Gaug.es for Android
Update: We’ve discontinued this app. We're proud to announce that Gaug.es for Android is now available in the Android Market! The app provides a quick overview of your traffic, top…
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Highlighting Repository Languages
Today we pushed a redesigned feature that highlights language statistics on repository home pages, allowing you to quickly see what languages a repository contains. It's a great way to get…
The Code Tab
¡OH MY SCIENCE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED! Welcome to the Code tab. GitHub launched over three years ago, but to this day we've never touched our main repository navigation structure. This…
Keeping Googlebot Happy Revisited
I stumbled upon an older blog post I wrote a couple of years back discussing the advantages of keeping your site fast, specifically so Google can crawl it efficiently to…
Issues 2.0: The Next Generation
Issue management: the final frontier. Almost two years ago to the day, GitHub launched an issue tracker. Some people love it, some people hate it — but let's not focus…
Hello Singapore (CDN Experiment)
Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for serving static assets. We've also rolled out some general asset delivery optimizations. Depending on how far…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 3: SSL Proxied Assets
This is the third, and hopefully final, response to session hijacking on github.com. We've been safe from session hijacking for a while now but we were still serving pages with…
New uploader & downloads screen
Update: Uploads have been deprecated Not too long ago we rolled out the one true downloads button, but unfortunately the Downloads page was still left unattended. Well, today we’re rolling…
Sidejack Prevention Phase 2: SSL Everywhere
Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…
Twitter Service Hooks Return
A few weeks back twitter removed basic auth support and as a result many of you haven't been receiving twitter notifications for changes to your repositories. We've taken the the…
Git Notes Display
Update (August 14, 2014): Displaying Git notes on GitHub is no longer supported. I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the Pro Git blog. If you're interested…
Branch Lists
Git's branching model is one of it's best features. Branches are cheap, fast and extremely flexible. They're great for developing features, maintaining old releases, or just plain experimentation. If you…
Improved Commit Diffs
We recently rolled out a bunch of improvements to commit pages to make reviewing diffs a bit more pleasant. Diffstats Diffstat style histograms of insertions and deletions for each file…
New Repository Headers!
We just pushed out an updated header design for all repository pages, you can see it in action on any of our project pages The new headers fixed some long…
Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails
We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…
Unicorn!
We've been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…
State of the Hub: Rackspace day 2
Monday has come and gone, no one is happier about this than I am. As day 2 is wrapping up, I'd like to post an update for those of you…
Keeping GoogleBot Happy
One of the interesting side effects I hadn't considered when we rolled out some fairly significant caching updates on GitHub in the beginning of January was how much Google's crawler…
QuirkeyCode
img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-ki5psk2u56umjyyrjexs7ejrid.png http://code.quirkey.com The most rewarding part of running GitHub is seeing all the great code and ideas that people are showing off via the site. Earlier tonight I saw…
Hyde – The Python Static Site Generator
img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-q26tmesnecrjwi2bjmecm1qyi5.png Hyde is @lakshmivyas' evil Python transformation of my own Ruby Jekyll project, according to the backstory: About a week back I wanted to open source a few jQuery…
Only the beginning
2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…