New Users, Repos, and Orgs API
Today we are rolling out some more API v3 functionality! Say hello to managing Users, Followers, Public Keys, Repositories, Forks, Collaborators, Watching, Organizations, Members and Teams via a clean, RESTful…
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GitHub Reflog v1.3.28
Welcome to the second edition of The GitHub Reflog. This is a new weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos. For previous articles, check out The Reflog Archive. Featured Repo of…
Big Service Hook Update
I merged eight pull requests yesterday on our community-supported Service Hooks: Yammer by rboyd Notifo updates by stammy grmble by andyburke Co-Op by Throlkim Full IRC authentication support by sampierson…
Sidejack Prevention
A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user's HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…
GitHub Rebase #42
Welcome back to GitHub Rebase! It’s a .NET week here on the Rebase. If you’ve got a suggestion for themes or projects let me know! Featured Project masstransit is an…
How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we've made in order to bring…
State of the Hub: Rackspace day 0
Hi folks, if you're reading this, you're on the new servers! I wanted to put up a quick update so that everyone knows what to expect going into our first…
Gist Support for TextMate
gtcaz has begun improving the Gist support in drnic's GitHub TextMate Bundle  The Gist support was originally written by mattmatt. It uses gist.rb and supports authentication out of the…
GitHub Rebase #2
It looks like I've been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that's coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…
Local GitHub Config
With awesome tools like GitNub and GitX adding GitHub integration, it would be great if you didn't have to keep re-entering you username and API token. So let's settle on…
SSH Keys Generated on Debian/Ubuntu Compromised
A security warning posted on the Debian security list today warns that SSH keys generated on Debian based systems (including Ubuntu) have a highly predictable random number generator. This corroborates…
Token Private Feeds
Apparently some of the more popular feed readers can't handle HTTP authentication, SSL feeds, or a combination of the two. No matter! GitHub private feeds are now accessible via a…
Activity Feeds Are Go
Activity feeds are now active. Three, in particular: events for you, events from you, and public events from you. The private feeds are protected with HTTP authentication. You need to…