Introducing Passion Projects
We're always looking for opportunities to better support women in technology. We sponsor women-focused meetups and events all over the world. This year, we'd like to try something a little…
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Introducing Boxen
Today we’re proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called “The Setup” — a…
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…
Retiring Impact Graphs
Back in April, we launched some amazing new graphs. One of the new visualizations we've found especially useful is the contributors page. We're constantly looking at it to get a…
Tel Aviv Drinkup Tomorrow!
Join Jerry, Danish, and the attendees from Rails Israel for a few drinks at Levontin 7. The party starts at 10pm! The Facts Where: Levontin 7, לבונטין 7, Tel Aviv,…
Helsinki Drinkup
We are in Helsinki for Frozen Rails this week and since we enjoy this city so much we wanted to have another drinkup before the year ended. So come join…
Contributing Guidelines
Oftentimes open source projects place a CONTRIBUTING file in the root directory. It explains how a participant should do things like format code, test fixes, and submit patches. Here is…
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…
Surviving the SSHpocolypse
Over the past few days, we have had some issues with our SSH infrastructure affecting a small number of Git SSH operations. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are happy…
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…
Designing 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. Today, I thought it would be fun to…
Introducing the New GitHub Graphs
Translations: Ukrainian. We've revamped our existing graphs and added three new graphs to help you discover even more about GitHub hosted repositories. Contributors See who's contributing to a project and…
Responsible Disclosure Policy
There has been some confusion over today's security vulnerability and our policy on responsible disclosure and account suspension that I'd like to clear up. Three days ago, user @homakov opened…
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation
At 8:49am Pacific Time this morning a GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his public key to the rails organization.…
Helsinki GitHub Meetup
What's better than having a meetup in Helsinki earlier this month? Throwing another Helsinki meetup this week! A whole gaggle of GitHubbers are in town for Frozen Rails, and we'll…
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…
Refreshed Pull Request Discussions
We just rolled out a slightly redesigned Pull Request discussion view. You can check it out on any pull request like this one on rack/rack. This refresh opens up the…
Recent Services Interruptions
Here's a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we're doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first "real" workday for…
GitHub Jobs
You all know about GitHub Jobs by now, so we thought we'd kick off the official launch by highlighting some cool jobs we've found in the past seven days. Some…
One Million Repositories
Last night, the one millionth git repository was created on GitHub. That is a heck of a lot of repositories. Since we first launched, there have been a lot of…
Annotated Downloads
I just pushed a feature that optionally uses annotated tags to describe your project's downloads. Check out how Rails describes their v2.3.5 release: Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 * Improved Ruby…