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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Welcome to the third edition of The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Community Update…

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…

One of the long running issues with Git is that the library produced to run the binary is not re-entrant – you can’t link to it from another program because…