{"id":17971,"date":"2013-04-11T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=17971"},"modified":"2013-04-11T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T07:01:06","slug":"happy-birthday-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/happy-birthday-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, GitHub!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\">GitHub<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/1470-five-years\">five years old<\/a>. \u00a0I find it really difficult to believe that the service I rely on so heavily, both at work and at home, haven&#8217;t even been around so recently. \u00a0I use GitHub both at work, and at home. \u00a0 In fact, every single piece of development I do, even if that&#8217;s just for a one time bash oneliner, I start it with a new git repository. \u00a0And more often than not, that repository ends up being pushed to GitHub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17972\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/happy-birthday-github\/octocat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?fit=896%2C896&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"896,896\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"octocat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?fit=660%2C660&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17972\" alt=\"octocat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat-500x500.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?resize=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?resize=510%2C510&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?resize=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?resize=473%2C474&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/octocat.jpg?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, guys! 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