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Ten weeks ago we debuted Atom, the new text editor that’s deeply programmable but also easy to use. Starting today, Atom is available for download to everyone–completely free and open…

We just shipped our latest GitHub Guide: Hello-World. The “Hello World” project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming and now there is one just for GitHub. Hello repositories and…

Come share a smörgåsbord of platters and beverages on GitHub on Saturday, May 10th, at Hemma. @cobyism and @benogle will be in town for ScotlandJS, but come along even if…

Documenting the code you share on GitHub can contribute tremendously to the success of your project. When your documentation is easy to access and read, people can better understand how…

A little over 6 years ago we launched github-services as an open source project. We’ve had a great deal of success with github-services, but the growing number of supported services…

Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I’m…

Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…

Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a…

Come join @asenchi, @leongersing, @bkeepers, @spicycode, and me this Saturday, April 26 for a drinkup at Bell’s Brewery. We’ll be in town for Kalamazoo X but you need not be…

@mattgraham and @southgate will be in Recife for the Abril Pro Ruby conference on April 24th. We’ll be running a workshop earlier in the day, but if you can’t make…

We love using GitHub to write notes on specific lines in a diff — now it’s super easy to do from any smartphone! Just bring up your favorite pull request…

On April 7, 2014 information was released about a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, the cryptography library that powers the vast majority of private communication across the Internet. This library…

Sometimes when you’re in the zone, you get a ton of work done before you have a chance to pause and commit. You want to break the commit down to…

We’ve added support for editing labels on existing issues with the l hotkey. You can also edit milestones and assignees the same way.

At GitHub, we use lists for collaborating on software development, because lists are a simple and powerful tool for collaborating on anything. That’s why we’re introducing better visualization of list…