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We’re happy to announce a new Patchwork hack night at the beautiful ustwo studio in London. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…

We’ve supported image viewing and diffing for quite some time now, but today we’re happy to announce that we’re adding PSD files to the images we support for this. Any…

Back in April I said we would share the new initiatives we’re launching to ensure GitHub is a welcoming and inclusive company. This work is long term and will remain…

A GitHub user group in Tokyo is organizing an event, GitHub Kaigi on June 1st, and a number of GitHubbers (@cobyism, @devinreams, @dice, @dsorkin, @jordanmccullough, @kansaichris, @nathansobo) will be in…

The most organized people know that finishing a task rarely involves just one step. That’s why we’re excited to announce nested task lists! For example: – [ ] Figure out…

GitHub is being used today to build scientific software that’s helping find Earth-like planets in other solar systems, analyze DNA, and build open source rockets. Seeing these projects and all…

Come share some 🍻 and ☕ on GitHub, Friday May 30th at 19:00! @danishkhan and @joewadcan will be at Halbite 3 to hang out with our local GitHub users in…

Come enjoy snacks and drinks this Wednesday, May 14th at Faro! I’ll be in town speaking at HelsinkiJS and then looking forward to meeting the lovely GitHub users in Helsinki…

Lots of businesses today are experimenting with open source, both by maintaining open source projects and also by internalizing open source workflows. However, adopting open source tools in a business…

Update, December 15, 2016: We’ve rolled back this feature. For the most up-to-date information on Gists, check out our Help documentation. Because we love sharing, we use Gist every day…

We’re excited to share some recent improvements to GitHub Pages, which you may have already noticed rolling out over the past several weeks: Additional metadata for organization pages Many large…

Come hang out with @matthewmccullough and @brntbeer on Monday, May 12th at Teerenpeli! We will be attending the Turku Agile Day conference, hanging out with the organizers and speakers Monday…

@afeld, @rothsa, @azizshamim, @asenchi, @technicalpickles, @chrishunt, @gorsuch (and more) …a lively bunch of Hubbers are in town and we’re ready to drink 🍵 like the 🐟🐟🐟🐟 Come say hello –…

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…