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Show your team colors on GitHub | Slack | etc. for the World Cup β½οΈ π
I have no idea if this will be a hit, a miss, or the kind of thing that gets exactly four stars and one confused issue, but I painstakingly crafted (and by which I mean lazily vibe-coded) a pretty decent little avatar generator for the 2026 World Cup. Itβs called FanFrame: World Cup 2026 Avatar Generator (naming is hard).
Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)
Home / Open Source / Gaming Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once. May 13, 2026 | 13 minutes Share: The first version of NetHack was released in 1987 as a heavily modified descendant of Hack, itself based on Rogue, a Unix-era experiment built for character-based terminals around 1980. The term “roguelike” later emerged in the early 1990s. This is also when Usenet communities, like rec.games.roguelike, were founded.
Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI
Home / AI & ML / GitHub Copilot Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon. May 12, 2026 | 8 minutes Share: I got nerd-sniped into the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge and made a questionable decision: I turned my codebase into a roguelike dungeon.
Register now for OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch. May 4, 2026 | 2 minutes Share: OpenClaw, one of the fastest-growing open source projects, has already picked up over 350,000 stars and an early community of builders exploring what agentic systems can actually do in practice. That’s why, on June 3, 2026, we are hosting OpenClaw: After Hours at GitHub HQ in San Francisco.
Dev Tartan: Deterministic Plaid from a GitHub Username
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built I built Dev Tartan, a small, dependency-free web app that generates a deterministic tartan pattern from any GitHub username. The idea is simple: every developer gets their own "clan" tartan. You enter a username, and the app produces a unique plaid pattern that will always be the same for that username. Under the hood: The username is lowercased and hashed using SHA-256 via the Web Crypto API.
I Built a Chrome Extension to hide noisy GitHub Issue timeline events (with Copilot CLI)
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built GitHub Issue Focus is a Chrome extension that hides noisy, automated timeline events on GitHub issues - project shuffles, label churn, assignment ping-pong, and other bot-generated chatter. If you’ve got lots of automation, projects, and/or overly enthusiastic labeling colleagues ಠ_ಠ, you know exactly what I mean. Here it is in action... Why I Built It I like my GitHub issues the way I like my sandwiches: simple. No mustard.
Is GitHub Having a Good Day? A macOS Menu Bar App Built with Copilot CLI
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built Is GitHub having a good day? GitHub Status Menu Bar is a native macOS menu bar app that answers that question instantly... without opening a browser, Slack, or your phone. It lives quietly in the menu bar as a single colored indicator (or a full-width, aggressively cheerful menu bar if that’s your thing).
Visualizing Real-Time-Ish GitHub Activity on a Rotating ASCII Globe in the Terminal
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built gh-firehose: A terminal-based, real-time-ish visualization of GitHub push activity rendered on a rotating ASCII globe. Similar to the fancy display in GitHub HQ, but maybe not quite as impressive LOL. The app streams recent push events from the GitHub Events API and turns them into a "global pulse" view: while the Earth rotates, pushes show up as quick flashes over land*. It logs users encountered and topics encountered.
A Procedurally Generated GitHub CLI Roguelike Where Every Dungeon Is Built from Your Code
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built GitHub Dungeons is my love letter to classic roguelike games, terminal nerdery, procedural generation, and my favorite Git client... with a healthy dose of "just one more try" energy. It’s a GitHub CLI extension that turns any repository into a playable roguelike dungeon. Every run is procedurally generated. Every dungeon is unique. And every dungeon is built from your actual codebase.
GitHub Changelog, Now in Your Terminal (Built with Copilot CLI)
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge. What I Built gh-changelog - A GitHub CLI extension that shows the latest updates from the GitHub Changelog. Demo My Experience with GitHub Copilot CLI I kicked off the project with a straightforward prompt: build a GitHub CLI extension in Go that surfaces the latest updates from the GitHub Changelog. Within minutes, I had a working prototype that fetched real data and did exactly what I asked.
Light waves, rising tides, and drifting ships: Game Off 2025 winners
Home / Open Source / Gaming Out of more than 700 games submitted to Game Off 2025, these ten winners stand out for creativity, craft, and bold interpretations of the WAVES theme. All are free to play, with source code available to explore. January 10, 2026 | 5 minutes Share: This year’s Game Off winners weren’t just inspired by the WAVES theme. They surfed it.
This year’s most influential open source projects
Home / Open Source / Maintainers From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort. December 22, 2025 | Updated January 6, 2026 | 9 minutes Share: From Appwrite to Zulip, the Open Source Zone at Universe 2025 was stacked with projects that pushed boundaries and turned heads.
GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement
Get ready for the annual Game Off, our month-long game jam that has inspired thousands of developers to make, share, and play games since 2012. Whether you’re a first-time jammer or a returning champion, this November is your chance to make something unforgettable. The theme for this year? WAVES! You have until December 1, 2025, at 13:37 PST to build a game loosely based on the theme. How you interpret it is entirely up to you. Don’t overthink it.
From karaoke terminals to AI résumés: The winners of GitHub’s For the Love of Code challenge
This summer, we invited devs to participate in our hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects. Here are the winners of For the Love of Code! October 22, 2025 | 11 minutes Share: Every developer has that project they build just for the fun of it. You know how it goes: you start by asking “what if?” and then you have something weird and wonderful hours later.
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings. October 9, 2025 | 3 minutes Share: Two decades after Linus’s first git commit, contributors from around the world gathered at GitHub HQ in San Francisco—not just to reflect on Git’s history, but to imagine its future. Git Merge 2025 marked 20 years of Git with technical talks, community collaboration, and the kind of hallway chats you can’t capture in slides.
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings. October 9, 2025 | 3 minutes Share: Two decades after Linus’s first git commit, contributors from around the world gathered at GitHub HQ in San Francisco—not just to reflect on Git’s history, but to imagine its future. Git Merge 2025 marked 20 years of Git with technical talks, community collaboration, and the kind of hallway chats you can’t capture in slides.
What’s next for Git? 20 years in, the community is still pushing forward
Git Merge 2025 isn’t just about celebrating 20 years of Git – it’s about what comes next. In this post, we’re highlighting some of the talks and speakers shaping Git’s future, from performance wins and new backends to surprising use cases and the impact of AI coding agents. September 22, 2025 | 2 minutes Share: This year marks 20 years since Git’s first commit. Since then, it’s become the default version control system for everything from weekend side projects to the largest monorepos in the world.
GitHub: How people build software | Product Hunt
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For the Love of Code: a summer hackathon for joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative projects
Code isn’t just for solving problems. It’s also for exploring ideas, expressing creativity, and building something just because it sparks joy. For the Love of Code is a global, summer-long hackathon for developers of all experience levels to build the project they’ve been thinking about but haven’t had a reason to start.
Shine a spotlight on your open source project
Celebrate #MaintainerMonth with two big opportunities to showcase your open source project at GitHub Universe and WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Applications are open. Don’t miss out! May 23, 2025 | 3 minutes Share: May is Maintainer Month–a chance to spotlight the people behind the projects powering the internet. We’re marking the occasion by opening applications to two high-profile opportunities where open source projects can take center stage.
4 steps to building a natural language search tool
Home / Open Source / Social impact Empowering humanitarian action with open source: A natural language search tool for UN Resolutions. January 30, 2025 | Updated January 29, 2025 | 4 minutes Share: “We have a problem. Our current search method for sifting through PDFs is extremely manual and time consuming. Is there an easier way?” As a developer, this is one of those questions that really gets me excited.
Showcase your open source project at SCALE 🐧 Pasadena, CA · March 6-9, 2025
Hi everyone! 👋 We're thrilled to invite open source maintainers to an amazing opportunity: showcasing your projects in the GitHub Booth at the 22nd annual SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo), happening March 6-9, 2025! SCALE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, held at the Pasadena Convention Center.
New to open source? Here’s everything you need to get started
Explore our simple guide to finding projects, understanding guidelines, and making an impact. January 24, 2025 | Updated January 22, 2025 | 5 minutes Share: So, you’ve heard about open source. You know it’s a great way to learn new skills, build up your resume, and give back to the developer community—but maybe you’re not sure where to begin. Getting involved in open source can raise all sorts of questions: Are there specific contribution guidelines?
Git security vulnerabilities announced
A new set of Git releases were published to address a variety of security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Take a look at GitHub’s view of the latest round of releases. January 14, 2025 | 2 minutes Share: Today, the Git project released new versions to address a pair of security vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-50349 and CVE-2024-52006, that affect all prior versions of Git.
Game Off 2024 winners
Secrets spilled, discovered, and hidden again—Game Off 2024 brought over 500 jaw-dropping submissions that redefined creativity in gaming. From cult quests for free furniture to spellbinding mysteries, these games will have you hooked. Ready to uncover the winners?!?
Highlights from Git 2.48
The open source Git project just released Git 2.48. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. January 10, 2025 | Updated January 15, 2025 | 8 minutes Share: The open source Git project just released Git 2.48 with features and bug fixes from over 93 contributors, 35 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.47 was released.
Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says
Home / News & insights / Research Findings in our latest study show that the quality of code written with GitHub Copilot is significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise. November 18, 2024 | 8 minutes Share: Related posts The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
Game Off 2024 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2024 recipients 🎉
Home / News & insights / Company news The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
Highlights from Git 2.47
Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here. October 7, 2024 | 9 minutes Share: The open source Git project just released Git 2.47 with features and bug fixes from over 83 contributors, 28 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.46 was released.
Leading the way: 10 projects in the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024
Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎 October 2, 2024 | Updated October 22, 2024 | 6 minutes Share: Get ready for two days of open source magic at GitHub Universe 2024, where innovation meets inspiration at San Francisco’s iconic Fort Mason.
The 10 best tools to green your software
Home / Open Source / Social impact Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint. September 18, 2024 | 7 minutes Share: This July, the world experienced the . The graph below, from a GitHub repository of open access climate visuals, shows the longer version of this story, where carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses have increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Gamedev.js Open Source Challenge Winners 🏆
The Gamedev.js 2024 game jam just wrapped up, where participants had 13 days to build HTML5 games based on the theme POWER ⚡ This year we sponsored the "Open Source Challenge" - encouraging participants to share the source code (with a license of their choosing). Here are the top five entries as voted on by all of the participants - ranging from strategic mazes and competitive puck battles to power management in outer space.
Showcase your open source project at top developer conferences in Berlin this summer 🇩🇪
This June and July, we are thrilled to partner with our friends at GitButler and WeAreDevelopers to offer open source maintainers two unique and exciting opportunities to present their projects at major developer events in Berlin.
Game Bytes · March 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Game news After 11 years of development, KeeperRL is celebrating the big 1.0 and is now out of early access.
Game Bytes · February 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️ Author Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more.
Game Bytes · January 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Author Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Game News YYYYYYESS! VVVVVV is still going strong.
Game Off 2023 results 🏆
The GitHub Game Off results are in! All games have been rated, ranked, and reviewed. Read on for a look at the ten highest-rated submissions overall. In this year’s GitHub Game Off, the theme was “Scale,” and oh, did the developers rise to the occasion. An impressive array of games (632 to be exact) were created in just one month and the creators spent thousands of hours over the last few weeks playing, rating, and reviewing each other’s games.
The ultimate gifts for the developer in your life this holiday season
‘Tis the season to celebrate the programmer, the debugger, and the coffee-fueled late-night coder in your life! If you’re on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for the developer who has it all, look no further (or if you’re that developer, send this on). We’ve curated a list of 10 must-have items (plus a few more) that strike the perfect balance between practicality and style. 1. Socks, really?! We’ve all been there. You open up your present and it’s yet another pair of socks.
Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community. We announced the award winners at GitHub Universe 2023, but here’s a recap for those that missed it! Open Source Awards Python Software Foundation (@psf) is not just a hub for Python development; it’s a community that embraces diversity and inclusion at its core.
GitHub Game Off 2023 theme announcement
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready? The theme for this year’s Game Off is SCALE! Verb to climb up something steep, such as a wall, building, or mountain. to change the size of something e.g. make something smaller (scale down) or increase the size, amount, or importance of something (scale up). to progress in a graduated series. to remove the small flat hard pieces of skin from a fish. to remove tartar and plaque from teeth. Noun a device for weighing people or objects.
13 fun and hackable games for Halloween 🎃
As Halloween approaches, I have a special treat for you: some short, sweet, and spooktacular games lovingly crafted during game jams such as Ludum Dare and Godot Wild Jam. All mixing programming languages like JavaScript and Haxe, game engines like Godot and Unity, and all sorts of code, pixels, and sounds in a creative cauldron for your enjoyment.
Game Bytes · September 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Game news Roboden is an inventive, real-time strategy game where you lead robotic colonies in conflict with enemy drones. The game plays with the RTS format in a couple of ways. First, factions are asymmetric: enemy units are not equivalent to your own.
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
This is a guest post from @lazerwalker (Emilia Lazer-Walker). Emilia is a Toronto-based artist/engineer and Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Most of her work focuses on using nontraditional interfaces to reframe everyday objects and spaces as playful experiences and to inspire people to become self-motivated learners. When Izzy first told me about her idea for the project A Little Game Called Mario, I was immediately sold on it.
Game Bytes · August 2023
Engine watch Bevy (previously on Game Bytes), a cross-platform game engine built in Rust, is celebrating the third anniversary of its initial public release. The Bevy team is also taking the opportunity to reflect on what the community has achieved and how to reach their goals in the year ahead. Bevy’s project lead has written thoughtfully about what the Bevy team did, how it compared to expectations, and invited others to do the same.
Game Bytes · July 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Engine Watch Godot 4.1 Godot, the increasingly popular open source game, engine recently released version 4.1. The release is the first in Godot’s new higher-frequency release cycle.
Game Bytes · June 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Engine watch Text Engine Text Engine is a retro-inspired JavaScript-based text adventure game engine. You can use Text Engine to compose your next great work of interactive fiction.
Open Source challenge results from Gamedev.js Jam 2023
This is a guest post by GitHub Star, @end3r. Andrzej Mazur is a web game developer and technical evangelist, founder of the Enclave Games indie studio, creator of the js13kGames competition, and builder of the Gamedev.js community. The Gamedev.js community started around the year 2012, but mostly revolved around local meetups at the beginning.
Game Bytes · May 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Engine watch Babylon.js 6.0 Babylon.js, an open source 3D game and rendering engine for the web, has just released version 6.0. It introduces a revamped physics API powered by a physics engine from Havok, alongside rendering improvements including fluid rendering, better reflections, and upgrades to Node Material.
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