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Another Hacktoberfest has come and gone, and we couldn’t be more proud of your contributions. With over 200,000 merged pull requests in almost 65,000 repositories, you made this our biggest…

Several years ago, Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you have been able to use about a dozen themes to change the…

24 Pull Requests is an annual community-organized event encouraging developers to give back to open source projects over the holiday season. Be part of this year’s giving by submitting 24…

We welcome our robot overlords—or at least ones that fit conveniently on human-sized desks! Hubot, your friendly robot sidekick, is now in the GitHub Shop and ready to help you…

Working together on software is so much more than writing code. Processes like planning, analysis, design, user research, documentation, and general project decision-making all play a part in the build…

Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for…

Wilhelm Klopp is a student at University College London (UCL), a Campus Expert, and creator of Simple Poll—one of the most popular Slack integrations. He spent the summer of 2017…

How many students can help solve urgent problems within weeks of writing their first lines of code? In Taichi Furuhashi’s “Introduction to Spatial Information Systems I” at Aoyama Gakuin University…

Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates, get to know how your peers think, and learn new skills. Unfortunately, writing code together can be…

Today we’re welcoming four new apps to GitHub Marketplace that’ll help you out with code review, deployment, and localization for your projects. Code Review SideCI is a code review assistant…

Just because a repository isn’t actively developed anymore and you don’t want to accept additional contributions doesn’t mean you want to delete it. Now archive repositories on GitHub to make…

Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team’s quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…

Temperatures are dropping, and so is this reflective new hoodie. Layer up, grab a hot beverage, and cozy up into fall while reflecting on all the commits you’ve made this…

Game Off—our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source is officially underway. The theme for this year’s jam is throwback. Let your imagination run wild and interpret that in any…

The open source community proves that when creative people get together on an open platform, great things happen: Code gets better, new technologies emerge, and the way we build software…