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GitHub finally announces official mobile app for iOS and Android

6 days

GitHub today announced that official GitHub mobile app is coming to iOS and Android devices. With GitHub for mobile, you can review code, merge changes and share feedback from anywhere. Since GitHub for mobile is built as a native...

Microsoft’s new proposal aims to improve your experience with PWAs

by Anmol

4 weeks

Back in 2018, Microsoft started working on PWAs for Windows 10 to improve the user experience and compete with Google who currently dominates the PWA space with their own set of apps. With PWAs Microsoft also hoped to close the ap...

Microsoft GitHub explains why it won’t unplug services for U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (...

by Pradeep

1 month

Early today, there were some reports that accused GitHub of providing technology services to the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency which has bad immigration policies, including the practice of separating fami...

Microsoft’s Github acquires Semmle, a code analysis platform for finding zero-days

by Pradeep

2 months

Semmle is a code analysis platform for finding zero-days and automating variant analysis. Semmle’s semantic code analysis engine allows developers to write queries that identify code patterns in large codebases and search for vu...

GitHub Student Developer Pack is a must have for student developers, offers $45,000 in savings

by Pradeep

3 months

Real world developer tools will cost a fortune. So, it is not possible for most students to get hands-on experience with most developer tools. To solve this problem, GitHub introduced Student Developer Pack six years ago. GitHub S...

Great news for developers, GitHub now supports security keys and biometric options for authentication

by Pradeep

3 months

If you are a regular GitHub user, you must be aware of the fact that account security is critical. Passwords are simply not enough to protect online accounts. In order improve the security of GitHub accounts, GitHub yesterday ann...

Developer: “GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons”

by Atiya

4 months

Microsoft has once again been caught up in another geopolitical tangle after US imposed trade controls sanctions that affected Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. This week, Anatoliy Kashkin, 21-year-old Russian citizen, ...

Microsoft GitHub acquires Pull Panda

by Pradeep

5 months

GitHub today announced that it is acquiring Pull Panda. Pull Panda enables efficient and effective code review workflows on GitHub. It has three products: Pull Reminders, Pull Analytics, and Pull Assigner. All these three products...

GitHub Desktop 2.0 released, allows you to resolve merge conflicts more easily

by Pradeep

6 months

GitHub Desktop 2.0 is here and it comes with several new features to improve developer workflow. This new update allows you to resolve merge conflicts easily, comes with support for rebasing, stashing, and more. Learn more about t...

Microsoft brings Patreon model to GitHub

by Surur

6 months

With only one move Microsoft has cemented GitHub as the ultimate Open Source repository, by finally finding a way to get developers paid. GitHub Sponsors is a new feature of GitHub which would allow users to reward developers fina...

GitHub Sponsors will allow you to fund the developers who build and maintain the code you use

by Pradeep

6 months

During the GitHub Sattelite conference today, GitHub introduced a new program called GitHub Sponsors. GitHub Sponsors is a new way by which anyone can financially support the developers who build the open source software you use e...

Open Source Advocates express concern about Microsoft monopolizing OSS tooling

by Anmol

6 months

Since the acquisition of GitHub, Microsoft has been gunning for an open source system where the company is allowing developers to use the platform to add features to its services. This even continued at Build where Microsoft annou...