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where code goes to be judged, forked, and occasionally set on fire by strangers.
means a web platform for hosting and collaborating on code using git, the version-control system that tracks every change.
from launched in 2008 by tom preston-werner, chris wanstrath, and pj hyett to make git — linus torvalds's brilliant but brutal command-line tool — actually usable by humans with a browser.
microsoft bought itfor 7.5 billion dollars in 2018.
the octocatis half cat, half tentacled alien mascot.
copilot lives hereai trained partly on github's own public code.
green squaresthe contribution graph turned coding into a guilt trip.