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Have a nerdy writer in your life? Think they could benefit from version control? Point them at Flashbake by @commandline. Or, even better, point them at this Lifehacker article on…

‘Nuff said. Grab the code and check the README. img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-8ik7kuq27mn2rk6ni5thn5nmjq.png http://github.com/mattball/MBCoverFlowView Nicely done @mattball!

iOctocat is now available on the App Store: http://itunes.com/apps/ioctocat @dbloete has written a blog post announcing it and promising some cool future features (like commit details). img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-fhj6p5benrh1h21ci62ik3bpas.png http://dbloete.github.com/ioctocat Naturally…

GitHub Voice by @tristandunn is a UserVoice-like jQuery plugin for GitHub Issues. Add it to your project’s page or website for ultimate sleekness: img http://img.skitch.com/20090429-fjd5int2sdpnf1jy8k7bxaxyhs.png http://github.com/tristandunn/github-voice Grab the code from…

BusinessWeek has named the GitHub cofounders some of the best young entrepreneurs of 2009. img http://img.skitch.com/20090423-84bcfw91kyr181seqc25dhfedh.jpg http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0421_best_young_entrepreneurs/17.htm Thanks to everyone who tweeted their support and thanks to BusinessWeek for the…

Most repos use the branch master as their default, but Git doesn’t force this upon you and why should we? Now you can change it to whatever you want. This…

Please welcome @qrush (Nick Quaranto) to the core Jekyll team (now consisting of the two of us)! img http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb8975af8e49e19e3dd6b6b84a542e26?s=200 He’ll be helping me keep Jekyll active and awesome by assisting…

Amanda developer @djmitche writes: I’m a developer of Amanda, which has been around and open source for over 15 years, but has always had a fairly small development community. We’re…

@mojombo, @pjhyett and I will be doing a panel at Open Source Bridge in June on Bootstrapping Your Open Source Business. img http://opensourcebridge.org/badges/submit240.png http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/270 It looks like it’ll be a…

img http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/images/gfm.png The move to GitHub Flavored Markdown for all messages and comments on the site is now complete! Any comments or messages created after 2009-04-20 19:00:00 UTC will be…

As soon as we rolled out version 2 of the API, people started building things with it. Here are some interesting Issues based projects: img http://img.skitch.com/20090420-bwyj4aat2skhi4dstbeu8jum17.jpg lighthouse-to-github – Lighthouse to…

Sorry about the missed weeks here folks, hopefully I’ll be back on track now. Let’s get started! Featured Project canary has generated quite a buzz on Twitter this past week…

I wanted to take a moment to update everyone on the stickers we offered a while ago. Tom asked you to email him if you were interested in some stickers…

A lot of people were excited about the Issues release yesterday, but many asked for an API for it. Because we love you all and you’re so good to us,…

Say hello to Melissa, everyone. She tweets as @luckiestmonkey, tumbles at http://luckiestmonkey.tumblr.com, codes as @luckiestmonkey, and now works for GitHub! img http://img.skitch.com/20090417-gtrdta222aruyhyuhjm8gcj5c1.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelcambre/3130143200 She’ll help us run our growing business,…