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https://tangled.org builds on atproto for the social features.

I'm really happy to see large file support in Git core. Any external solution would have similar opt-in procedures. I really wanted it to work seamlessly with as few extra commands…

I just format the message in my text editor and paste it back into the commit message box before submitting.

> Realistically how many hours of work went into this upgrade process then? Eileen wrote about the actual process a year ago when GitHub upgraded from Rails 3.2 -> 5.2: https://git…

FWIW I've always heard it described as a thundering herd. Though, your description is spot on, according to Wikipedia [1]. The problem the article discusses is called a cache stamp…

Groupcache is one implementation in Go. However, it uses its own in-memory cache on your app servers instead of an external cache service. https://github.com/golang/groupcache http…

We typically run go's built-in server behind nginx. There's no need for something like gunicorn in go.

The first time we announced svn support, it WAS a joke: https://github.com/blog/31-back-to-subversion

GitHub also supports txt and other common document formats: https://github.com/blog/2061-attach-files-to-comments

Here's as close to an official response that I've seen publicly: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-GitHub-for-Mac-not-open-sourced/...

Correct. Though I wouldn't say the company is any less remote friendly than it used to be.

How do you handle a custom GOPATH like that when the current repository needs to be in there too? We've tried manually symlinking the repo dir into the custom '$GOPATH/src/github.c…

Migrations stay pretty small. Most of them just add a column or index. We also have to make sure tables aren't too hot to migrate. See a previous post for more on that: http://gith…

That's just a special staging server for Venture Brothers nerds (no one else wants to type all that out).

Yes, that's really important for the Git LFS project to us. Of the languages that we're comfortable with, it's the only one that met that requirement. I feel like there have been a…

I honestly hadn't seen git-bigstore. Git LFS started out as a Git Media update, actually. We changed the name pretty late in the process so that it didn't clash with existing Git M…

I think the main take-away with this post is that static sites for docs are awesome. GitHub uses [nanoc]( http://nanoc.ws/ ) for the [API documentation]( https://developer.github.c…

Imagemagick can convert a PSD into a PNG.

Work has started on the move to 3.2: https://twitter.com/charliesome/status/511517393038753794

We use MySQL with ActiveRecord primarily (with a few exceptions). So that's all Users, Repositories, Issues, etc. Git data gets stored with Git on separate file servers.

The query annotations show up as a mysql comment next to the query. I don't know if we have any automatic indexing of the annotations themselves. We try to stick to ruby/rails sinc…

> Basically, what makes GitHub's process different to the decades-old "grep the slow query log and run an EXPLAIN"? Sam's chatops tools opens this process up to a lot more people t…

Riak Search will do this for you. The Riak key/value store also has post-commit hooks that you can use: http://docs.basho.com/riak/1.2.1/references/appendices/conce...

Whatever happened, happened. There's no rebasing involved. There's just a lot of jumping around to various tags at different points in time.