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where code goes to be judged by strangers, forked by rivals, and forgotten in three weeks.
means a hosting platform where developers store, version, and collaborate on code using git.
from launched in 2008 built atop linus torvalds' git, named for the 'hub' where distributed code repositories meet; microsoft bought it for 7.5 billion in 2018.
octocatthe mascot is half octopus, half cat, fully copyrighted
green squaresthe contribution graph turned coding into a guilt trip
largest hostholds over 400 million repositories worldwide