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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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