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Gather your Ruby and Perl and get your ship ready to set sail into the Sea Es Es with the new Piratocat Shirt. Watch out for that Octokraken!!! Available in…

Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…

很高興和大家宣布，十月十四號（星期二）我們將在五倍紅寶石台北出礦坑舉辦 Patchwork 活動。 We’re happy to announce our next Patchwork night on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at the 5xRuby offices! 完全不需要程式經驗/No coding experience required! Patchwork 是一個由 GitHub 主辦，專門給初學者的 Git 與…

@mattgraham and @southgate will be in Recife for the Abril Pro Ruby conference on April 24th. We’ll be running a workshop earlier in the day, but if you can’t make…

We’ve added several commonly requested features, making GitHub Pages an even better place to host websites for you and your projects. Repository metadata First, Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages now…

To build and ship great software, you need to use the best tools available. From homegrown systems to third-party applications, integrating those tools with GitHub means better collaboration around projects,…

A bunch of GitHubbers will be in town for Ruby Conf Australia next week, and, as always, we look forward to meeting up with the Sydney tech community while we’re…

Rubyfuza is the South African 💎 conference, and we of the :octocat: inclination heard that some of you down here like 🍺 @rothsa and @bleything, will be there… along with…

Melissa Severini joined us in December of 2013 for the 9th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Her talk explored the dynamics of managing humans in a startup environment…

Join us on Thursday, December 12th, for our last Passion Projects talk of the year with Melissa Severini. Melissa was GitHub’s first employee and led business operations for its first…

Octokit is a family of client libraries for the GitHub API. Back in May, we released Octokit libraries for Ruby and Objective-C. Today we’re releasing the third member of the…

I’ll be in Beijing with @dannygreg for RubyConf China next week, so join us next Friday for some drinks and fun at CheKu Cafe! You don’t need to attend the…

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…

Come join @holman and the attendees of Nickel City Ruby for some spirits and fun at the The Century Grill. You need not be attending the conference to join us…

Back in April, we introduced the 3D file viewer. Today we’re improving this by displaying diffs of STL files on GitHub. There are two modes to figure out what you’re…

We’re happy to announce Octokit, our new lineup of GitHub-maintained client libraries for the GitHub API. Today, we’re making our first two libraries available. octokit/octokit.rb Octokit.rb (formerly pengwynn/octokit) has been…

At GitHub, we’re big fans of traditional computer science education, and we’re also happy to see some alternative models emerging for training new programmers. There are the Massively Open Online…

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…

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…