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This is just great: NCSA Mosaic on GitHub at http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic. img http://img.skitch.com/20100308-pw11fgabs4ukqf89c29dy6wipn.png http://github.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic This now joins the Quake source as one of my favorite old school projects. (Hat tip flangy)
It’s about time – the GitHub drinkup is moving to the peninsula! One week only, don’t miss out! If you’re a peninsula dweller like me, join me at CityPub in…
Picking up where Kyle left off in his Branch List post, we’re all very excited to announce a new feature designed to ease the process of comparing two points in…
Git’s branching model is one of it’s best features. Branches are cheap, fast and extremely flexible. They’re great for developing features, maintaining old releases, or just plain experimentation. If you…
According to git-checkout(1): “You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD”. Git is your Friend, not a Foe explains how this is possible.…
Over the past few months I’ve been working on a major new version of Ernie, the RPC server I wrote to power GitHub’s sharded file server architecture. As a reminder,…
CoffeeScript (.coffee) LotteryDraw: { play: -> result: LotteryTicket.new_random() winners: {} this.tickets.each (buyer, ticket_list) -> ticket_list.each (ticket) -> score: ticket.score(result) return if score is 0 winners[buyer] ||= [] winners[buyer].push([ticket, score]) this.tickets:…
You may think that the location of this weeks drinkup is a subtle way to cast in our lot with a particular side of the age old conundrum, ‘Pirates or…
Ever since we introduced the file upload section for repos, the two requests we’ve received the most have been for a no-flash alternative and download stats. Today we’re introducing both.…
Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…
Check it out. We’re doing a repeat venue. STOP CRYING. We’ll see you at Thieves Tavern tomorrow, Thursday February 11th at 8:30pm. Here’s a second chance for you to not…
As always, if you have neat projects you want to show off send me a message! I usually try to keep a balance of languages/domains between the posts, so don’t…
Following three months of near 100% uptime, we’ve just been through three major outages in as many days. I wanted to take some time to detail the problems and what…
@NV has ported ucnv’s Diff for Gist Greasemonkey script to a Chrome Extension. img http://img.skitch.com/20100127-nxct1q4y315uwen8nr6w896upk.png http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ekibhngllckenihijddjkmehiocljcpc Pretty cool – I’ve been using it since I first saw it. And if…
Join us on Thursday January 28th at 8:30pm for a drink at the Irish Bank! We’d hate to have to release the hounds. Stop by for a surprise visitor!
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