The latest blogs from GitHub

Fall is here! Leaves are changing color, from their summer green to autumn’s green. Take a break from zombifying your djangopony costume. Gluing red horns on your cat for their…

Nothing brings central Ohioans together in the fall like a Buckeyes game. Well, other than a friendly GitHub Drinkup that is. I’ve had a lot of conversations over the past…

Today’s release of GitHub for Mac adds the ability to autocomplete GitHub usernames right within the commit summary and description fields. This works just like comment fields on GitHub.com. By…

Hey Boulder! One of our founders, @mojombo, will be in the Boulder area next week and would like to buy you, yes YOU, a beer. There will be several other…

The past six months have seen tremendous growth in GitHub’s training organization. We’ve added people, we’ve added materials, and we’ve been to more places on the planet to help make…

Hey Norfolk! You’re Virginia’s second-largest city, so join some East Coast GitHubbers for a pint or two at The Public House to talk all things GitHub and coding. Drinks are…

I’m in Cambridge, MA giving tech talks at universities in the area, get in touch if you’d like me to visit your school. While I’m in town, I’m hosting my…

GitHub is a goldmine of resources for game developers. I’d like to introduce you to five open source projects that’ll help you build your first, or next, amazing game. Check…

PuppetConf is in town and we’ve got @jnewland, @rodjek, and myself in attendance. There are some great talks this year, and you can even stream many of them for free…

Crafting experiences is central to what we do here at GitHub, and our interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding experiences are no exception. Having recently been through this process first-hand, I’d like…

We’ve shipped 25 updates to GitHub for Windows in the 4 months since we first launched. That’s more than one release per week, for 17 weeks straight! Here’s how we…

We first introduced OAuth2 tokens in the GitHub API starting in v3. Unlike usernames and passwords, OAuth tokens provide additional benefits: Revocable access. Tokens can be revoked at any time…

Today we’re shipping new user profile pages. We wanted the new profile pages to feel more personal and less like another dashboard. We’re using larger, Retina-friendly avatars on the new…

We are in Helsinki for Frozen Rails this week and since we enjoy this city so much we wanted to have another drinkup before the year ended. So come join…

Are you in town for the Ruby Hoedown? A Nashville techie wanting to meet up with local colleagues? Or feeling the need to geek out and talk shop with friends,…

With the new addition of the Command Bar, it’s possible to get to so many great parts of GitHub from a single search box. We found it so powerful, that…

At GitHub, we use the command line every day. From git commands to script/server, we love the power it offers. This got us thinking, “why can’t we do that with…

Oftentimes open source projects place a CONTRIBUTING file in the root directory. It explains how a participant should do things like format code, test fixes, and submit patches. Here is…

GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…

What OpenBlend is happening, and when @ben speaks at conferences, he likes to spread joy and cheer. Let GitHub buy you some 🍺, 🍸, 🍹, or 🍷, and geek out…

What Join the midwest contingent of GitHub for a pint or two in the hometown of @jonmagic, @jnunemaker, and @orderedlist. Come wax philosophic on the importance of software development, version…