Chris Wanstrath

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IronRuby on GitHub

Microsoft’s IronRuby is moving to GitHub. ![](http://img.skitch.com/20081125-xugx44mr4yrqcgpxc3kw2nejew.png) They’ve already been here for a while, but now the main repository is officially moving. IronRuby joins Rubinius and dozens of other language…

An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.
An illustration of two octocats repairing a robot.

Gist.vim and Gist.el

Vim user? Emacs true believer? Don’t feel left out – we’ve got Gist support for you too! ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195539/f8af2082-d769-11e5-9d8a-fa5c72085ddb.png) ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195542/089ad09a-d76a-11e5-90ab-c19bfce3c6c4.png) Vim users can grab Gist.vim (GitHub repo) while Emacsers will enjoy…

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Gist Support for TextMate

gtcaz has begun improving the Gist support in drnic’s GitHub TextMate Bundle ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195530/bf6445b4-d769-11e5-98dd-408cb84e3835.png) The Gist support was originally written by mattmatt. It uses gist.rb and supports authentication out of the…

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GitHub and Eclipse

Update: You should check eclipse.github.com instead. Using Eclipse? Interested in GitHub integration? You may be in luck with EGit and this GitHub Guide by PEZ. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195527/9b7f8bb8-d769-11e5-9c58-e740af328fea.png) If you can help…

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GitHub Is About People

Recent GitHub convert bigeasy has written a blog post title GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities. It’s great…

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gh > hg

Surely you’ve seen the new GitHub gem features? Well it just got more awesome – again! Now you can use it in place of the normal @git@ binary. $ github…

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More Slowness Eradicated

Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other “write” DB operations are now much faster. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/6120157/ffcd7c0c-b086-11e4-8ff8-3d371d75ffe0.png) That is all.