
Effective writing from a practitioner is a style distinct from academic writing or thought-leadership content. It relies on authority from experience (not credentials), naming tensions but letting them live, keeping the author in the writing, and the expectation that readers recognize the pattern from their own experience.

See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.

Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what’s next.

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn’t. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.

The conversations we’re still replaying from Config’s Leadership Collective.

Hack Days are a core part of Shopify’s experimentation culture. Here’s one project that made product pages sing.

The v0 engineering team breaks down the challenges and decisions behind building the v0 app for iOS.

GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa’s most ambitious digital reform efforts.

How GitHub’s culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.

Smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta Vanguards need to pack enough energy to power features like cameras, speakers, AI workloads, and even a display. But it all has to fit into the glasses’ temple arms. So how do you place a battery with enough power to run a pair of smart glasses […]

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along with our Q4 2025 data release.

This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare.

What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.

As contribution volume grows, mentorship signals are harder to read. The 3 Cs framework helps maintainers mentor more strategically… without burning out.

See how GitHub is investing in open source security funding maintainers, partnering with Alpha-Omega, and expanding access to help reduce burden and strengthen software supply chains.

Developers connected to Andela share how they’re learning AI tools inside real production workflows.


Let’s dig into the 2025’s open source data on GitHub to see what we can learn about the future.

Learn how The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped 67 critical AI‑stack projects accelerate fixes, strengthen ecosystems, and advance open source resilience.

Open source is hitting an “Eternal September.” As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.

The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in the years to come.

Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which is why we open-sourced StyleX, a solution for CSS at scale. StyleX combines the ergonomics of CSS-in-JS with the performance of static CSS. It allows atomic styling of components […]

Most developers spend their days fixing bugs, shipping features, and jumping into the next sprint without even thinking about it. After a while, you begin to ask yourself, “Is this still what I want to be doing?” This article looks at how you can move into a new direction in your career without starting from scratch, and how the skills you already use, like problem-solving, communication, and empa

Looking ahead to the New Year? These GitHub Podcast episodes help you cut through the noise and build with more confidence across AI, open source, and developer tools.

From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort.

The 2025 Typed Python Survey, conducted by contributors from JetBrains, Meta, and the broader Python typing community, offers a comprehensive look at the current state of Python’s type system and developer tooling. With 1,241 responses (a 15% increase from last year), the survey captures the evolving sentiment, challenges, and opportunities around Python typing in the […]

We’re going behind the scenes of the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s most advanced AI glasses yet. In a previous episode we met the team behind the Meta Neural Band, the EMG wristband packaged with the Ray-Ban Display. Now we’re delving into the glasses themselves. Kenan and Emanuel, from Meta’s Wearables org, join Pascal Hartig on […]

MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here’s how that will affect developers.

Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.

Coinciding with the ACM’s Internet Measurement Conference, the Cloudflare Research team is publishing a series of posts this week to share their research on building a more measurable, resilient, and transparent Internet. These posts will cover foundational concepts in Internet measurement, Internet resilience, cryptography, and networking.

Learn what it really takes to sustain one of the web’s most widely used frameworks on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.

Hear about the personal tools we use to improve our workflows (and how to get started building your own) on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.

For years, the boundaries between product development roles have become less defined. Our latest report quantifies this shift and explores what it means for you and your team.

An inside look at how the Images team compared dichotomous image segmentation models to identify and isolate subjects in an image from the background.

Learn how GitHub Models helps open source maintainers automate repetitive tasks like issue triage, duplicate detection, and contributor onboarding — saving hours each week.

We sit down with Jason Lengstorf on the GitHub Podcast, where he shares his perspective on education, AI, open source, and more.

See what’s happening at Universe 2025, from experimental dev tools and career coaching to community-powered spaces. Save $400 on your pass with Early Bird pricing.

Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.

OKRs have become a popular way to connect strategy with execution in large organizations. But when they are set in a top‑down cascade, they often lose their meaning. Teams receive objectives they didn’t help create, and the result is weak commitment and little real change. High‑performing teams work in another way. They define their own objectives in an organization that uses a collaborative proce

Learn how maintainers are using the GitHub MCP Server and what they are building in this episode of the GitHub Podcast.

Learn how the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped 71 open source projects significantly improve their security posture through direct funding, expert guidance, and actionable playbooks.

Duolingo’s Math team ditches traditional handoff in favor of co-creation, scrappy prototypes, and constant experimentation.

Introducing the brand new GitHub Podcast: A show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories, and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.

Open source software is critical infrastructure, but it’s underfunded. With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

Have you ever worked is legacy code? Are you curious what it takes to modernize systems at a massive scale? Pascal Hartig is joined on the latest Meta Tech Podcast by Elaine and Buping, two software engineers working on a bold project to rewrite the decades-old C code in one of Meta’s core messaging libraries […]

AI can help you code faster, but knowing why the code works—and sharpening your human-in-the-loop skills—is what makes you a great developer.

Get insights on the latest trends from GitHub experts while catching up on these exciting new projects.


Plus, ways teammates and leaders can be better mentors for their new counterparts.

Back in 2017, engineers at Meta sought to create a type checker for Instagram’s typed Python codebase. Years later, as the type system continued to evolve, that type checker eventually became Pyrefly. Pyrefly is a new type checker and IDE experience for Python, written with Rust, and now available for the entire Python community to […]

Three maintainers share their tips for gracefully sunsetting open source projects.

This May marks the fifth annual Maintainer Month, and there are lots of treats in store: new badges, special discounts, events with experts, and more.

The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more.

Get insights on the latest trends from GitHub experts while catching up on these exciting new projects.

Want to speak at a tech conference? These four practical tips will help your session proposal stand out—and land you on the stage.

Learn how to identify which CVE Numbering Authority is responsible for the record, how to contact them, and what to include with your suggestion.