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Ever wish you could summon a particular someone to take a look at an issue or pull request? Now you can: When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere in the…
Ever wish you could summon a particular someone to take a look at an issue or pull request? Now you can: When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere in the…
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…
Have a LinkedIn account? Add the GitHub Application for social coding goodness. The cool thing about this app is you can use it to find projects other people in your…
You should notice a small change to the From address on your email notifications now: they’re no longer from no-reply@github.com. We’re now accepting replies from most email notifications that you’ll…
Earlier today, we received an alert from our monitoring system that a disk in our active MySQL server’s RAID10 array had started to clock up some media errors. Being a…
Over the weekend we rolled out a few changes to email notifications to better take advantage of your mail reader’s ability to group messages into conversations and threads: Here’s what’s…
Black Friday. Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Octocat Wednesday? Probably not because I just made that up. Lucky for you we’re also making up the prices around here…
We noticed some buzz on twitter today about JSLint moving to GitHub. JSLint is a code quality tool for the Javascript language, there’s a more detailed explanation available here. The…
A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user’s HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…
While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You’ve used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we’re taking it to…
In a little over twelve hours from now we’ll be flipping the switch on GitHub Jobs. That means you only have until midnight PDT to post a job at our…
We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) at 18:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while this takes place, but all data…
Update [January 1, 2017]: Our pricing plans have changed. For information on our latest plans, check out our pricing page. When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the…
Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…
Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.
Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…
Following three months of near 100% uptime, we’ve just been through three major outages in as many days. I wanted to take some time to detail the problems and what…
Update 1/19/2010: Page build notifications have been added to the list of notifications you can turn on/off and have moved to the Notifications section as well. Thanks! Today we rolled…
Dont worry fellow San Franciscans! There’s still a drinkup slated for the home front. We’ll be in SOMA at John Colins this Thursday December 3rd at 8:00pm. That’s right, three…
Update: We’ve launched GitHub Jobs, go check it out! Today we’re rolling out Phase 1 to our GitHub Jobs search engine. Under your Account Settings page, there’s a new tab…
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