Remote work: How parents are adapting and working during COVID-19
GitHub parents share their tips for adapting during COVID-19 and working from home with kids.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Sarah Vessels
In this edition of GitHub Protips, Sarah Vessels shares how she expresses ideas in code and doesn’t stress about the nitty-gritty details of how to neatly organize branches.
Three bugs in the Go MySQL Driver
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
Ludum Dare 46 staff picks
10 games from Ludum Dare 46 for your entertainment and source code-viewing pleasure.
Remote work: How Finance, Legal, and IT made the shift to working from home
Traditional in-office teams share how they are adjusting to remote life
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Luke Hefson
With Luke Hefson’s many different roles at GitHub, he’s learned about tons of hacks and protips that he can’t wait to share with you.
Reflecting on joining GitHub and what’s next for GitHub Insights
With GitHub’s focus on developers, community, and customers, we can’t imagine a better place for our team to be.
Create and push tags in the latest GitHub Desktop 2.5 release
The latest GitHub Desktop release includes the most requested feature of the past six months: tags! Create, push, and view tags directly from GitHub Desktop.
Hot lava: A case study in hunting for network integer arithmetic flaws
We examine the dangers of network integer arithmetic based on a case study of security vulnerabilities reported to the ntop project.
GitHub Sponsors is out of beta for sponsored organizations
Have your team join Homebrew and JuliaLang, along with over 500 other organizations, in sponsoring open source projects, and the people behind them.
Remote work: Marketing and planning virtual events remotely
The GitHub marketing team shares best practices for working remotely and planning virtual events.
Capture the Flag 4—CodeQL and chill
Join our Capture the Flag challenge to use your CodeQL skills or learn new ones.
New from Satellite 2020: GitHub Discussions, Codespaces, securing code in private repositories, and more
See what we announced at our first virtual GitHub Satellite including a full dev environment on GitHub powered by VS Code, a new way to have discussions with your communities, new ways to secure projects with code scanning and secret scanning, and more.
Octoverse spotlight: An analysis of developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration in the early days of COVID-19
Following the 2019 Octoverse report, this latest article provides trends and insights into developer activity on GitHub in the early days of COVID-19.
How one student curbed panic buying with the Pack
Learn how Ben Sassoon used the Pack to curb panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Announcing the MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub
Now more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their growth, using real tools, and an experienced understanding of how to work remotely and globally. With this new program, we’re helping to support the next generation of developers and the open source projects that companies use every day.
Remote work: How global teams collaborate across time zones
GitHub international leaders share their insights on how to work with globally distributed teams.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Brian Douglas
Make better contributions, triage your issues efficiently, save time with saved replies, and more with @bdougie’s protips.
Triggering garbage collection with rejected promises to cause use-after-free in Chrome
In this post I’ll show how garbage collections (GC) in Chrome may be triggered with small memory allocations in unexpected places, which was then used to cause a use-after-free bug.
How to build an effective DevSecOps culture
By prioritizing secure development alongside speed, DevSecOps helps you ship safer applications by making security part of your current DevOps pipeline.
Remote work: Engineering’s perspective on humanizing the remote work experience
The GitHub engineering team shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Alyson La
Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!
Improving notifications for everyone
We’re dedicated to making notifications as simple and valuable as they can be, so you can be as productive on GitHub and you can be.
GitHub Actions: Community momentum, enterprise capabilities, and developer improvements
GitHub Actions continues its community momentum and ships new features for enterprises and developers.
Meet some of this year’s GitHub Satellite speakers
GitHub Satellite is back, and this year it’s virtual. Tune in at githubsatellite.com on May 6 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to hear from CEO Nat Friedman and developers around the world.
Stay on top of your code reviews with scheduled reminders
Scheduled reminders is out of beta to help your team be more efficient by reducing time spent waiting on code reviews, and more.
Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.
Remote work: Working together when we’re not together
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
GitHub Sponsors is now available in Mexico, plus some exciting updates
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available in Mexico, and we’ve also released a lot of exciting new features for sponsored developers, inspired by the community.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Jason Etcovitch
From GitHub Actions and magic URLs to gists, check out Jason Etcovich’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience.
npm has joined GitHub
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
Sawfish phishing campaign targets GitHub users
A phishing campaign targeting our customers lures GitHub users into providing their credentials (including two-factor authentication codes). Learn more about the threat and what you can do to protect yourself.
Git credential helper vulnerability announced
Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.
GitHub is free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
Remote work: A series of best practices for a remote workplace
GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.
From 48k lines of code to 10—the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK
Learn about the legacy, architecture, and methods used to reduce 48k lines of code to 10 as we take a deep dive into GitHub’s Javascript SDK.
Featured actions from the GitHub Actions Hackathon
We want to thank everyone who participated in the GitHub Actions Hackathon. We had hundreds of submissions, so here’s our top picks.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
Learn about open source in the social sector from our latest report
Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.
Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.
GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Vitor Monteiro
There are lots of hidden secrets, keyboard shortcuts, hacks, and more that can make you and your team’s GitHub experience more productive, personal, and entertaining. Here are some Protips that Vitor Monteiro, GitHub Strategic Architect, has picked up along the way that might be useful to you.
February service disruptions post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of February service disruptions that impacted GitHub services.
Six years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
Learn more about the Bug Bounty program, including a recap of 2019’s bugs, our expanded scope, new features, and more.
GitHub Desktop 2.4 introduces proxy support and issue creation
GitHub Desktop 2.4 gets you set up to work behind a proxy without having to configure anything manually, allows you to easily create an issue, and brings dark theme out of beta.
Easier organization and increased scalability for repository administrators
With easier organization and increased scalability, repository admins can more efficiently control access management to get users the permissions they need.
Getting started with GitHub Sponsors
This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.
Open collaboration on COVID-19
Explore some impactful open source projects being created by teams around the world in response to COVID-19.
Highlights from Git 2.26
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
GitHub Action Hero: Shohei Ueda
We spoke with our latest GitHub Action Hero, Shohei Ueda, about the story behind Hugo setup, mdbook Action, and a few other projects.
Getting to know the #NewYearNewPack winners
#NewYearNewPack winner Frank Matranga shares how the Pack helped him bring his open-source student planner to life.
Set up your digital classroom with GitHub Classroom
Many teachers are moving to virtual solutions for managing student assignments, projects, and grading. Join webinars hosted by GitHub Education Experts to share how teachers can manage and organize their class with GitHub Classroom.
CERT partners with GitHub Security Lab for automated remediation
Learn more about how we found ways to scale our vulnerability hunting efforts and empower others to do the same. In this post, we’ll take a deep-dive in the remediation of a security vulnerability with CERT.
Improve student success and increase teacher time with autograding
Learn more about autograding and how it provides students with immediate feedback they can apply before an assignment is due.
GitHub for mobile is now available
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
npm is joining GitHub
We’re excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
Enhancing our COVID-19 response to care for our community and team
We’ve taken further steps to ensure that our people can be safe and productive wherever they are, and that our community’s home on GitHub remains reliable and resilient.
Introducing autograding for GitHub Classroom and the GitHub Teacher Toolbox
GitHub Education introduces two new features to help you shape the next generation of software developers, with the GitHub Teacher Toolbox and more automation for GitHub Classroom.
Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020
Learn about five more reasons why every enterprise should make innersource a priority in 2020.
Five reasons why organizations should invest in open source
Learn about the top five reasons why leading enterprise organizations are investing in open source.
COVID-19 update: supporting our employees and community
Learn more about decisions we’ve made to protect our employees, our community, and our customers in response to COVID-19.