There are 27M Indian Users on GitHub

Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, posting on X:

27M devs building on @github in India
2M+ more joined in 2026
1 in 7 new devs are from India

Behind India’s economic growth is a relentless community of devs.

That’s a massive number, especially the 2M+ who’ve joined in 2026 alone. I’m guessing that’s largely due to the rise of AI-assisted coding and apps like OpenClaw, but it’s still good to see an entire generation of devs using modern tools and systems.

When I was in college, it was frustrating to see the world progress with newer programming languages and technologies while the syllabus we were being taught was stuck in the “ASP” era (not even ASP.NET)

April 13, 2026 · + Permalink

A Timeline & Family Tree or Operating Systems

Alphonse Eylenburg has taken the massive effort of creating this timeline & family tree of over 800 OSs in the history of computing.

In this post you’ll find a family tree and timeline of operating systems. I have tried to include all operating systems, no matter how old or obscure. Of course, a complete list is virtually impossible, as there is no way to catalogue all the tiny hobby and embedded systems that may exist somewhere.

Currently, the family tree includes between 800 and 900 different operating systems.

Phenomenal work.

/Via Stephen Hackett

August 5, 2021 · + Permalink

GitHub is Now Free For Teams

Nat Friedman making the announcement on the GitHub Blog:

We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts. All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone.

Until now, if your organization wanted to use GitHub for private development, you had to subscribe to one of our paid plans. But every developer on earth should have access to GitHub. Price shouldn’t be a barrier.

Fantastic!

He further adds…

We’re also reducing the price of our paid Team plan from $9 per user/month to $4 per user/month, effective immediately. Existing customers will have their bills automatically reduced going forward.

April 14, 2020 · + Permalink

GitHub Desktop

GitHub has introduced a new Desktop app for macOS and Windows platforms today.

Extend your GitHub workflow beyond your browser with GitHub Desktop, completely redesigned with Electron. Get a unified cross-platform experience that’s completely open source and ready to customize.

If you visit the page, the H1 tag on it reads “The new Native“.

If GitHub starts pushing for Electron apps as “native”, what hopes do we have left?

April 25, 2018 · + Permalink