Chris Wanstrath

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Has my gem built yet?

James Smith wants you to know if your gem has built yet. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195421/c7bdd73c-d766-11e5-9040-a9c2b1727dd0.png) It’s open source, too. Thanks James!

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Git Down: Success!

Last week’s Git Down was great. Thanks to all who came out, and sorry to all who missed it. ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2921649057_26948a3bd3.jpg?v=0) ![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2922498828_c6e908d37b.jpg?v=0) I’ve posted a few pictures on my Flickr account.

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Code Search On Vacation

The Code Search feature will be taking a brief vacation as we try to iron out some kinks with it. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195426/e1fe9e9c-d766-11e5-821b-fdddcc2ac709.png)

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Git Down: Tomorrow!

If you swing by you may possibly learn about any of the following: code_swarm git-sh magit GitHub on the iPhone You will definitely get some free beer and a chance…

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Token Authentication

We’ve just added site-wide token based authentication. You can find your API token in your account page, front and center. Simply pass login and token to any URL which requires…

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ZendCon 2008 Pics

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Kindle Winner

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GitHub Decimates!

Russell Mull discusses his experience hacking on Cappuccino: While playing with cappuccino, I thought I’d fix a few bugs. So I made a github account and cloned the full repo.…

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PostgreSQL on GitHub

Okay no, they’re not here yet. But the amazing PostgreSQL has a git mirror which can only mean one thing – they need to move to GitHub. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195397/210dab60-d766-11e5-94ac-8009b5e89134.png) Are you…

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Git Down Speaker #2

rictic will be showing off his code_swarm fork, which you may have seen in this video. ![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/391331/13195385/b9117960-d765-11e5-8a8d-c94bfd51a063.png) We still need more speakers – if you’ve got anything interesting and Git…