The latest blogs from GitHub

Fabian “ryg” Giesen (@rygorous), one of the coders of the legendary demoscene group farbrausch, has open-sourced on GitHub a repository with some of the group’s work from 2001 to 2011.…

We’ve just released GitHub for Mac 1.2.5 and it comes with a new update panel that helps you see what we’re shipping with each release. It also contains a handy…

GitHub turns four this month!! To celebrate, we’re going back to where it all started. That’s right, we’re going to Zeke’s Diamond Bar, the place where GitHub became more than…

Notch is at it again, and we couldn’t be more excited. You may have heard of Minecraft, the award-winning game Notch released a few years ago that has recently marked…

The beers in Portland are second only to the amazing summers. Since it’s not quite summer yet, and since a summerup would just sound weird, we’ve decided to host a…

Spring is in the air. At GitHub we’re busting out the mops and hosing down the site. Today we’re removing two features. They’ve been gathering dust for a while and…

Next Thursday, April 12th, GitHub will be sponsoring a drinkup in my hometown of Ventura, CA at the Anacapa Brewing Company at 8pm. Come join us for some free beer…

Ever pushed a new project to GitHub and wished you had the time or talent to make a beautiful page for it? Stop wishing. We’re proud to present the new…

API v3 has been in place for nearly a year. We’ve seen a large increase in the amount of API consumers and have ambitious future plans for it. However, at…

Nodeload 2 has been rocking since August, so I thought I’d give a quick report of its performance. Nodeload is the system responsible for dynamically building and delivering your Git…

Ben Bleikamp and myself will be in Columbia, SC for POSSCON and hosting a Drinkup while in town. This Wednesday night, we’ll be buying drinks at the Liberty Tap Room.…

Ljubljana, Slovenia Drinkup We are having a great Git class in Ljubljana and want to celebrate with the Slovenian developer community with a double GitHub drinkup tonight to make it…

The PHP Core source code has migrated to git and is available on GitHub. Last fall the PHP core team voted to pick a distributed version control system and git…

We just rolled out some cool changes to how you manage OAuth applications. First up is a newly-polished Applications settings section for both developers (application owners) and users (application users).…

@xpaulbettsx is in Calgary this week for PrairieDevCon, so we’re throwing a drinkup this week on Wednesday (March 14th) at 8PM. Not going to the convention? Who cares! Come out…

If you’re curious about what the octocreation process looks like, today is your lucky day. Check out this ten minute video of the creation of the Codercat.

That’s right, GitHub’s very own @atmos, @tanoku, and myself will be hosting a drinkup in Rome, Italy for Codemotion. The Facts The drinkup will be held at Freni E Frizioni…

With spring in the air and GDC in town, we decided to double-ship this month’s drinkup. This Thursday night, we’ll be buying drinks at two neighboring bars, Eddie Rickenbacker’s and…

There has been some confusion over today’s security vulnerability and our policy on responsible disclosure and account suspension that I’d like to clear up. Three days ago, user @homakov opened…

At 8:49am Pacific Time this morning a GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his public key to the rails organization.…

Today we are announcing GitHub for Mac 1.2, an update we have dubbed Snow Octocat. Just like its bigger-cat cousin Snow Leopard, the goal for this release was to increase…