GitHub Blog·5yThank you, GitHub
I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke will be GitHub’s next CEO. I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin. My heartfelt thanks to every Hubber and every developer who makes GitHub what it is, every day.
GitHub Blog·5yIntroducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
GitHub Copilot is a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code. It draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions. As you type, it adapts to the way you write code to help you complete your work faster.
GitHub Blog·5yGitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
GitHub is making Codespaces available to Team and Enterprise Cloud plans on GitHub.com. Codespaces provides software teams a faster, more collaborative development environment in the cloud. GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces. Adopting Codespaces has provided us with an opportunity to improve our overall development experience.
GitHub Blog·5yIntroducing the new GitHub Issues
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.
GitHub Blog·4y5 automations every developer should be running
GitHub Actions offers thousands of pre-written, community-built tests and automations that range from code quality to code review to testing. CodeQL finds security advisories across coding languages and packages, and then automatically displays them in your repository’s security tab. Run npm test in your workflows to push the latest and greatest software.
GitHub Blog·5yBuilding the next phase of GitHub, together
GitHub CEO Nat Geo Wojcicki is stepping down on November 15th. Wozniacki started coding in the late 1980s on a Robotron KC 87 and then on a Commodore 64. GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility. We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform or cloud.
GitHub Blog·4yImproving GitHub code search
GitHub is rolling out a technology preview for substantial improvements to searching code on GitHub. We want to give you an early look at our efforts and get your feedback as we iterate on helping you explore and discover code. Sign up for the waitlist now, and give us your feedback!
GitHub Blog·5y10 GitHub Actions resources to bookmark from the basics to CI/CD
GitHub Actions offers powerful automation and CI/CD functionality that’s platform-native and accessible right from your repository on GitHub. Try the following steps to learn how automation on GitHub works and how it can simplify your workflows. Try building your own workflows with GitHub Actions templates, testing your actions, and monitoring your workflow with the visualization graph.
GitHub Blog·5ynpm 7 is now generally available!
NPM 7 is now generally available. It includes new features and some breaking changes. We have made a significant impact on the performance of npm 7 as compared to npm 6. We want to conclude by giving a big shout out to our community members who submitted changes, participated in the RFC calls, provided feedback.
GitHub Blog·5yA framework for building Open Graph images
GitHub has a new tool for automatically generating social sharing images. It uses the GitHub GraphQL API to collect data, generates some HTML from a template, and pipes it to Puppeteer to “take a screenshot” of that HTML. Open Graph is a set of standards for websites to be able to declare metadata that platforms can pick out.
GitHub Blog·5yRelease Radar · March 2021 Edition
The Community Open Source Release Radar is published every month. This month's list includes new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There are a lot of first version releases in March, so get excited to be wowed by new products. Grab your leftover Easter eggs, put the coffee on, and read our top staff picks.
GitHub Blog·5yGitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions, allowing anyone to make custom commands that build on the core functionality of the tool. Each extension is just a repository prefixed with gh- and you can easily define the extension. To learn more about creating extensions, check out the documentation and explore the repositories for the example extensions below.
GitHub Blog·5yOpen source goes to Mars 🚀
The first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) It’s also an achievement powered, in part, by an invisible team of open source developers from around the world.
GitHub Blog·5yGitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021
Hacktoberfest is a yearly event to encourage people to contribute to open source in October. In the past year, we’ve seen over 2.2 billion contributions to projects on GitHub from more than 65 million developers. There are over 74,000 projects participating in Hack toberfest.
GitHub Blog·5yLevel up your code with TwilioQuest
TwilioQuest is a game built by Twilio to teach students how to code. It follows a storyline where “Operators” complete missions to save “The Cloud.” Each mission is a different programming skill or language. One in particular, called “Flame of Open Source,” will help you contribute to an open source project.
GitHub Blog·5yGame Off 2021 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… Bug! Submit a game incorporating the theme between now and December 1. After a few weeks of playing and rating the games by participants, the winners will be announced shortly thereafter. Nobody’t judging the code quality, so lots of bugs are both expected and accepted. Focus on having fun!
GitHub Blog·4y5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From CI/CD to containerization management and server provisioning, DevOps gets a lot of buzz in tech today. From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows. Here are three “DevOps tools’ that can speed up your workflows and let you focus on building great software.