Inside GitHub. Checkout combination of ‘web 2.0’ polyglot technologies used to cache and bring performance to the user experience.

Always an admirer of icons designed for internationalization.

9-bits:

Say Hello to Octicons

GitHub describes their process in creating and using a custom @font-face for icons throughout the site. Beyond these spiffy new icons, the entire design at GitHub seems to get iterated and improved upon constantly.

whatupdave:

We are, as software developers, in various states of alone-ness.

A company I worked at once had been operating for years under the assumption that it was OK for software to take months to integrate and deploy; they had never heard of continuous integration. They thought it was normal to rewrite…

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git