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Dashboard Tweaks

Your owned and watched repositories in the dashboard sidebar are now ordered by the most recent push and limited to 10. The watched repos sidebar also has a “public /…

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Double Billing Receipts

If you received two email receipts tonight it’s because we accidentally billed you twice. That said, the second charge has already been voided. In the craziness of migrating hosts we…

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BioPython on GitHub

BioPython has moved development to GitHub. Read about it in their blog post or check out their GitUsage guide. img http://img.skitch.com/20090924-t52bbe8xiuyjyajbwpcp4i13xk.png http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page They join BioRuby and all the other bio…

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GitHub Meetup SF #6

![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/1562113829_5fe3e0f405.jpg) This Thursday, September 24th ride your pony on down to this week’s drinkup at Homestead, 7:30pm. Buy a bowl of peanuts for a buck and throw the shells on…

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Ack!

I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack Watch the project and start…

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Ref Names in URLs

We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You’d take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You…

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New Project Root URLs

As some may have noticed, project root URLs now drop the “/tree/default_branch” suffix. What was once http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master is now http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll. (Of course “tree/master” will 301 redirect, don’t worry.) Enjoy!

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GitHub Meetup: Chicago

Our Portland meetup was success – thanks to everyone for coming out! Tomorrow (September 15th) night I’ll be at the Twisted Spoke in Chicago around 7:30pm. img http://img.skitch.com/20090914-k2ay69hhtyty1jmf3qmjwjfg3n.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-twisted-spoke-chicago img…

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Starting with Git guide

Hot on the heels of my git setup script, user Sirupsen has made a Starting with Git guide. Okay, that’s a lie, he actually published his guide two days before…

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Git setup script

I’ve been plotting to make the git and GitHub setup process a bit easier for new users, so I spent a small portion of my labor day weekend actually doing…

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GitHub Meetup SF #5

Look at you. Fretting over your busy social calendar. You know its GitHub drinkup Thursday and yet you’ve just heard about the Functional Alcoholics meetup going on the same night!…

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