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Five years ago today, @defunkt, @pjhyett, and I gathered in our online chat room and prepared to push a commit to GitHub that would finally mark the public launch of…

RubyConf Uruguay takes place this weekend, and with all the amazing developers, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after-party! Join @bhuga, @danishkhan, @foca, @jakeboxer, @johndbritton, @newmerator, @nrrrdcore, @pakwit,…

We’re always looking for opportunities to better support women in technology. We sponsor women-focused meetups and events all over the world. This year, we’d like to try something a little…

GRDevDay is taking place this Saturday, and with so many amazing developers together, we couldn’t resist the urge to throw an after party. Join @bkeepers and the rest of the…

GitHub Pages, the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects, just got an upgrade. We are now using Jekyll 0.12.0, which contains several new features…

Today, we’re launching a refreshed homepage that reflects the core idea of GitHub: It’s better to work together than to work alone. Thank you to our awesome community for making…

On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…

For the last stop of the YOW! circuit we’ll have four hubbers in Sydney this week. @barrbrain, @holman, @rodjek, and myself are organizing a drinkup. You should drop by. When…

We are delighted to announce our first public workshop in Denver, Colorado. Matthew and I on the training team spend most of our time traveling away from Denver to teach…

Last year we invited 17 teams to compete on the dodgeball court, all in the name of charity. It was awesome! While Heroku’s team did defeat all the competition, the…

GitHub is a goldmine of resources for game developers. I’d like to introduce you to five open source projects that’ll help you build your first, or next, amazing game. Check…

Today, we shipped an API for third party services to attach statuses to commits. We created this API to allow services to color the discussion on pull requests. For example,…

Welcome to the second edition of Game Bytes, where we highlight some of the latest and greatest game development-related repositories, success stories, and other game-related tidbits. If I had a…

The GitHub Training Team recently caught up with Jake Wharton, legendary Android developer, OSS contributor, and codemonkey at Square. He’s a friend of GitHubber Kevin Sawicki, who has used Jake’s…

We hosted our first OctoGala here in San Francisco at Brick and Mortar. Not only did we have a night of glitz and glamor, but we were able to raise…

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…

Having a dedicated training team at GitHub has provided exciting opportunities for us to take events and workshops to new locales. We’ll be running a Git and GitHub training event…

For the last few months a few of us here at GitHub have been working on a new homepage for the Git project. I designed the original site years ago…

Ljubljana, Slovenia Drinkup We are having a great Git class in Ljubljana and want to celebrate with the Slovenian developer community with a double GitHub drinkup tonight to make it…

There has been some confusion over today’s security vulnerability and our policy on responsible disclosure and account suspension that I’d like to clear up. Three days ago, user @homakov opened…