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Avery Pennarun is tracking Windows using Git. The post is just insane.  A taste: I had to try it, of course. I went into ~/win, typed “git init”, and…

JeremyBanks and davglass have been busy: they’ve rewritten my gist.rb command line tool in Python. Check out davglass’ gist.py for the code and some enhanced functionality. #Creates a new Gist…

Ilya Grigorik has posted an article on visualizing with code_swarm. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own Scott Chacon. A video of Rails’ commit history is available in…

Angelo DiNardi has put the previous incarnation of CSH’s Drink machine’s touchscreen software on GitHub as csh-js-touchscreen. The Drink machine is a soda dispenser with a touchscreen interface that can…

Gareth Rushgrove recently gave a presentation on Django Testing. It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his django-test-extensions. Thanks Gareth! (As an aside,…

Plenty of awesome projects this week! Oh, you want to be featured too? It’s easy! Featured Project ioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code…

ClickToFlash is a plugin for WebKit that prevents Adobe Flash content from automatically loading. Instead, it replaces the content with a placeholder that you can click to load the original…

Ever wanted to run a single command in your website’s images directory and have every image losslessly optimized (compressed) in place? Now you can, with the smusher gem. I just…

Want an easier way to manage all your conversation on GitHub? Check out CommitChat. They’re currently in a closed beta but you can sign up to join.  Great job…

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

If you’re in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…

Please read GitHub Help – Setting up a custom domain with Pages for the most up-to-date information on setting up a CNAME on your account.

script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle. A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds…

BlogBridge looks pretty interesting: an open source, cross platform RSS reader. Their visual tour shows off many of the innovative features. And guess what? They’re hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/pitosalas/blogbridge …

The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki.  From the site: If…