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Getting Real

A post I wrote about applying 37signals' Getting Real to GitHub is up on their product blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch,…

Chris Wanstrath
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Upcoming Speaking Gigs

In the next month I will be keynoting the Ruby Hoedown (August 8-9) and speaking at erubycon(August 15-17). If you're at either of these events stop by and say hi.…

Chris Wanstrath
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New Git Site

Everyone's favorite Git magician, Scott Chacon, recently released an awesome new resource for everything Git: http://git-scm.com/ In addition to Scott's Gitcasts, our new Guides homepage, and other existing Git resources,…

Chris Wanstrath
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Revamping the Guides

In an effort to make everyone's Git and GitHub experience a little easier, we're currently working on overhauling our guides. The first step was to replace the existing guides homepage…

PJ Hyett
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Embedded Gists

Okay, this is obvious: you can now embed gists directly into your website, blog, project overview, myspace page, whatever. Your browser does not support IFrames I've personally wanted this for…

Chris Wanstrath
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Improved SSH Key Organization

The original ssh public key interface left a lot to be desired. It's was bulky, unintuitive, and altogether a pain to manage if you had lots of public keys. With…

PJ Hyett
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New to Git?

Know someone new to Git? Here are some awesome resources to start with: Git for the lazy - A great guide for beginners Git for designers - No knowledge of…

Chris Wanstrath
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Here’s the Gist of it

Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We'd love versioning. We'd love SSL on our private pastes.…

Chris Wanstrath
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Scaling Lesson #23742

GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not…

PJ Hyett
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Formatted Files

Files in your repository are now formatted same as the README. This means if you have a file with a @.markdown@ extension, for example, it'll show up all pretty-like. Enjoy.…

Chris Wanstrath