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# Blog Posts

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# Highlighted Media

- 02 Sep 2013 » Article: WIRED - GitHub Is Going Mainstream
- 09 Nov 2011 » Video: RubyConf Argentina - Optimizing For Happiness
- 01 Oct 2011 » Video: RubyConf - GitHub Flavored Ruby
- 23 Nov 2010 » Video: Erlang Factory - Mastering Git Basics

# Other Interviews, Talks, Etc

- 12 Sep 2013 » Video: Fox Business News interview
- 02 Sep 2013 » Article: WIRED - GitHub Is Going Mainstream
- 25 Jul 2013 » Video: O'Reilly Media - OSCON 2013 Interview
- 28 Dec 2012 » Article: NYTimes - Dreams of ‘Open’ Everything
- 20 Oct 2012 » Video: Startup School 2012 - People, Product, Philosophy
- 27 Sep 2012 » Video (Panel): Orrick - How to Build a Great Startup Culture
- 18 Jun 2012 » Article: GigaOm - 10 Innovators Changing the Game for Internet Infrastructure
- 02 Dec 2011 » Video: Northern Lights Conference - Leveling Up
- 12 Nov 2011 » Slides: RubyConf Uruguay - GitHub Flavored Ruby
- 09 Nov 2011 » Slides: RubyConf Argentina - Optimizing For Happiness
- 14 Apr 2011 » Video: ACCU Conference - Optimizing For Happiness
- 09 Apr 2011 » SitePoint Podcast: Social Coding with GitHub’s Tom Preston-Werner
- 10 Feb 2011 » Video: NCAR SEA: Unlocking the Secrets of Git
- 12 Jan 2011 » Maestros del Web: Tom Preston-Werner fundador de GitHub
- 11 Nov 2010 » Video: RubyConf 2010 - The Road from Ruby Hacker to Entrepreneur
- 16 Oct 2010 » Lambdaphant interview with Tom Preston-Werner
- 16 Oct 2010 » Video: Startup School - Optimize for Happiness
- 16 Sep 2010 » Video: @mail.ru Office Presentation
- 14 Sep 2010 » Video: @mail.ru Tech Forum in Moscow
- 11 Sep 2010 » Photo: FunConf Speech in Ireland
- 07 Sep 2010 » SchnitzelConf: Virality and Community
- 27 Aug 2010 » Video: Lone Star Ruby Conf Keynote
- 16 Aug 2010 » InfoQ: Erlang Factory Interview - Tom Preston-Werner and Kenneth Lundin
- 03 Aug 2010 » 37signals: Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
- 17 Jun 2010 » WebPulp.tv: Interview with GitHub CTO Tom Preston-Werner
- 27 Apr 2010 » The Next Web 2010: Interview about Gravatar and Online Reputation
- 27 Apr 2010 » TNW 2010: What I Learned From Bootstrapping a Side Project Into GitHub
- 19 Nov 2009 » RubyConf 2009 Talk: BERT and Ernie: Scaling your Ruby site with Erlang
- 21 Aug 2009 » Linux Magazine: The GitHub Hall of Fame - Jekyll Review
- 27 Jul 2009 » Yahoo Developer Talk: Git, GitHub, and Social Coding
- 22 Jul 2009 » Envy Labs: 5 Days of OSCON Interview
- 30 Apr 2009 » Erlang Factory 09: Mixing Erlang and Ruby with Erlectricity
- 23 Apr 2009 » BusinessWeek: Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009
- 17 Jan 2009 » RubyFringe 2008: Conceptual Algorithms
- 09 Oct 2008 » InfoQ: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang
- 11 Jul 2008 » Rubyology 65: Powerset Stars 2 of 2
- 05 Jul 2008 » Rubyology 65: Powerset Stars 1 of 2
- 13 Jun 2008 » Web 2.0 Show: GitHub (Tom Preston-Werner & Chris Wanstrath)
- 02 Jun 2008 » Gregg Pollack: Dave Fayram and Tom Preston-Werner at RailsConf
- 29 May 2008 » RailsConf 08: Two talks
- 18 Oct 2007 » Gravatar Blog: Automattic Acquires Gravatar
- 16 Aug 2007 » Steve Newcomb Blog: Interview with Tom Preston-Werner
- 26 Dec 2006 » WordPress Podcast: Interview with Tom Werner
- 02 Apr 2005 » JoshuaInk: Seven and a half questions for Tom Werner

# Noteworthy Open Source Projects and Specifications

- Jekyll: A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
- Semantic Versioning: A meaningful method for incrementing version numbers.
- TOML: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language.
- God: Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
- Chronic: Ruby natural language date/time parser.
- TomDoc: Code documentation for humans.
- ProxyMachine: Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
- Gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- Grit: Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
- Ernie: Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.