Creating a new contributor on-ramp
One of the most important elements of creating a strong community is shaping the new contributor experience. The on-boarding experience for new participants plays a huge role in how quickly…
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Patchwork Portland
Portland friends, we hope you'll join us for a Patchwork hack night on March 29, that will be co-hosted with our friends at TaborSpace. If you're a beginner to Git…
Patchwork El Paso
We're excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on March 18, that will be co-hosted with our friends at University of Texas, El Paso. If you're a high school or…
Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
A month ago, we announced that GitHub Pages had upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will no longer support Textile. If you are currently using Textile…
Speakers Announced for Git Merge 2016
We are excited to announce our confirmed speakers for Git Merge 2016! On April 5th, 2016 at New York City's New World Stages (350 West 50th Street, New York City)…
Patchwork NYC
We hope you'll join us on February 10 at WorkMarket for a casual night of hands-on hacking and learning about Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages. We'll be unveiling our new…
Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents
Many blogging websites, like Jekyll with GitHub Pages, depend on some YAML-formatted metadata at the beginning of your post. You know, the stuff that goes between dashes like this: ---…
GeoJSON rendering improvements
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we're excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…
Repository redirects are here!
It's a fact of life - sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…
Jekyll Turns 1.0
GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We're now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…
The Revolution Will Be Forked
Millions of people around the world use GitHub every day to build software together, but the GitHub Way™ isn't limited to code. We are humbled to see that the White…
Yummy cookies across domains
Last Friday we announced and performed a migration of all GitHub Pages to their own github.io domain. This was a long-planned migration, with the specific goal of mitigating phishing attacks…
Game Bytes #4 – Jammin’
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,…
Recent Load Balancer Problems
Over the past few weeks, we've had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause - instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here's a…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PST
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…
Jekyll puts on SmartyPants
I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks,…
TypePad Developer Platform
Today blogging company Six Apart released their TypePad Developer Platform. It's been covered on TechCrunch and on the TypePad blog, but the reason I'm writing is they've put GitHub front…
Rackspace Move Scheduled for Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific Time
On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…
Pro Git Book
For about the last 8 months, I've been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…
Documentation Explosion
RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it'll take…
Lemur Scheme
For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…