GitHub Flow in the Browser
Now that you can delete files directly on GitHub we’ve reached a very exciting milestone—the entire GitHub Flow™ is now possible using nothing but a web browser. What is GitHub…
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Hey Judy, don’t make it bad
Last week we explained how we greatly reduced the rendering time of our web views by switching our escaping routines from Ruby to C. This speed-up was two-fold: the C…
Content Security Policy
We've started rolling out a new security feature called "Content Security Policy" or CSP. As a user, it will better protect your account against XSS attacks. But, be aware, it…
Escape Velocity
We work very hard to keep GitHub fast. Ruby is not the fastest programming language, so we go to great lengths benchmarking and optimizing our large codebase: our goal is…
Washington, D.C. Drinkup
Two GitHubbers are headed into our nation's capital for a civic hackathon this Friday, so that, of course, means we're throwing a drinkup! The Facts Loft at The Hamilton February…
Recent Code Search Outages
Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…
GitHub Enterprise 11.10.300 Release
We're excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We're shipping this version with Issue Attachments, Contributions, and much more. Along with a variety of general improvements and adjustments,…
The Octoverse in 2012
I am continually blown away by the staggering amount of work happening on GitHub. Every day, our users commit code, open and close issues, and make plans for their software…
Rebel: a Framework for Improving AppKit
In our last blog post, we revealed Mantle, our Cocoa model framework. Today, we're announcing Rebel, a framework for improving AppKit. Since you may recall our original TwUI announcement, the…
How we ship GitHub for Windows
We’ve shipped 25 updates to GitHub for Windows in the 4 months since we first launched. That’s more than one release per week, for 17 weeks straight! Here’s how we…
Game Bytes #1
Welcome to the first edition of Game Bytes, where we highlight some of the latest and greatest game development-related repositories, success stories, and other game-related tidbits. I talked with David…
The RefLog – July 2012
In this edition of The RefLog, we talk with Bryan Helmkamp. A Rubyist, GitHub User #19, and creator of Code Climate. Matthew McCullough sat down with him to talk about…
Investing in GitHub
Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. Why now? In four short years we've done a lot we're really proud of. We've shipped…
GitHub for Windows
This article hasn't been updated in a while. For the most current information, please refer to the docs and the Desktop website. Ever wish there was an easy way to…
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…
Say Hello to Hubot
For the past year or so we've been telling people about Hubot, our amazing Campfire bot. We have a lot of fun working on Hubot. He makes us laugh, he…
All of the Hooks
Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…
Drift: an iPad app for GitHub Gists
Greg Borenstein (he hooked up our stoplight to our ci build system last year, remember?) and Devin Chalmers just announced that Drift is available on the App Store. Drift is…
Shiny new commit styles
We just rolled out some redesigned commit blocks all over the site. They look a bit like this: There's all kinds of nice additions — notably, we'll show you the…
Magma Rails Winners
The first of our tickets for Magma Rails goes to Fernando. Signing up in our first year, Fernando has been a GitHub member longer than the others who entered and…
GitHub Jobs Update
Looking for an awesome job? You're in luck. We just launched a bunch of new enhancements to make finding the perfect job on GitHub Jobs even easier. The App First…