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New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started

AI & ML

January 24, 2025

New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started

So, you’ve heard about open source. You know it’s a great way to learn new skills, build up your resume, and give back to the developer community—but maybe you’re not sure where to begin. Getting involved in open source can

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That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024

Business

January 23, 2025

That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024

This is our first GitHub Innovation Graph data release in 2025 and our first data release after celebrating the Innovation Graph’s first birthday, so we’d like to reflect a bit on how things have gone so far and share our

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Open Source

January 22, 2025

Attacks on Maven proxy repositories

As someone who’s been breaking the security of Java applications for many years, I was always curious about the supply chain attacks on Java libraries. In 2019, I accidentally discovered an arbitrary file read vulnerability on search.maven.org, a website that

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Github

January 22, 2025

Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Let’s talk about legacy code—you know, the code that’s old enough to drive and definitely old enough to haunt your dreams. Maybe it’s a sprawling COBOL system or an early version of C++ written back when “Y2K” was a serious

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Technology

January 21, 2025

Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem

Seven years ago, we surveyed 5,500 open source contributors to understand the people who use, build, and maintain open source software. This year, we repeated the effort to understand how the open source ecosystem has evolved in the face of

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Technology

January 17, 2025

How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot

There are so many AI models to choose from these days. From the proprietary foundation models of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to the smaller, more open options from the likes of Meta and Mistral. It’s tempting to hop immediately to

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Developer skills

January 17, 2025

Supporting the next generation of developers

We believe that software is at the center of human progress and that all software builds on the work of others, especially open source, through an interconnected community of developers. We need to level the playing field to spark innovation

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Github

January 15, 2025

GitHub Availability Report: December 2024

In December, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. December 17 14:17 UTC (lasting 17 minutes) On December 17, 2024, between 14:33 UTC and 14:50 UTC, users experienced intermittent errors and timeouts when accessing github.com.

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AI & ML

January 15, 2025

Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Why did the developer bring a flashlight to the legacy codebase? Because every time they tried to refactor it, they found more bugs hiding in the dark corners. The thing is, working with legacy code can also be bad—worse than

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Github

January 15, 2025

How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub

In December 2024, we announced gh-skyline, a GitHub CLI extension that allows our developer community to generate a 3D version of their GitHub Contribution Graph into an STL file ready for printing on a 3D printer, just in time to

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New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started

That’s a wrap: GitHub Innovation Graph in 2024

Attacks on Maven proxy repositories

Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem

How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot

Supporting the next generation of developers

GitHub Availability Report: December 2024

Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples

How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub

New to open source?

Best Ways To Use

GitHub Availability Report: December

Supporting the next generation

Best Ways To Use

New to open source?

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Attacks on Maven proxy

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