The latest blogs from GitHub

You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you’ve always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…

Are you going to be in town for FOSDEM? We’d love if you joined us at our next Patchwork hack night. It will be on January 29, 2016 and will…

We hope you’ll join us for our next Patchwork hack night on January 25, at the London School of Economics in London. GitHubbers @johndbritton, @tracicakes, and @amosie, as well as…

We’re proud to kick off the new year by co-hosting Ladies that UX Amsterdam‘s January meetup! Join the Ladies that UX Amsterdam founders Jenny Shen and Nadia Udalova and members,…

If your New Year’s resolution was to update to a new version of Git, we’ve got good news. The Git community has just released Git 2.7.0, and we’d like to…

If you’re writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team’s primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…

We love the Ruby programming language for its natural, human-focused design philosophy and think you will too. That’s why we teamed up with Udacity to bring you three new Ruby…

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

Today GitHub is proud to host the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, at our SF office. We are thrilled to welcome him, his senior staff, community organizations,…

Every year during Computer Science Education Week, we have the opportunity to give back for an hour to teach students how to code. We’re following the example of Code.org, whose…

Swift, Apple’s powerful new programming language, is now open source on GitHub. Developers can submit bug fixes and enhancements, and help bring the language to new platforms. Open Source has…

At GitHub we place an emphasis on stability, availability, and performance. A large component of ensuring we excel in these areas is deploying services on bare-metal hardware. This allows us…

Let everyone around you know that your daily 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione (C8H10N4O2) / 3,5 Dicaffeoylquinic acid (C25H24O12) fix just might be radioactive with this new Atom mug. Only you will know the…

Our next Patchwork hack night will be on December 10, and will be co-hosted with our friends at The Cube in Athens, Greece. Please join us! GitHubbers @petros, @fernandez, @justinmccormick,…

We’re excited to announce that our next Patchwork hack night will be on December 3rd 2015, and will be co-hosted with our friends at Ecole 42 in Paris. GitHubbers @helaili…

Repositories on GitHub are about to get a brand new look. The new design improves navigation and simplifies page layout, all while improving the code and performance under the hood.…

From the makers of the 5″ Octocat figurine comes the adorably small 3″ Octocat figurine. Find yours in the GitHub Shop.

Looking through our exception tracker the other day, I ran across a notice from our slow-query logger that caught my eye. I saw a SELECT … WHERE … LIKE query…

Société Générale and GitHub are hosting a meetup on November 12th in Société Générale’s headquarters at Paris, La Défense. If you are in Paris, we’d love for you to join…

Careful use of concurrency is particularly important when writing responsive desktop applications. Typically, complex operations are executed on background threads. This results in an app that remains responsive to user…

Our friends from Epic Games are hosting an all-day Unreal Engine 4 workshop for mobile developers at GitHub HQ on Thursday November 5th. Attendees will learn about authoring 2D and…