Reading and understanding code is an absolutely critical task for software developers. Research suggests developers spend far more time reading code than writing it. Reviewing a pull request, planning a…
A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index.
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.
GitHub’s code navigation features jump to definition and find all references are now available for all Rust projects on GitHub. When you view an Rust file on github.com, you can…
Understanding code is one of the most important parts of software development. Developers need to be able to quickly search, navigate, and understand their code to do their best work.…
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles.
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
We’ve made some improvements to audit log search to make it easier to discover events. Since audit log events are found through key:value pairs, we now show you a list…
Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.
We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.
GitHub’s code navigation features “jump to definition” and “find all references” are now available for all Elixir projects on GitHub. When you view an Elixir file on github.com, you can…
Previously, when running a job that requires a self-hosted runner, GitHub Actions would look for self-hosted runners in the repository, organization, and enterprise, in that order. We are changing that…
This blog post tells the story of why we built a new search engine optimized for code.
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
We’re excited to highlight another top contributing researcher to GitHub’s Bug Bounty Program: @yvvdwf
Previously, in the code browser, when you were searching for a branch by typing its name, a branch with the exact name of what you typed could appear at the…
GitHub’s bug bounty team is excited to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a spotlight on two security researchers who participate in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
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