Github engineering

If you maintain an active repository, you know the feeling. You open your notifications on a Monday morning and there […]

The most expensive part of a small feature request used to be writing the code. Now it’s usually the meeting

Give an agent better tools and it should do better work. That’s the instinct, anyway. When you open a pull

“Where are the docs?” It’s a question nobody on a product team enjoys answering. The honest reply is usually some

When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just

Did you know that, at GitHub, we host all of our own source code on github.com? We do this because

Pull requests are the beating heart of GitHub. As engineers, this is where we spend a good portion of our

I may have just automated myself into a completely different job… This is a familiar pattern among software engineers, who

For years, accessibility feedback at GitHub didn’t have a clear place to go. Unlike typical product feedback, accessibility issues don’t

So much of what you interact with on GitHub depends on search—obviously the search bars and filtering experiences like the