The latest blogs from GitHub

This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation. I am deeply saddened by these developments and want to…

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…

On Tuesday, March 11th, GitHub was largely unreachable for roughly 2 hours as the result of an evolving distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. I know that you rely on…

We’re now 11 installments into our talk series Passion Projects, which we created to help surface and celebrate the work of incredible women in the tech industry. We sat down…

Today we’ve made your contribution graphs timezone-aware. GitHub is used everywhere and we want to reflect that in our features. If you happen to work from Japan, Australia or Ulan…

Join us on Thursday, March 13th, to welcome Selena Deckelmann to the stage for the March edition and one year anniversary of Passion Projects!  Selena Deckelmann is a major…

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,…

Whether you’re just getting started or have been building applications on the GitHub API for years, the GitHub Developer Program is all about making sure you have the right resources…

GitHub is coming to Atlanta, GA this week for the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) conference. Attendees can stop by our booth (#502) and join our conference…

Fresh from the streets of Tokyo, Japan, we’re excited to share our latest video in the OctoTales series. This episode features DeNA, creators of the mobile gaming platform, Mobage. DeNA…

We just added more granular permissions so third party applications can specifically request read-only access, read/write access, or full admin access to your public SSH keys. You’re in control As…

@samlambert and @dbussink are going to be in town for The PHP North East Conference and would like you to join them for 🍻 or other beverage of your choice…

Today we are making it easier to review and collaborate on prose documents. Commits and pull requests including prose files now feature source and rendered views. Click the “rendered” button…

Join us next Thursday, February 20th for the 11th edition of Passion Projects with Laura Gluhanich.  Laura has designed, built and shipped community, support and content strategies at companies…

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…

We’re hosting our first ever free public speaking workshop for women in San Francisco! If you’re interested in leveling up your public speaking skills, join us on Saturday, February 22nd…

Dana McCallum joined us in January of 2013 for the 10th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Dana’s talk revealed how she brought her non-tech passions to life through…

Webhooks are by far our most widely adopted integration, but they’ve always been buried in a big list of external services. Today, we’re making some major improvements in the way…

When I discover a new project on GitHub, perhaps on Explore, I often wonder if any of my friends already know about it. People you know lets you see how…

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of education.github.com, a site dedicated to using GitHub at school. Students, teachers, and schools all over the world use GitHub to teach and…

Next week there’s not one, not two, but 7 GitHubbers in Melbourne! Come and join @alanjrogers, @haileys, @dgoodlad, @michaeltwofish, @rodjek, @shiftkey and myself for a yarn and some 🍻 or…