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Distributed — Building a culture of innovation in your business with GitHub

Building a culture of innovation in your business with GitHub

Consider the typical software development practices in an organization. Projects are commonly closed, and causes friction across engineering teams. But open source communities work asynchronously, openly, remotely and at global-scale. What if our internal teams could reuse those same practices?

CRChris ReddingtonChris Reddington·May 8, 2023Distributed
Frontend — Learning JavaScript With Imagination — Smashing Magazine

Learning JavaScript With Imagination — Smashing Magazine

This is the story of how one little octopus, explaining one beginner’s concept, carried such weight and power for Kylo that it drove his work and led him to research something that is really quite silly. And yet, it transformed how he learned to write — and finally understand — JavaScript.

KRKylo RobinsonKylo Robinson·May 5, 2023Frontend
Performance — GitHub Availability Report: April 2023

GitHub Availability Report: April 2023

In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three March incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

JOJakub OleksyJakub Oleksy·May 3, 2023Performance
Security — The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. These malware families – including Ducktail, NodeStealer and newer malware posing as ChatGPT and other similar tools– targeted people through malicious browser ex

MEMeta Engineering·May 3, 2023Security