Force a Gem Rebuild
In my crusade to improve our Gem support, I’ve added the ability for you to initiate a Gem build right from the interface. If your Gem build fails, it’s often…
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Get your GitHub Stickers!
img http://img.skitch.com/20090219-cp2i7jt4s15t1emehu2uyq15yj.png Guess who received a shipment of 2,000 GitHub stickers a few weeks ago! Me, baby, me. And these are high quality vinyl stickers, sure to last to the…
Dave Peck’s Go
img http://img.skitch.com/20090222-8ycbtt4mw3tytma39m8xu436q1.png http://go.davepeck.org I used to be really into the game of Go. I even made my own board once from a panel of Beech wood. Painted the lines and…
Git and GitHub: A Free Course by RubyLearning
If you’re new to Git and/or GitHub and want to take your skills to the next level, you’ll definitely want to check out [Git and GitHu]( A Free Course”:http://rubylearning.com/blog/2009/02/10/git-and-github-a-free-course/) by…
More Disk Space for All!
I hope everyone had a Happy 1234567890 Day! To commemorate the ultimate geek moment, we’ve decided to give you the ultimate geek gift: more disk space on every GitHub account!…
YQL 3rd Party Table Definitions
Yahoo recently extended YQL to enable developers to define custom table schemas for 3rd party services. Seeing this, @spullara decided to collect some custom table schemas together in one place.…
Robust Archive Downloads
img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-xrypc923ceu1pbj3kwxx714gm3.png Tonight we rolled out a massive change to how we generate downloadable archives. Now when you hit the zip or tgz icon you’ll see a “loading” box as…
QuirkeyCode
img http://img.skitch.com/20090210-ki5psk2u56umjyyrjexs7ejrid.png http://code.quirkey.com The most rewarding part of running GitHub is seeing all the great code and ideas that people are showing off via the site. Earlier tonight I saw…
Fork You Sighting at Casa Bonita
img http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3258791960_c2411f2925.jpg Starring @3n, @takeo, and @lansing, and taken by @KirinDave (my old coworkers from Powerset/Microsoft). Some sleuthing shows this to have been taken at Casa Bonita in Denver. In…
Game of Life Engineered to Print Stuff
The very clever @tlrobinson has taken the Game of Life and used it to generate arbitrary line drawings, starting with the Reddit alien. The code is called life-gen and hosted…
Hyde – The Python Static Site Generator
img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-q26tmesnecrjwi2bjmecm1qyi5.png Hyde is @lakshmivyas’ evil Python transformation of my own Ruby Jekyll project, according to the backstory: About a week back I wanted to open source a few jQuery…
Copy and Paste is so Yesterday
Getting a clone URL into your clipboard is now just a single click away!
Open Source Japanese Curry
img http://img.skitch.com/20090204-eji9cs6mj3sw2pt5qfj7s64u27.png I found this open source recipe for Japanese curry this evening after a hard day’s work and it made me laugh (read to the end). I love seeing…
ChocTop: Easy Custom DMGs and Sparkle XML
The unstoppable Dr Nic has just dropped another amazing piece of software in our laps. This time it’s ChocTop, and it’s hosted right here on GitHub. From the README: Package…
NatsuLiphone iPhone Twitter Client
I just learned this morning that my favorite iPhone Twitter client, NatsuLiphone, is open source and on GitHub! If you’re into iPhone development and Twitter, find a comfortable chair, sit…
Want Git preinstalled on next Mac OS X?
I have a dream wherein future developers don’t even have to install Git for themselves in order to be able to use it. Apple has shown a very forward thinking…