Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHubThree new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
09/23/22
GitHub for Startups is generally availableWe’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world's largest developer platform.
09/22/22
Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub usersOn September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.
09/21/22
Applications for micro-mentoring at GitHub Universe 2022 are now liveStudents have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact.
09/21/22
The ReadME Project: Built for you!The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development.
09/21/22
Why we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for DemocracyAs the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That's why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We're committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, and we encourage you to join us in this pledge.
09/21/22
Transform your software engineering practices with GitHub EnterpriseGo beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices.
09/20/22
“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code VaultGitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/202 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a Tech Tree, a human-readable selection of works describing software, computers, and their foundational technologies, along with full-text copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other data sources.
09/20/22
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHubThree new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
09/19/22
5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub UniverseHere are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!
09/19/22
5 tips for prioritizing Dependabot alertsDependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.
09/19/22
How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub ActionsThe GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
09/16/22
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub CopilotDevelopers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.
09/14/22
Scaling Git’s garbage collectionA tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.
09/13/22
Join GitHub at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022We’re thrilled to be back at the Grace Hopper Celebration at Open Source Day, the largest celebration of women in open source. Stop by and say hi at one of our workshops.
09/13/22
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus featuresCalling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
09/12/22
SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you?We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.
09/09/22
GitHub Copilot now available for teachersAfter a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus.
09/08/22
Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and MexicoRead the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.
09/08/22
GitHub Availability Report: August 2022In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July.