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Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I’m…

Last week on Wednesday, January 8th, GitHub experienced an outage of our DNS infrastructure. As a result of this outage, our customers experienced 42 minutes of downtime of services along…

If you’ve been keeping an eye on your cookies, you may have noticed some recent changes GitHub has made to how we track your session. You shouldn’t notice any difference…

We’ve been working hard over the last few months, and are happy to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. It includes some exciting new Enterprise-specific features, as well as…

Today we’re adding two-factor authentication to GitHub. When you enable this feature, it adds an additional layer of security to your account. When logging in to GitHub, after providing your…

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…

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…

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…

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…