Blog Posts

• 22 Nov 2011 » Open Source (Almost) Everything
• 03 May 2011 » Rejected Bio from The Setup
• 29 Mar 2011 » Ten Lessons from GitHub's First Year
• 18 Oct 2010 » Optimize for Happiness
• 23 Aug 2010 » Readme Driven Development
• 11 May 2010 » TomDoc - Reasonable Ruby Documentation
• 19 May 2009 » The Git Parable
• 17 Nov 2008 » Blogging Like a Hacker
• 03 Nov 2008 » How to Meet Your Next Cofounder
• 27 Oct 2008 » Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic
• 18 Oct 2008 » How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

Interviews, Talks, Etc

• 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

Prominent Open Source Projects

• Gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
• Jekyll: A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).
• God: Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility.
• Grit: Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).
• Ernie: Ruby/Erlang Hybrid BERT-RPC server.
• ProxyMachine: Layer 7 routing proxy in Ruby with Event Machine.
• Primer: JavaScript based Flash-like API layered on top of Canvas.
• Chronic: Ruby natural language date/time parser.