Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
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Highlights from Game Off 2020
Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! 🌛 Here are some of the top-rated games as voted on by the developers
How to launch a tech career in 2021
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.
Let’s talk about securing open source projects
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open Source Security Coalition (OSSC) where
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines? How can these options impact
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that you can work on your
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined alongside Cisco, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft,
Visualizing GitHub’s global community
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. In the first post, my teammate Tobias shared how we made the 3D globe come to life, with lots of
How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the
2020 has been a year of change, with shifts to the way organizations of every size connect, collaborate, and build together. From our 2020 State of the Octoverse report to last week’s GitHub Universe, we’ve
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more.
