GitHub Blog

10 stories

GitHub BlogGitHubArnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in it. I know where the shops are.

11.03

GitHub BlogGitHubGame Off 2026: The theme is SHIFT It’s time to make Shift happen. Game Off , GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, returns for its 14th year this November.

11.01

GitHub BlogGitHubGitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack Our jobs as developers are changing. In a couple of years, we’ve gone from writing every line of code to working with AI assistants to orchestrating fleets of agents.

10.28

GitHub BlogGitHubOctoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents Developers pushed code to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.

10.28

GitHub BlogGitHubHow bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to spotlight another top-performing security researcher from the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program: @r31n !

10.22

GitHub BlogGitHubThe bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure Over the past year, while Git traffic grew exponentially, 99.99999% of the Git repositories on GitHub began living in two places at once: our own data centers and Azure.

10.21

GitHub BlogGitHubHow 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity AI coding tools can generate code quickly, but speed alone does not solve the hardest software engineering problems.

10.20

GitHub BlogGitHubHow to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code The agent has finished the bulk of your change. Now you want to inspect one implementation detail, adjust a few lines by hand, and run the project locally before you ship it.

10.19

GitHub BlogGitHubThe next developer interface is ambient intelligence For most of my career, building software started with the same setup: keyboard, mouse, editor, terminal, browser, and an impressive number of tabs I was definitely going to look at later.

10.15

GitHub BlogGitHubStaying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org Working with outside collaborators can add more work for a repository owner. You need to confirm who still needs access, change permissions as projects evolve, and archive repositories once…

10.15

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo