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We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…

We’ve always had the ability to embed multiple file gists: Your browser does not support IFrames But today we added the ability to embed specific files in a multi-file gist!…

In SF for RubyConf? Join us this Thursday the 19th at Zeitgeist (map) starting at 9pm! Zeitgeist has pitchers and ample outside seating, so bring a jacket. Also: cash only.…

img http://theroyalgeorgewc2.co.uk/images/home5.jpg It’s the last stop on our Europe tour and we’re capping things off with an evening at the Royal George near Soho in London at 19:00 on Monday…

img http://img.skitch.com/20091111-bir68bb7kn76kdpdtr1988m1yr.png Continuing our tour of Europe, PJ, and Scott, and I will be in Oslo on Friday the 13th and we’d like to invite you to join us at…

This is the second of many themed Rebases to come…our first was the book edition. In related news, the column has also been going on for over a year now!…

On my first day at GitHub, I asked the crew what they wanted to me to do around here. Their response was something along the lines of “make GitHub sexy”…

Tom, PJ, and Scott will be hanging out at MOOD Club at 21:30 tonight (Saturday) in Poznań, Poland following the first day of the RuPy Conference. If you’re local or…

Behold the power of open source! @adamcooke has reskinned Resque’s web UI. img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-8c41b9jmdtyc79jc76yap53igc.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-jsqydh9jgg9ju4tkt66jqm2399.png img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-cs222tun9yna4s46ywt7jqdjqk.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-k3iuxw8hqsce86b5pdphsctsg4.png Also now includes live updating: img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-1nqebsad9kuac6ixaqgykqmste.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-88wn3wtc9jnacas3mytxxwn6c9.png Thanks Adam!

Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…

@ab5tract has a great post looking at GitHub “through the lens of the ethics of commons-based peer production.” A key quote which puts it in perspective for me is this:…

Its time for a meetup! This week we’ll be going to a faraway place, a place once thought to only exist in legend, a land they call the ‘Richmond’. According…

We’ve had a number of inquiries into why we chose ldirectord as our primary load balancer for the new GitHub architecture. As I’ve mentioned before (and more on this later),…

At 07:53 PDT this morning the site was hit with an abnormal number of SSH connections. The script that runs after an SSH connection is accepted makes an RPC call…

jQuery, which we use for GitHub itself, is now hosted right here: http://github.com/jquery/jquery img http://img.skitch.com/20091029-dbpp26n16mqwhxgrbscsgabf89.png http://github.com/jquery/jquery If you’ve never contributed to the project, now’s a great time. Welcome, team!