GitHub’s global policy predictions for 2018
With issues like net neutrality and digital news curation in headlines every day, we’re seeing the effects of the growing role that technology has in our lives more than ever.…
With issues like net neutrality and digital news curation in headlines every day, we’re seeing the effects of the growing role that technology has in our lives more than ever.…
Today is the second Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality this year, and there’s never been a more important time to show your support. GitHub is joining a number…
GitHub Enterprise 2.12 has arrived with new organization tools to help your team stay focused and do their best work. Get project board enhancements, global webhooks, repository archiving, and more…
Home to over 80 million specimens from across the globe, the Natural History Museum is on a constant mission to make its collections more accessible by taking them from physical…
Another Hacktoberfest has come and gone, and we couldn’t be more proud of your contributions. With over 200,000 merged pull requests in almost 65,000 repositories, you made this our biggest…
Working together on software is so much more than writing code. Processes like planning, analysis, design, user research, documentation, and general project decision-making all play a part in the build…
Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team’s quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…
The open source community proves that when creative people get together on an open platform, great things happen: Code gets better, new technologies emerge, and the way we build software…
If you’re looking for a real-world approach to computer science education in Germany, you can find it at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, which offers a practical and…
If you’re an open source maintainer, it’s time to get your repository ready for Hacktoberfest. Why? Communities grow during Hacktoberfest. Just ask Peter Tseng, now a core contributor of Exercism,…
This week, more than 1,000 developers from around the world joined us at Pier 70 in San Francisco for our flagship conference. We learned new skills in workshops, heard from…
At GitHub, we use MySQL as the main database technology backing our services. We run classic MySQL master-replica setups, where writes go to the master, and replicas replay master’s changes asynchronously. To be able to serve our traffic we read data from the MySQL replicas.
We’re kicking off Cyber Security month with a few projects to help up your security game with the tools and know-how to protect yourself from common vulnerabilities. These are the…
Celebrate open source this October by participating in the fourth annual Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software in partnership with DigitalOcean. Last year, contributors from 114 countries submitted…
Welcome to the first edition of the Release Radar, where we share the projects popping up on our radar—from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they’re all projects…
Last month, we released a new way to quickly review pull requests by listing the changed functions or methods in the pull request file finder. Now Python enthusiasts can quickly…
Review requests are a great way to ask for review on software, and with the addition of team requests you can get the feedback you need faster. To make it…
Bard College is not a technical research university. In fact, when students arrive on campus, most say they’ve had no experience with computer science. Professors Keith O’Hara and Sven Anderson…
We recently launched Topics, a new feature that lets you tag your repositories with descriptive words or phrases, making it easy to discover projects and explore GitHub.com. Topic suggestions on…
The biggest barrier to code review is often time, but there’s a new way to easily understand how changes impact your code. Now you can navigate to changed methods and…
Open source is all about building communities around shared challenges. Thanks to some subtle (and not so subtle) improvements in the past few months, it’s now easier to make your…
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