New Year, New CEO for GitHub
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…
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Five years
Five years ago today, @defunkt, @pjhyett, and I gathered in our online chat room and prepared to push a commit to GitHub that would finally mark the public launch of…
Investing in GitHub
Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. Why now? In four short years we’ve done a lot we’re really proud of. We’ve shipped…
Responsible Disclosure Policy
There has been some confusion over today’s security vulnerability and our policy on responsible disclosure and account suspension that I’d like to clear up. Three days ago, user @homakov opened…
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation
At 8:49am Pacific Time this morning a GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the public key update form in order to add his public key to the rails organization.…
PyCodeConf Tickets On Sale
Today we are happy to announce the opening of ticket sales for PyCodeConf, our follow up to the great CodeConf event we hosted earlier this year. Ticket sales are open…
GitHub Cofounder Tom Preston-Werner on Founder.LY
A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with the guys from Founder.LY. We talked about GitHub, strategies for early stage startups, and a bit of my background.…
Blacktocat 2.0 Shirt and Octopint Glasses
Check it. Blacktocat’s back with a whole new direction. He’s exited stealth mode and is ready for primetime, now with a stylish, more visible front logo. Octopint Glasses are here…
Octocat Nerd Merit Badges For Sale
Nerd Merit Badges bring the fun of collecting merit badges to those of us with a penchant for late night coding sessions and weekends poring over esoteric nerd folklore. Get…
Boulder Talks and Drinkup this Thursday, Feb 10
I will be in Boulder on Thursday, February 10th giving talks at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and BLUG (Boulder Linux User’s Group). The BLUG talk will be titled…
Improved Gist Search
One of my New Year’s resolutions for this year is to make GitHub search awesome. Today I’m happy to announce that Phase One of this project is complete, in the…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PST
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…
3D GitHub Badge with Pure HTML/CSS
Nico Hagenburger released a nifty bit of HTML/CSS today that allows you to get the famous “Fork me on GitHub” banner on the corner of your site. But this time,…
Cyber Monday: 25% Off All Merch!
It’s Cyber Monday and we’ve decided to do something special. For today only you can get 25% off any orders you make at The GitHub Shop! Sale ends Tuesday morning…
Sirron Norris Octocat GelaSkins
A few months ago I contacted one of my favorite local San Francisco artists, Sirron Norris, to see if he would create a custom piece for us featuring the Octocat,…
New! I [octocat] Code Shirt
Here at GitHub we take our t-shirts seriously. So far we’ve produced the world famous “fork you” shirt, and the sold-out limited edition “all your rebase are belong to us”…