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@danishkhan and I are in Madrid for the UC3M t3chFest, and we’ll be sponsoring the conference after-party in Saloon Bar El Paso, right next to the conference venue. You do…

There are a more than a million open issues to be found across all public repositories hosted on GitHub right now. Finding a specific issue can be a tedious process…

URLs are extremely important and the ability to be as informative as possible with those URLs is equally important to us. Gists are now namespaced in much the same way…

We are finishing up a new GitHub Services backend, dubbed “Hookshot”, to increase the speed and reliability of our delivered payloads. We are doing what we can to make this…

This week we’re taking our OctoBooth down the road to AppsWorld – North America. You can join us on the Expo floor by getting your passes here. Then join us…

Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…

On an average weekday, more than 70,000 comments are added to discussions on GitHub. Today we’re introducing a small enhancement to the way you can reply to discussion threads to…

Cleveland 🤘! Let’s 🍻🍸:neckbeard:🎸:octocat: in one of Ohio’s greatest cities, Cleveland! Join @asenchi and me Wednesday at the Great Lakes Brewing Company Taproom, drinks on GitHub. The Facts: Great Lakes…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’re shipping this version with Issue Attachments, Contributions, and much more. Along with a variety of general improvements and adjustments,…

A game jam is typically a 48-hour hackathon for building games based on some theme. Participants—or “jammers”—usually work in teams of two to five people comprised of artists, sound engineers,…

Last week, we were proud to introduce our new Code Search and improved repository and user search. Today, when you perform a search that has more than one page of…

We show rendered markup in several places on GitHub, most notably including a project’s main README on the Repository page itself. Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files.…

Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

Now you can go back in time to view contribution activity from any period within the last year. Click on a day to see your contributions. Hold down shift and…

At GitHub, we love finding new ways to help people get in the zone. Today we’re excited to announce a feature that we hope will do just that. You’ll now…

Tweets with links to GitHub just got a whole lot prettier. By supporting Twitter Cards on GitHub, any tweets containing a link to a GitHub repository will provide more context…

Finding great code on GitHub just got a whole lot easier. Today we’re releasing several big improvements to code search. New Technology First, we are unveiling our new search infrastructure…

Recently we changed the way closing issues via commit message works on GitHub. Now when you enter “Fixes #33” in a commit message, issue 33 will only be closed once…

Please join us at Martins West in Redwood City, California this Wednesday night to mingle and enjoy a few drinks on us. Where: Martins West (back room) @ 831 Main…

A couple of GitHubbers will be in Tokyo this week, attending a GitHub Enterprise meetup hosted by GREE! Come by for a beer on us at August Beer Club in…

Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account. That’s three million developers building software…