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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…

Last Friday we announced and performed a migration of all GitHub Pages to their own github.io domain. This was a long-planned migration, with the specific goal of mitigating phishing attacks…

Join us on April 4th for our second Passion Projects talk with Firefox Dev Heather Arthur. Heather is an engineer at Mozilla in San Francisco, where she works on Firefox…

Earlier today a routine system email was incorrectly sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making…

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…

Today we’re proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called “The Setup” — a…

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…

Back in April, we launched some amazing new graphs. One of the new visualizations we’ve found especially useful is the contributors page. We’re constantly looking at it to get a…

Join Jerry, Danish, and the attendees from Rails Israel for a few drinks at Levontin 7. The party starts at 10pm! The Facts Where: Levontin 7, לבונטין 7, Tel Aviv,…

We are in Helsinki for Frozen Rails this week and since we enjoy this city so much we wanted to have another drinkup before the year ended. So come join…

Oftentimes open source projects place a CONTRIBUTING file in the root directory. It explains how a participant should do things like format code, test fixes, and submit patches. Here is…

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…

Over the past few days, we have had some issues with our SSH infrastructure affecting a small number of Git SSH operations. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are happy…

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…

This article hasn’t been updated in a while. For the most current information, please refer to the docs and the Desktop website. Today, I thought it would be fun to…

Translations: Ukrainian. We’ve revamped our existing graphs and added three new graphs to help you discover even more about GitHub hosted repositories. Contributors See who’s contributing to a project and…

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…

At 8:49am Pacific Time this morning a GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his public key to the rails organization.…

What’s better than having a meetup in Helsinki earlier this month? Throwing another Helsinki meetup this week! A whole gaggle of GitHubbers are in town for Frozen Rails, and we’ll…

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…

We just rolled out a slightly redesigned Pull Request discussion view. You can check it out on any pull request like this one on rack/rack. This refresh opens up the…