Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate! 🍀 May your tests be as green as your contributions. Sláinte! 🟩 💚 🍻

You know that thing you do every. single. time someone opens an issue? Or pushes to main? Or creates a PR? Stop doing it manually. Our next episode of GitHub for Beginners dives into automating your workflows with GitHub Actions.

Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and India fueled a massive surge in 2025, adding nearly 36 million new developers to GitHub. 🌏 India alone added 5.2 million. 🇮🇳 But how do we turn this record growth into healthy communities? Here is how open source scales in a global era. 📈

The standard libraries already include π. But where’s the fun in that? Happy #PiDay! 🍕

Friday 13th. Don't let a black Octocat cross your path today. https://thegithubshop.com/products/gh-0008-plush-octocat

For everyone asking about the GitHub Universe badge, yes it does...

The latest episode of The Download is out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iG8...

GitHub Copilot Dev Days are coming to a city near you. 🏙️ Starting March 14, connect with your local dev community to level up your Copilot skills. Here's your opportunity to: ✅ Learn new features ✅ Watch live demos ✅ Apply real-world workflows Find an event or sign up to host. 👇

How do you keep track of your work? Our tip for beginners: say goodbye to that extra meeting, and hello to Issues and Projects. GitHub for Beginners season 3 is back and here to help you level up—or dust off—your GitHub skills.

We're back, and this time we're answering the questions you've been asking: From "How do I start with GitHub issues?" to "How do I build a portfolio?" Learn GitHub from the people who built it. Coming soon!

0 results found? Not anymore. 🙅‍♀️ Semantic search for GitHub Issues is now in public preview. It understands your intent, not just exact terms—so you still find what you need, even with a slight mismatch. Learn more. 🔎 https://gh.io/AAzw0ci

New update for pull requests. 🚀 You can now follow the discussion directly in the "Files changed" tab. No more context switching. Plus, we streamlined change requests: If you’ve already commented, skip the summary and just submit. Get the details. ⬇️

It just got a lot easier to spin up new GitHub Projects! You can now import things from a query (same queries as in Issues):

Agent Sessions Day is TOMORROW! An event dedicated to multi-agent development in VS Code - with live coding, insights from the product team, and some surprises ✨ 🔔 Set notifications on YouTube: youtube.com/live/tAezuMS...

This week on Open Source Friday 👇 10 a.m. PT: Fatih Kadir Akin demos how to turn prompt libraries into living tools (not static lists). 12 p.m. PT: Mitchell Hashimoto talks vouch, a community trust management system to protect issues, pull requests, and contributors. Set your reminders. 🔔

Who knows how to secure open source better than the maintainers themselves? 🛡️

We asked Copilot to interpret the five love languages for you this Valentine's Day. 💚

And we're particularly excited about using this to help open-source maintainers. When we showed this to @frenck.social, the maintainer of Home Assistant, he wrote a workflow that reads the traces for bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not. True noise elimination for OSS.

We're super jazzed to be launching GitHub Agentic Workflows into technical preview today! "Generative AI" kind of fooled us into thinking that AI is synchronous, but async AI can have so much more value for us as developers. 🧵 github.blog/ai-and-ml/au...

It's back! 👀 The GitHub Innovation Graph has been updated with fresh data. 📊 Find out who's leading in git pushes, repositories, developers, and organizations. 🏎️ https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/year-recap-and-future-goals-for-the-github-innovation-graph/

Open source is growing faster than ever. But to manage that growth, maintainers need better tools to scale. ⚒️ Here's our plan to make maintaining easier, quieter, and more sustainable. 👇

On this National Inventors’ Day, revisit our exclusive interviews with your favorite creators in software. 🧵👇

Building a simple app with AI isn't always ... simple. 👀 @chrisreddington.com learned a lot from creating a countdown app with GitHub Copilot, like managing context windows, using the Plan agent, and sticking to test-driven development. He ties it all together in this deep dive. 👇

TL;DR crowd, this is for you. 💚 You can now pin comments on an issue. 📌 https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-05-pinned-comments-on-github-issues/

Big update for mobile reviews. 🚨 You can finally comment on unchanged lines in PR files on GitHub Mobile. 📱 Tap any line -> Leave a note -> Keep moving. ✅ Update your app.👇 github.com/mobile

Tomorrow on Open Source Friday ⬇️ 5 a.m. PT: CJ Pais demos the free, open source app for speech to text, Handy. 🗣️ 8 a.m. PT: Patrick Nikoletich shows how to use the new GitHub Copilot SDK. 🤖 10 a.m. PT: Raphael Amorim talks Rio Terminal, a GPU terminal emulator. 💻 Set your reminders. ⏰

You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it! Here’s what’s new: 🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents 🔀 Parallel subagents 💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents 🌐 Integrated browser & more...

We hear the questions constantly: Does AI actually help, or is it just hype? 🤔 So @cassidoo.co dug into the feedback to find out what developers really use AI for, and where it makes the biggest difference in their work. Here's what she discovered. ⬇️

Ready to use GitHub Copilot inside OpenCode? Support has officially landed for all Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. 🚀 Watch how to connect your account ▶️ or get more details here.👇 https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-16-github-copilot-now-supports-opencode/

Space invaders have landed in your README profiles. 👾 This GitHub Action turns your commit history into a retro, space-invading arcade animation for your profile. https://github.com/czl9707/gh-space-shooter

What was your first exposure to computing?

Why did TypeScript work when so many languages didn't? Anders Hejlsberg, the mind behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript shares his thoughts and learnings.

🇪🇺 The EU wants to boost open source with better funding and a new strategy, and they're looking for your feedback. Here's your chance to shape the future of EU tech policy. Share your opinion by February 3. Learn more.👇

Building something with the GitHub Copilot SDK? 🛠️ Today's the last day to submit your project to our contest. Can't wait to see what you come up with. ⬇️ https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1qkz7oj/lets_build_copilot_sdk_weekend_contest_with_prizes/

Building something with the GitHub Copilot SDK? We'd love to see it 👀 Join our contest this weekend 👇 https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1qkz7oj/lets_build_copilot_sdk_weekend_contest_with_prizes/

I built a web app with the GitHub Copilot SDK to make analyzing log files easier. It'll summarize them, provide a root cause analysis, and also link any GitHub issues they could be related to ✨ Check out the GitHub Copilot SDK here: github.com/github/copil...

The @github.com Copilot SDK is live and it's really awesome! Learn more about it and try it out: github.com/github/copil...

Starting adding agents into ANY app with the new GitHub Copilot SDK powered by the Copilot CLI! I'll show you how to get setup and build some awesome apps in minutes! Let's Build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsEP... #githubcopilot #githubcopilotcli

The GitHub Copilot SDK is here 🙌 You can take the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and embed it in any application, with just a few lines of code. github.com/github/copil...

It's a double feature this Open Source Friday! 🍿 8 a.m. PT: @steipete.me demos Clawdbot, the open source AI assistant that lives in WhatsApp, Discord, and iMessage. 12 p.m. PT: @danielroe.dev talks @nuxt.com, frontend performance, and the real state of open source. Set your reminders.👇

Today on Open Source Friday 🎙️ Dennis Ivy from @appwrite.io joins us to chat: • building in public with open source • full-stack development workflows • community-driven product development • migration strategies between platforms Set a reminder👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TAeO4FnKM

Happy National Sticker Day! Here are a few of our favorites. ⭐ Grab a set of your own at the GitHub Shop. 👇 https://thegithubshop.com/collections/stickers

We asked for WAVES. You delivered 700+ games, all free to play, with source code you can actually poke at. Meet the top 10 entries from Game Off 2025 🌊👇 https://github.blog/open-source/gaming/light-waves-rising-tides-and-drifting-ships-game-off-2025-winners/

Don't wait for the next malware campaign to audit your security. 👀 Steps to lock down your supply chain now: ✅ Enable phishing-resistant MFA (Passkeys/WebAuthn) ✅ Rotate & scope tokens ✅ Review third-party access A little cleanup today can save you from a massive headache tomorrow. 😅

These 12 open source teams brought the creativity, the engineering craft, and the “I need to try that” demos that make GitHub Universe special. Here's what they showcased this past year, and how you can join the next cohort in 2026. ⬇️

Kick off the new year with 5 essential episodes of the GitHub Podcast. 🎧 Go beyond trends and tools. Learn practical ways to think more clearly about where software is headed and how to grow alongside it. If 2026 is about building with intention, start here.👇

Happy New Year! What are your New Year's resolutions? (Ours is 3840 x 2160)

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We reached 1 million stars across our open source projects this year! 🎉⭐️

Before we head into 2026, let's recap 2025. ⏪ gh.io/octoverse