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A few months ago I contacted one of my favorite local San Francisco artists, Sirron Norris, to see if he would create a custom piece for us featuring the Octocat,…

Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…

Here at GitHub we take our t-shirts seriously. So far we’ve produced the world famous “fork you” shirt, and the sold-out limited edition “all your rebase are belong to us”…

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…

I’d like to welcome Basho, the makers of Riak, to GitHub. Mark Phillips posted to the Riak mailing list that they have started developing Riak and their other projects primarily…

We’ll be holding a GitHub Drinkup on Tuesday October 19th at 20:00 at Botequim Informal Leblon in Rio de Janeiro. Come have a beer and get some GitHub stickers! (Thanks…

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…

We’re getting back into the swing of meetups and would love it if you would join us this Thursday, October 14th at Thee Parkside. Its supposed to be a beautiful…

We’d like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for…

In our quest to make GitHub Jobs a great place for job seekers and employers we’re rolling out a new feature: Company Spotlights. What are they? Short interviews with awesome…

Update: Uploads have been deprecated A couple of weeks ago, downloads on GitHub were everywhere — we had the Download Source buttons, the Downloads tab, and, some clicks away, perhaps…

The Ruby and Rails European Conference is being held on October 21-22nd at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. Also, Corey Haines is putting on another Code Retreat on the 23rd.…

GitHub’s very own Eston Bond designed some awesome business cards. And yes, that’s an embossed octocat.

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…