Meet Judy Gichoya, Doctor and Developer
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Judy Gichoya is a medical doctor specializing in radiology, but she’s also an…
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The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
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Two years of bounties
Despite the best efforts of its writers, software has vulnerabilities, and GitHub is no exception. Finding, fixing, and learning from past bugs is a critical part of keeping our users…
Learn moreCompany news January 28th Incident Report
Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…
Learn moreThe library Patchwork NYC
We hope you’ll join us on February 10 at WorkMarket for a casual night of hands-on hacking and learning about Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages. We’ll be unveiling our new…
Learn moreApplication development Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Learn moreProduct GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0
GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it’s now…
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Working with submodules
Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…
Learn moreThe library Save the Dates: GitHub Events in 2016
Mark your calendars. GitHub has a fresh lineup of events for 2016 – including two new European conferences, GitHub Satellite and CodeConf Copenhagen. Git Merge: April 5, New York City…
Learn moreThe library Update on 1/28 service outage
On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 00:23am UTC, we experienced a severe service outage that impacted GitHub.com. We know that any disruption in our service can impact your development workflow,…
Learn moreThe library Improved commenting with Markdown
You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you’ve always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…
Learn moreThe library Patchwork Brussels
Are you going to be in town for FOSDEM? We’d love if you joined us at our next Patchwork hack night. It will be on January 29, 2016 and will…
Learn moreThe library Patchwork London
We hope you’ll join us for our next Patchwork hack night on January 25, at the London School of Economics in London. GitHubbers @johndbritton, @tracicakes, and @amosie, as well as…
Learn moreThe library GitHub and Ladies that UX in Amsterdam
We’re proud to kick off the new year by co-hosting Ladies that UX Amsterdam‘s January meetup! Join the Ladies that UX Amsterdam founders Jenny Shen and Nadia Udalova and members,…
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New Year, new Git release
If your New Year’s resolution was to update to a new version of Git, we’ve got good news. The Git community has just released Git 2.7.0, and we’d like to…
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How the Services team uses GitHub
If you’re writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team’s primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…
Learn moreThe library Learn Ruby programming with GitHub and Udacity
We love the Ruby programming language for its natural, human-focused design philosophy and think you will too. That’s why we teamed up with Udacity to bring you three new Ruby…
Learn moreEngineering principles Move Fast and Fix Things
Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…
Learn moreThe library Doubling Down on ConnectHome
Today GitHub is proud to host the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, at our SF office. We are thrilled to welcome him, his senior staff, community organizations,…
Learn moreThe library Get involved in Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week
Every year during Computer Science Education Week, we have the opportunity to give back for an hour to teach students how to code. We’re following the example of Code.org, whose…
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Apple open-sources Swift on GitHub
Swift, Apple’s powerful new programming language, is now open source on GitHub. Developers can submit bug fixes and enhancements, and help bring the language to new platforms. Open Source has…
Learn moreInfrastructure GitHub’s Metal Cloud
At GitHub we place an emphasis on stability, availability, and performance. A large component of ensuring we excel in these areas is deploying services on bare-metal hardware. This allows us…
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