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Students don’t leave Ming Chow’s course until they are prepared to hold their own on an engineering team. Full stop. What’s required for those rigorous engineering roles? “Experience making tangible…

For over three years, the GitHub Developer Program has been a launchpad for developers—from testing their newest applications to growing their biggest businesses. Now, we’re excited to build on what’s…

In February, we shipped the “Recover Accounts Elsewhere” feature to help people regain access to their accounts if they lose access to their two-factor device or token. It is an…

There’s still time to register for GitHub Satellite, and now you can buy a ticket knowing more about what’s in store. Hear from the GitHub team You’ll start day one…

GitHub has supported using an alternate “noreply” email address to author web-based commits for a while now. Starting today, there’s another way to ensure you don’t inadvertently publish your email…

We’re celebrating almost a decade of code, collaboration, and octocats! Over the last nine years, our community has grown to almost 20 million users, 57 million repositories, and 100 million…

If you haven’t grabbed your GitHub Satellite ticket yet, we’re making it easier to get there. A select number of free tickets are now available through scholarships and community partners.…

A course organized around users, not exams In his Startup Programming course at the University of Victoria, Alexey Zagalsky asks students to design products based on user needs. Working together…

General admission tickets for GitHub Satellite 2017 are now on sale. Join us at Printworks in London May 22-23 for the regional extension of our flagship product and user conference,…

Earlier today, Microsoft announced the shutdown plans for CodePlex. We’re working with the CodePlex team to streamline the experience of importing projects to GitHub for CodePlex users. As always, we…

Not every team manages their work on GitHub in the same way. Now you can disable repository and organization-wide Projects if you’re not using them. Users with admin privileges on…

At GitHub, we recognize that running a great business over the long term requires a measure of “work/life balance” – and that includes recognizing that developers and other knowledge workers…

A few weeks ago, researchers announced SHAttered, the first collision of the SHA-1 hash function. Starting today, all SHA-1 computations on GitHub.com will detect and reject any Git content that…

Data science is a melting pot of disciplines: students from Anthropology to Political Science to Education all sign up for the same course. It’s a challenge to keep the material…

Back in September we added open source licenses to repository overview pages. Now, when you view a repository’s license, we’ll tell you a bit more about it. If a project…

Humans need at least 3.5 contribution mugs worth of water every day. This 18-ounce mug can help contribute to even the most demanding of hydration habits. Mix the contribution graph…

In honor of our Bug Bounty Program’s third birthday, we kicked off a promotional bounty period in January and February. In addition to bonus payouts, the scope of the bug…

Starting today, all Markdown user content hosted in our website, including user comments, wikis, and .md files in repositories will be parsed and rendered following a formal specification for GitHub Flavored Markdown.

We’re releasing a formal specification of the syntax for GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its corresponding reference implementation.

Stop by the Tap House Grill on Thursday March 9th, 2017 from 6 to 9PM. Photo CC-BY Tiffany Von Arnim The GitHub Education team is in town for SIGCSE, the…

There’s a new way to reinforce your team’s code reviews. Now you can specify who in your organization can dismiss reviews on a protected branch. In the last year, we’ve…