Engineering

A look at how we improved the readability of code on GitHub.

The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experiences, and we overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver those features without compromising performance.

Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers.

How Primer’s updated light and dark theme color contrast strategy resolved hundreds of color-contrast-related accessibility issues over one thousand use cases.

Learn about tools and processes the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member.

Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…

Hear from Grafana Labs’ Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects.

GitHub Docs recently changed its site-search to Elasticsearch. Here’s how it was implemented.

A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index.

Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.

What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!

When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.

What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.

Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.

GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.