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Passion Projects with Melissa Severini
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…December 5, 2013
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Soft-wrapping on prose diffs
Starting today, diffs on prose documents are soft-wrapped. Before: After: Review without scrolling, comment with ease, and stop hard-wrapping your prose documents.December 3, 2013
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Descriptive error messages for failed GitHub Pages builds
It’s tough to be the bearer of bad news. Fortunately, today we’re making it a bit easier to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects. When you push…December 2, 2013
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Expanding context in diffs
Whether it’s reviewing community changes to an Open Source project, or using GitHub Flow on a private project, we all spend a lot of time looking at diffs. But to…December 2, 2013
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Dodgeball Tournament 2013: After the Action
If you joined us for our third annual dodgeball tournament last Sunday, we thank you and your team, and we hope you had as much fun as we did. It…November 21, 2013
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Join our Octostudy!
There are a lot of interesting people on GitHub today. Since we can’t meet everyone at a conference, drinkup, or charity dodgeball game, we are hoping you can tell us…November 20, 2013
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Weak passwords brute forced
Some GitHub user accounts with weak passwords were recently compromised due to a brute force password-guessing attack. I want to take this opportunity to talk about our response to this…November 20, 2013
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Orlando Drinkup
@brntbeer, @pmn, @brianburridge and I are all in Orlando this week for Visual Studio Live!. Come one, come all to Ember on Wednesday night and have a drink on us.…November 19, 2013
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Bellevue Drinkup
Fall has come to the Northwest and so have Microsoft MVP Summit attendees. But, you don’t need to be an MVP to come join @haacked, @shiftkey and @half-ogre to shoot…November 14, 2013
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An African hack trip
GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw drinkups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.…November 13, 2013
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Dodgeball Tournament After-party
By now you’ve heard that the third annual OctoCat Dodgeball Invitational is scheduled to commence this Sunday, November 17, at the Gene Friend Recreation Center in SOMA. After the tournament,…November 13, 2013
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Subscribe to GitHub’s Explore Email
There’s a lot happening on GitHub. As we reach closer and closer to 10 million repositories, there’s an astounding amount of activity happening every day. Our trending page is a…November 11, 2013
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Join us for a drinkup in Toronto on November 14th
Hey Toronto!! A bunch of us are coming to town to hang out with local boy @raganwald and thought it would be nice to hang out with some of our…November 9, 2013
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Passion Projects with Ligaya Tichy
Join us on Thursday, November 14th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with Ligaya Tichy. Ligaya loves the early stages of startups. She launched new markets…November 7, 2013
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GitHub talks in Japan
John Britton and Matthew McCullough will be making a trek across Japan to host a series of talks and drinkups. We’d love to have you join us for one or…November 4, 2013
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