GitHub wants to make sure its entire warehouse of open source code survives an apocalypse by burying it deep within an Arctic vault as one of several preservation strategies. The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is a data repository preserved in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a very-long-term archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost […]
Read More →Guetzli, a new open source algorithm from google that creates high quality JPEG images with file sizes 35% smaller than currently available methods, enabling webmasters to create webpages that can load faster and use even less data. Guetzli is designed to work on high quality images (e.g. that haven’t been already compressed with other JPEG […]
Read More →Open Source Guides are a collection of resources for individuals, communities, and companies who want to learn how to run and contribute to an open source project. The first set of Open Source Guides were created and curated by GitHub, along with input from outside community reviewers, but they are not exclusive to GitHub products. […]
Read More →Nuclide is an open-source licensed IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Github’s Atom. The idea is to pack the power of IDEs while cutting down on the time developers can spend starting them, recovering from crashes, and indexing code. Nuclide was designed to support Facebook’s own React JavaScript library and […]
Read More →Being a developer it helps looking @ others code. It also helps when other devs comment on your code. Social coding has caught up big time and GitHub is at the epicenter of this action. This blog post is not about how to use GitHub or GitPages, but more on how easily you can reach […]
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