Tom Preston-Werner

 I’ve converted our participation graphs (as seen above) to use Canvas instead of Flash. Linux users rejoice! This means the graphs should load quite a bit faster and not…

 It’s hard to imagine, but just one year ago today we made the first commit to the GitHub repository. We don’t have a baby book for GitHub, so we’ll…

 The 2008 Rails Rumble is set to start tonight at midnight and we’ll be sponsoring the competition in two ways. First, we’re providing free private repositories for each of…

 It’s been almost 6 months since we released the network graph and since then it has become an indispensable part of the GitHub experience. Over that period I’ve been…

David Baldwin has said goodbye to WordPress and started using GitHub as his blog. Go see for yourself: github.com/bilson/blog I love seeing novel uses of git and GitHub and this…

We now detect and display submodules making it easy to see what other code is being referenced via our web interface.  If the submodule points to a repo on…

You asked for them and we listened. We now have two GitHub shirt designs for sale via rubyrags.com! The one and only, classic “Fork You” shirt is sure to turn…

Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd…

I’ve just added a small diff enhancement that will help you determine what changed in one line diff sections. By highlighting the specific changes, you can now see at a…

The 350 GitHub t-shirts we gave away at RailsConf 2008 last weekend were a huge hit! For anyone that wasn’t there, the fronts say “fork you” and the backs say…

A security warning posted on the Debian security list today warns that SSH keys generated on Debian based systems (including Ubuntu) have a highly predictable random number generator. This corroborates…

Speaking of GitHub as a Fluid App, I’ve whipped up a better icon. This one looks nicer in the dock and doesn’t get lost if you have a dark desktop…

Our goal here at GitHub is to break down the barriers that normally impede collaboration. One of the biggest challenges that we face as developers is keeping track of what…