PJ Hyett

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Optimizing Sales for Happiness

Looking for GitHub’s sales team? Please Contact Us. 10/17/14 Update from @pjhyett: Building products that people love paired with a customer-focused sales team hasn’t changed, but the specifics of our…

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How GitHub Works

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work at GitHub, check out Zach Holman’s (@holman) candid three-part series on how we operate: Hours are Bullshit Be Asynchronous Creativity is…

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How GitHub Develops

Scott Chacon (@schacon) has written a fantastic post regarding how we develop GitHub using GitHub itself. Do yourself a favor and head over to his blog: http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html If there’s only…

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GitHub Dominates the Forges

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk, a tech analyst firm, gave a presentation this morning entitled Survival of the Forges wherein he compared the four main software forges: Sourceforge, Google Code, GitHub,…

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Still Committing Like Crazy

About a year ago, I wrote a post talking about the avalanche of commits coming into GitHub. That Tuesday, GitHub received 33,154 pushes containing 109,290 commits. An insane number to…

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Twitter’s on GitHub

It just occurred to me that we never mentioned Twitter’s been open sourcing code like crazy on GitHub over the past few months. They’ve put together a really great Twitter…

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Slide on GitHub

Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.

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GitHub Tips

We’re always keeping an ear to the ground about GitHub and one of things that comes up a fair amount is improving our feature visibility. In other words, we offer…

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Committing like Crazy

Google Code had an anniversary today and they mentioned some of their stats. There was one in particular that I thought was pretty interesting: Today, there are more than 240,000…

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New Year, New Company

As of January 1, 2010 we’re operating this site as GitHub, Inc. What does that mean for you? In a word: nothing. We originally incorporated Logical Awesome LLC prior to…

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Palm Goes GitHub

It’s great to see more and more companies embracing open source. The latest to put their code on GitHub is Palm, with repos related to their webOS product. They join…