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Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a “public /…

If you received two email receipts tonight it’s because we accidentally billed you twice. That said, the second charge has already been voided. In the craziness of migrating hosts we…

Thanks to the move to Rackspace, our Pages server’s IP has changed. Pages users that have A records pointing to the EngineYard Pages server need to update their DNS info…

Hi folks, if you’re reading this, you’re on the new servers! I wanted to put up a quick update so that everyone knows what to expect going into our first…

BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…

 This Thursday, September 24th ride your pony on down to this week’s drinkup at Homestead, 7:30pm. Buy a bowl of peanuts for a buck and throw the shells on…

On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…

Both user and repository renaming are temporarily disabled. Sorry about that! It’s for a good cause. Should be back in a week.

I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack Watch the project and start…

We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You’d take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…

In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We’re aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…

As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the “/tree/default_branch” suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course “tree/master” will 301 redirect, don’t worry.) Enjoy!

Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…

Hot on the heels of my git setup script, user Sirupsen has made a Starting with Git guide. Okay, that’s a lie, he actually published his guide two days before…

The results have been tallied and the curtains have closed. The 2009 GitHub Contest prize of a Large account and a bottle of 20 year Pappy Van Winkle goes to…