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In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability,…

The year 2020 has upended nearly every aspect of society. In a panel for GitHub Satellite back in May, we briefly covered some of the ways in which our social…

IntroductionIn November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services.November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32 minutes)The SSL…

Change is inevitable, and this year, it has been inescapable. We’ve had to find new ways to relate, learn, and balance both work and life at home. One thing has…

GitHub has the privilege of partnering with thousands of organizations to improve their DevOps practices, from established enterprises transforming the way they work to born-in-the-cloud businesses. We often connect developers,…

Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.

Earlier this year, we upgraded the notifications experience on GitHub, focusing on filters that get you straight to the updates that matter most to you. Just last week, we shipped…

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…

The GitHub Archive Program announces its latest milestone: storing collections of the most popular and depended upon open source repositories in beautiful art cases featuring 3D-printed and AI-generated artwork in significant libraries around the world.

The latest version of GitHub Desktop includes split diffs, PRs with Actions status, more control over stashing, and discarding changes from files.

As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material…

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. 

Today in America, it’s Veterans Day, a federal holiday to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. As a veteran myself, I know that honoring veterans is…

In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.

Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact…

The theme for this year’s Game Off is MOONSHOT. moonshot – noun an extremely ambitious and innovative project the act of launching a spacecraft to the moon a hit or thrown…

WARNING: This post contains zombies, werewolves, extra dimensional beings, mummies, and more! Proceed at your own risk.Trick or treat yourself to some fangtastic Halloween-themed games this weekend. These were created…

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

This is the second post in our series on DevOps fundamentals. For a guide to what DevOps is and answers to common DevOps myths check out part one. What role…

Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.