TL;DR One of the most harmful parts of the GitHub platform is the code contribution calendar. This “hacker score card” overemphasizes the value of commits over the other kinds of important contributions to open source projects, like doing code reviews and discussing bugs and new features on the issue tracker.
A method for giving credit to organizations that contribute code to Open Source
By tracking organizational contributions in Git commits, we can give organizations more tangible reasons to fund open source and help sustain it over time.
Is GitHub Cooked?
Track GitHub service incidents and outages. Real-time stats, incident history, and downtime analytics.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph
A satirical contribution graph: red squares track GitHub.com platform outages instead of green squares tracking commits.
GitHub
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
GitHub
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
GitHub Star History
View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.
A bright future for GitHub
Together, GitHub and Microsoft will work to make software development easier, more accessible, more intelligent, and more open.
Why Funding Open Source is Hard
tl;dr: Either developers need to change, or GitHub needs to change
The free tier of GitHub Codespaces permanently changed my workflows as a developer
I remember the GitHub Codespaces announcement. It sounded innovative and exciting, but I did not have a specific need for it. I enjoy…
I Don’t Want to Know What “Open Source” Means
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all on GitHub.
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.
