The latest blogs from GitHub

Not so fast, 2014! We’re well into the new year, but we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the amazing things we did as a community…

We’re excited to announce two improvements to mapping on GitHub today: diffs and feature-level customizations. Visualizing changes over time We added the ability to visualize geospatial data to GitHub last…

Rubyfuza is the South African 💎 conference, and we of the :octocat: inclination heard that some of you down here like 🍺 @rothsa and @bleything, will be there… along with…

Our users’ trust is something we never take for granted here at GitHub. In order to earn and keep that trust we are always working to improve the security of…

Today we’re announcing something new: GitHub Guides. We’ve got four guides up right now: Understanding the GitHub Workflow Getting your project on GitHub Mastering Issues Mastering Markdown Guides are designed…

Melissa Severini joined us in December of 2013 for the 9th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Her talk explored the dynamics of managing humans in a startup environment…

Today we’re excited to ship redesigned conversations on GitHub. Here’s an example: More meaningful conversations Scanning and working with all the content available in conversations—replies, CI status, commits, code review…

A while back, we started proxying all non-https images to avoid mixed-content warnings using a custom node server called camo. We’re making a small change today and proxying HTTPS images…

In November of 2013 we hosted our 3rd annual Dodgeball Tournament. With the help of the participating teams we raised money for 4 awesome non-profits. See the action from the…

Today we’re making it easier to manage GitHub organizations. Whether your organization is a large private company or a small open source project, these improvements will help keep your teams…

With help from the non-profit, open-source project Amara, we’ve added English closed captions to all of our videos on YouTube. This includes all videos on the main GitHub channel (such…

Ligaya Tichy joined us in November of 2013 for the 8th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Ligaya’s talk inspired us all to give more charitably and left us…

Pull Requests are key to our collaboration workflow here at GitHub, so today we’re making it a little easier to stay in the flow of a PR while collaborating directly…

It’s a brand new year, and each year calls for reflection on where we’ve been, where we’re going, and how each of us here at GitHub can best focus our…

kasima, southgate, muan and dice are in Tokyo 🗼 and would like to invite our friends to an evening of food (most probably pizza 🍕) and drinks 🍺 with perhaps…

Last week on Wednesday, January 8th, GitHub experienced an outage of our DNS infrastructure. As a result of this outage, our customers experienced 42 minutes of downtime of services along…

CSS selectors are to frontend development as SQL statements are to the backend. Aside from their origin in CSS, we use them all over our JavaScript. Importantly, selectors are declarative,…

If you’ll be in Salt Lake City this weekend for SkiPHP, ng-conf, or just because, you have two chances to hang out with me, @alysonla, and your fellow techies! 👍…

Jen Myers joined us in December of 2013 for the 7th installment of our Passion Projects talk series. Jen taught us the importance of not being an expert and how…

We’re happy to announce a new hacknight at our San Francisco headquarters: Patchwork. Learning open source, together Patchwork is a hands on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. We’d love…

At the tail end of 2013, we hit an incredible milestone–10 million repositories. Now it’s time to party! Come hang out with us at GitHub Headquarters in San Francisco. Nod…