$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community 🔗
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day. The post $100 million for open source [...]
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The cost of saying yes has changed 🔗
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 post The [...]
GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials 🔗
New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confiden [...]
Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it. 🔗
How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evi [...]
How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner 🔗
GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 day [...]
Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows 🔗
Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The [...]
GitHub availability report: June 2026 🔗
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: June 2026 app [...]
How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages 🔗
Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record. The post How GitHub [...]
Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide 🔗
New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies. Th [...]
How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero 🔗
GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reac [...]