Chris Wanstrath

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Parasite: Firebug for GTK+

Parasite is a Firebug-like tool for debugging and tinkering with running GTK+ applications, hosted right here on GitHub. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-kusk953ys4pis917csqs7ne9i8.png) From the page: You can actually modify your application logic while…

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An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

Crafting RubyGems with Jeweler

technicalpickles, author of jeweler, has posted a tutorial on his blog: Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-jekfid82gi3pmpxix57biry22r.png) Check it out for info on how to build your own GitHub…

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Is [my show] on yet?

Now you’ll always know! technoweenie and seaofclouds have joined forces to bring us isLOSTonyet.com and isBSGonyet.com. More shows to come, they promise. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090120-tge7skxb963s2tq7kmdthawsuw.png) The code to both sites is hosted…

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Sexy JS Curls

Sexy Curls is a pretty cool JavaScript effect. You can see it in action on their page. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090119-b495f4y1gk3ushepndtea7gt7s.png) The repo is available on GitHub.

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Daily Git Tips

Git ready, git set… go! Git ready is on fire, serving daily git tips for “the noob to the guru.” ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090119-f516rb8r7j369upitm251n2xdr.png) Today’s tip? The staging area. Great job qrush!

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GitHub Sync

Dustin is on fire. His newest trick? GitHub Sync. Use it to track a user’s GitHub projects. All of them. Once [the sync] finishes, you will have all of my…

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While you were sleeping…

…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were. For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6141231/90a54842-b157-11e4-84fe-ba2b9418598b.png)…

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Octobadges

Nerd Merit Badges has their first badge on the way, and guess who it is. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090112-c81sx6is8prd466y9rnxfy2yag.jpg) That’s right: our very own Octocat! You can enter your email address or follow…

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Hello, Punch Graph

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6141279/f5b9bfc4-b157-11e4-988b-0a69d87a9cd5.png) Neat. Update Forker Dustin Sallings has some more punch card fun.

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Best Bootstrapped Startup of 2008

We won! Thanks for voting everyone, we (obviously) could not have done this without you. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090111-1smyniqjmqsq3yjwmb84q7xg5u.jpg) ![](http://img.skitch.com/20090111-82depen4frub57jaxu9m1f8nnu.jpg) Here’s the full list of winners. Thanks for a great 2008!

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Wiki Subdomain

We just rolled out a security fix that puts all wikis under the @wiki.github.com@ subdomain. This means they can execute arbitrary JavaScript (like scriptaculous does, or maybe the Lighthouse Badge)…

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Vote for GitHub!

GitHub was nominated by TechCrunch in the ‘Best Bootstrapped Startup’ category for their 2008 Crunchie awards. Please help us out by voting for GitHub You can vote once per day.…

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Is it Christmas?

Everyone’s favorite SSS Is it Christmas is hosted right here on GitHub. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20081224-nxfgphwiikf2emwmd534dcbcgg.png) The code is fairly interesting, with a bit of localization and geolocating going on. Check it out!