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Code Search API
Humans have enjoyed our ✨ new code search for a while, and today we’re ready to share that joy with the machines. 🔍 With the new code search API, we’ve…July 19, 2013
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OAuth Improvements
We have a couple of great new features and improvements to the OAuth flow to announce! First off, application developers can now add full text descriptions and custom images to…July 12, 2013
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Passion Projects Viewing Party at Gild
Every month we open our doors to the tech community and invite somewhere around 50 people to attend a Passion Projects talk here at GitHub HQ. We’ve grown to love…July 10, 2013
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SF Drinkup
Join us this Thursday, July 11th, for a drinkup at Novela SF. 🍻 ✨ The Facts: Where? Novela SF – 662 Mission Street When? Thursday, July 11th from 8:30pm to…July 10, 2013
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Explore Everyone’s Stars
You’ve been able to sort, search, and filter your stars for a few months now, and today you can easily browse everyone else’s stars, too. Most of the view is…July 9, 2013
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Minneapolis, MN Drinkup
@jonmagic and @kdaigle are in Minneapolis this week to welcome @jaw6 to our team so we want to buy you a drink! 🍻 🍸 🍷 We’ll be at Kieran’s Irish…July 8, 2013
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Improved SVN Here to Stay, Old SVN Going Away
About a year and a half ago we announced Improved Subversion Client Support – an improvement to the original service that provided better write access, partial checkouts, and access to…July 8, 2013
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Raleigh, NC Drinkup
Join @nuclearsandwich, @imbriaco, @shayfrendt, and me this coming Thursday at Tyler’s Taproom in Raleigh. Speak easy and join us in the back room for 🍻 on GitHub. The Facts: Tyler’s…July 5, 2013
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Passion Projects with Jessica Hische
Join us Thursday, July 11th, for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series with typography phenom and friend of the web Jessica Hische. Jessica is known for her…July 5, 2013
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Recap of Passion Projects Talk #4 with Sara Chipps
Last month Sara Chipps joined us at GitHub HQ for the 4th installment of our talk series Passion Projects. She gave an incredible talk about past projects, the developer community…July 3, 2013
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New History Tab in GitHub for Mac
Today, we’re happy to announce an all-new look for the History tab in GitHub for Mac: This new design has a far more efficient way of viewing your repository’s history…July 3, 2013
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Release Your Software
Today, we’re excited to announce Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users. Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond…July 2, 2013
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Data Challenge II Results
In April we announced the second annual GitHub data challenge. Since last year, GitHub’s public timeline data on Google BigQuery has grown by over 80 million events, including 3.8 million…June 26, 2013
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GeoJSON rendering improvements
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…June 26, 2013
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Task Lists in Gist
Task Lists are a great way to organize and break down Issues and Pull Requests into small, feasible tasks. Naturally, we want to use Task Lists to track our personal…June 25, 2013
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