 18:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while this takes place, but all data…
GitHub in your language
Edit (11/18/2016): GitHub no longer supports languages other than English. Today, thanks to our great community, we’re turning on a number of languages that you can view GitHub in other…
Meet Nodeload, the new Download server
I recently launched the first GitHub node.js project: nodeload. Nodeload replaces the ruby git archive download server. Basically, any time you download a tarball or zip file of any repository…
How we deploy new features
There’s been some recent discussion about rolling out new features. Ross at Flickr talked about using flags and flippers. Forrst mentioned their use of user buckets. The nice thing about…
Do you use Git on Windows?
If so, we want to hear from you! Help us make Git on Windows better by answering a few short questions.
Fork You
I suppose we should do something with this warehouse full of Fork You shirts we have. Starting to look like an episode of Hoarders up in here. Hey, you want…
Organizations for Small Businesses
Update [January 1, 2017]: Our pricing plans have changed. For information on our latest plans, check out our pricing page. When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the…
Introducing Organizations
Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…
Starring Gists
If you have ever forked a Gist just so you can remember which one it is, now you can just star it. There is now a ‘star’ button on each…
Scheduled Fileserver Maintenance Today @ 22:00 PST
Update: The new fileserver is online and working now. Following up on last week’s fileserver problems, we will be swapping in the new server tonight (Wednesday, June 23rd) at 22:00…
Twitter’s on GitHub
It just occurred to me that we never mentioned Twitter’s been open sourcing code like crazy on GitHub over the past few months. They’ve put together a really great Twitter…
Scheduled DB Maintenance Today @ 22:00 PST
UPDATE: The upgrade ran without problems. We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Monday, June 21, 2010) at 22:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while…
WebPulp.tv Interview with Tom Preston-Werner
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…
Postmortem of last week’s fileserver failure
As you may know, on thursday, 2010-06-10, we had a machine in one of our fileserver pairs fail. This caused an outage for all users on that fileserver, and corrupted…
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