Godot GDC Meetup 2019
Join us at GitHub HQ for our annual GDC Party on Tuesday, March 19, from 7pm to midnight.
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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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GitHub GDC Party 2019
Join us at GitHub HQ for our annual GDC Party on Tuesday, March 19, from 7pm to midnight.
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Vulcanizer: a library for operating Elasticsearch
Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.
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Student Developer Pack: a student’s runway to American Airlines
Spencer Kaiser, Principal Architect of Emerging Technology at American Airlines, shares his experience with the Student Developer Pack.
Learn moreThe library Join GitHub for the Tampa Bay Craftwork on March 25
Join us at Craftwork to learn how to use both the GitHub API to build better developer workflows.
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Release Radar · February 2019
We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the February 2019 edition of Release Radar.
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Get even more detail in pull requests
The latest release includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and a few new features to make your experience using GitHub for Visual Studio even smoother.
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Maintainer spotlight: Courtney Wilburn
In the month of February, we’re featuring Black maintainers that push open source software forward. Read on to find out about Courtney Wilburn, the maintainer of three open source projects: the Green Book App, Dank Memes, and EvictionAnd.
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Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program
Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.
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Join us for Patchwork Austin
Patchwork is headed to Austin! This event is open to newcomers to GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn.
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Maintainer spotlight: William Shepherd
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source. William is the maintainer of GitHub…
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Introducing draft pull requests
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
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The EU Copyright Directive: what happens from here
The EU Copyright Directive has come down to a final vote. Read on for more on what’s at stake and how the developer community shaped the debate.
Learn moreThe library Join GitHub for Craftwork San Francisco on February 20
Join us at Craftwork to learn how to use both the GitHub API to build better developer workflows.
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Mission report: Git Merge 2019
This year, Git Merge went to Brussels to host two days of all things Git. The event brought together hundreds of business leaders, source control teams, and developers—people who have a vested interest in Git and companies that hire Git contributors.
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How GitHub Classroom and Travis CI improved students’ grades
Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI.
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Maintainer spotlight: Rachel Green and Mark Nyon
Mark and Rachel are both maintainers on the End Bias Wiki (EBWiki) project. Read more about their mission to tell the stories of people of color who have died as a result of police action.
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User owned projects—your personal workspace
We know everyone has their own tooling and workflow preferences, which is why we’re excited to unveil our latest release: user owned project boards. Setting up a personal space for managing your work, ideas or, dare we say, bugs, should be possible…so we created user owned project boards to better support your individual needs.
Learn moreThe library An open source parser for GitHub Actions
Update: This blog post is no longer relevant with the update to GitHub Actions in August 2019. See the GitHub Actions documentation for more information. Since the beta release of…
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Release Radar · January 2019
Welcome to the January 2019 edition of Release Radar, where we share new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they’re all projects shipped by you.
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