GitHub stories

GitHub’s vice president of product management, Jeremy Epling, says that IT is increasingly relying on developers for security, testing, and responsibility for production operations.>>

Developers have added more than 1.9 billion contributions, as well as more than 60 million repositories.>>

Barely 12 months after launching an initiative to preserve open source software for future generations, GitHub is now sharing these collections with major libraries around the world.>>

GitHub says these developments reflect the fact that more developers are turning to mobile apps to get their coding done.>>

GitHub has recently rolled out code scanning to help developers detect and prevent vulnerabilities from popping up in their open source and enterprise code.>>

Microsoft, LinkedIn and GitHub have reached 10 million learners globally since announcing their digital skills initiative. The ultimate aim is to help 25 million people worldwide gain more digital skills in 2020. >>

"As a privacy project, decentralisation is essential for long term sustainability which includes governance and funding.">>

Australia is the 13th largest user of open source in the world, a new report released by GitHub has revealed. >>

We look at the new differential privacy library that Google has open-sourced>>

GitHub has announced new capabilities that make it easier for developers to report vulnerabilities directly from their repositories.>>

GitHub’s learning platform GitHub Classroom will now work with popular student platforms including Canvas, Google Classroom, and Moodle.>>

GitHub Desktop has evolved to version 2.0, bringing more capabilities to developers that better support workflows.>>

In addition to GitHub Sponsors, GitHub is launching the GitHub Sponsors, GitHub will match all contributions up to $5,000 during a developer’s first year in GitHub Sponsors.>>

Australia is crying out for at least 35,000 skilled IT experts who will be desperately needed to serve organisations large and small this year.>>

“We’re proud to have such a long-standing member of the open source community migrate to GitHub.">>

GitHub’s Bug Bounty program is now five years old and to mark the occasion it has revamped the program’s scope, rewards, and new legal rules.>>

Developers who use GitHub as a repository space can save themselves a little more money.>>

JavaScript is still a winner when it comes to programming languages but Kotlin, HCL, TypeScript and PowerShell are quickly climbing the ranks.>>

GitHub is primarily a collaborative approach to coding and technical expertise, but dig a little deeper and you find that the company is so much more.>>

The US$7.5 billion deal brings Microsoft closer to the heart of developer communities; with new CEO Nat Friedman replacing former GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath.>>

Between 2017 and 2018 there has been a 44% jump in the number of organisations using GitHub across public and private repositories.>>

Look beyond the code on GitHub and you’ll see a huge community of people from almost every corner of the globe contributing to more than 96 million repositories.>>

“These past ten years have been the most transformative in tech,” says GitHub SVP Technology Jason Warner.>>

GitHub says the new features are just a few of a swath of improvements that will be coming to Atom.>>