Having worked at GitHub and spent more time than is probably warranted tweaking my dotfiles , I consider myself a developer tools enthusiast. Recently, I found myself spending more and more of my free time smoothing out my development process, including hacking on auto-import for Haskell in VS… Read more

Sourcegraph 2.7 ships today, with tons of new features and improvements to help your team build better software. Get code intelligence in seconds with no setup, view diffs with code intelligence directly in Sourcegraph, and get more information when finding references. This release comes with many… Read more

Our product, Sourcegraph, lets software teams search and explore their code, so naturally we think a lot about how to help software teams ship better software faster. As we've grown, we've learned a lot from GitHub , Visual Studio Code , GitLab , and other teams who have shared their internal… Read more

Today, we're bringing fast, powerful code search to the thousands of development teams on Bitbucket Server. With Sourcegraph Server 2.6, we've built out native support for Bitbucket Server to make it easier to get code search across all your Bitbucket Server repositories. Follow these 4 steps to get… Read more

We’re excited to announce Sourcegraph Server 2.6, with tons of new features and improvements to help your team build better software. Search for and jump directly to symbols, search for the code you need more quickly, and set up Sourcegraph to search across all of your code--all available now. This… Read more

In Go, it is idiomatic to have explicit error handling. This means that many functions return an error in addition to the expected result (e.g. strconv.ParseBool ). Go code can also panic and recover , which is similar to throwing and catching exceptions in other languages. In Go, panic should… Read more

Monitor code changes with Google Alerts-style notifications, get code intelligence in reviews/PRs, and search over thousands of repositories in hundreds of milliseconds—all with Sourcegraph Server 2.5, shipping today. This release also includes other highly requested features, such as native GitLab… Read more

Sourcegraph Server 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin. This release also includes many performance and bug fixes, plus a better interface for… Read more

Search code over all of your company's repositories, save and reuse common search queries and scopes, and do it all more quickly with style. This release also includes previews of diff/commit search and author/date filters, which help you debug issues and find usage examples in your company’s code… Read more

Install Sourcegraph Server to get great code search on AWS CodeCommit Sourcegraph brings great code search and understanding abilities to development teams using AWS CodeCommit . Code search helps your engineering team find usage examples, debug errors, reuse existing libraries and packages, and… Read more

This is inspired by the classic essay Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager . Great code search is so fast and relevant that you use it constantly while coding. It’s one of your top keybindings. Bad code search is slow and stale, and you only find it useful a few times per week. If you haven’t… Read more

We've been hard at work on improvements to Sourcegraph Server to give you great code search on your company's code. Here's what's new and improved: Code search: There is now a directory listing view with the last Git commit for each subdirectory and file. Query terms are now interpreted as… Read more

Today, we're releasing more powerful code search on Sourcegraph.com and Sourcegraph Server. You can use operators such as repo: and file: to restrict your search to certain repositories and files (by regular expression match on their name). For example, repo:foo will restrict your query to… Read more

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We’ve been hard at work on some major improvements to how you edit, search, and review code. Today we’re excited to announce four big new features. What’s new and different: A single search box to search code and repositories, with regular expression and other advanced query support Streamlined… Read more

At Sourcegraph, we think you deserve code intelligence whenever you’re looking at code. So, when GitHub introduced embedded code snippets for GitHub issues, we quickly updated the Sourcegraph Chrome extension to add code intelligence to these snippets. Code intelligence on embedded code snippets… Read more

We’ve added a file tree to GitHub so that you can quickly explore an entire repository and jump between files without taking your hands off the keyboard. Get started by downloading the Sourcegraph for GitHub Chrome extension And then jump into a repository https://github.com/hootsuite/atlantis… Read more

Update (January 2018) : Sourcegraph Server is a free, self-hosted code search server that integrates with your code host and supports multi-repository, regexp, and diff searches. We've heard from many developers who want to use Sourcegraph to search and navigate their team's private code but who… Read more

Faster, smoother GitHub code browsing with the updated Sourcegraph Chrome extension. We’re excited to announce more improvements to the Sourcegraph Chrome extension. More than 10,000 developers use it to browse and search code on GitHub with the power of an IDE. In addition to the new features… Read more

Pick your favorite Java repository and a revision and file at random (or try this one ). Visit that file in Sourcegraph and within seconds, you can jump to definition (Ctrl/⌘-click), find all references (right click), search for symbols (Ctrl/⌘-p), and view usage examples drawn from other… Read more

Update (September 20, 2017): Viewing a list of repositories that refer to another repository is currently disabled. It will be added back soon. Viewing function call sites across repositories is still supported. We’re excited to announce that Sourcegraph “used by” badges now support Java… Read more

Today, we announce general availability for Java on Sourcegraph. If you write Java, this means that you can now use Sourcegraph to: Explore code without losing your place in your editor Get IDE-like functionality to your code review tool Learn from usage examples drawn from across the open-source… Read more

In-repository code search is now available in Sourcegraph. Simply click the magnifying glass icon above the file tree, type your search term, and click enter. Once you select a result, you’ll get full code intelligence , including our info panel whenever you click a method, variable or struct. In… Read more

Matt Holt is the creator of the popular Caddy Web Server. Caddy is called what it is because it acts like a compartment for all your server things. Most people use its HTTP server, but Caddy can also serve DNS , and there are a number of other plugins that extend Caddy’s functionality. Caddy is… Read more

Today, we’re enabling Code Intelligence on Sourcegraph.com for Java projects that use Maven. Our preview release of Java means you can jump to definition, find references, and hover over for docs on many of your favorite Java repositories — all without configuring a single editor plugin or cloning a… Read more

The problem of Code Intelligence and the need for an open standard Update: Part 2 of this series is now published . Sourcegraph lets you view any line of code in your web browser with all the navigation features of an IDE and more. That includes both classic abilities — like jump-to-definition… Read more

Making Code Intelligence “just work” In my last post , I introduced the Language Server Protocol as the open-source protocol that we at Sourcegraph believe will enable a new set of developer tools powered by Code Intelligence . Code Intelligence, if you recall, is just shorthand for jump-to-def… Read more

Update (September 20, 2017): Viewing a list of repositories that refer to another repository is currently disabled. It will be added back soon. Viewing function call sites across repositories is still supported. As an open-source author, I love seeing who else uses my projects. It’s super… Read more

First, some background: Beyang and I have deep respect for how Google builds software. Beyang interned there, and I’ve worked with Googlers on many open-source projects, including Chromium. What’s their secret? How are they so good? Ask any Google developer, and they’ll give much of the credit to… Read more

I have been fortunate in my career to work with some amazing founders and CEOs. Lloyd Tabb, Ben Porterfield, and Frank Bien at Looker are building the data platform that I have been craving since I started working in technology. Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza at Xamarin brought mobile development… Read more

What’s the best semantic and future-proof way to link to a piece of code? There’s been some interesting discussion about the right way , and it’s something we think about a lot at Sourcegraph as we build a better way for developers to discover and understand code. The consensus is that when you… Read more

(Note: if you want to skip the poetry and just check out the project, click here ) Begin code review . Too many lines, what to do? Hmm. LGTM? There’s a better way to review fast but ensure good code quality: One-click jump-to-def and hover over for docs. Save time and focus: Find refs globally… Read more

Today, we’re announcing a new edition of Sourcegraph that makes it even faster and easier to answer your everyday programming questions. If you code in Go, check it out now . If you use another language, sign up for the beta  — we’ll have news for you in the next couple of weeks! If you’re new… Read more

Hi, we’re Sourcegraph, the code search engine for Go and Java that lets you jump to def and find refs across all your code on GitHub . You may remember us from such developer conference liveblogs as Gophercon , FOSDEM, and dotGo . This year, we’re excited to announce we’re liveblogging GitHub… Read more

Ian Lee of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory talks about how LLNL is using, producing, and encouraging open source in government ( slides here ). Open source software and national security — two topics you don’t hear together too often. But there’s a lot of work in government agencies being… Read more

Engineering leaders from Bloomberg, Walmart Labs, Line, HP, IBM, and GitHub talk about open source inside enterprise (or “inner source”). We paraphrase the key points here. “InnerSource” is a new term for something that programmers have been doing for a long time. It’s about openness, transparency… Read more

GitHub’s invention — wasn’t invented invented in a vacuum. An evolution of great ideas from the past (like Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, etc.) GitHub didn’t invent the pull request. So what was the “big idea” for GitHub? It boils down to tools and people. Our key insight was that “developers are people… Read more

A concise recap of a “fireside chat” with Bret Taylor, co-creator of Google Maps, CTO of Friend Feed, CEO and co-founder of Quip. Q: First computer? A: Compact Portable, about the size of a suitcase. The lid flipped out of the keyboard. Had one game, which took up all disk space. Every time, he had… Read more

The federal government has embraced open source software. Earlier this year, they released the Federal Source Code Policy. When they released it back in March, they received some of the highest number of comments in history, thanks to GitHub. They received around 2,000 public comments. The federal… Read more

Lynn Langit, Cloud & Data Architect Director of Teaching Kids Programming ( slides ) She tells the story of Matt, a fifth grade history teacher who wrote some bacon-related code in Swift Lynn’s daughter has been coding since age 8 and taught Matt how to code. Matt now teaches Java to 8th graders… Read more

About a month ago, Sourcegraph released Checkup , an open-source , self-hosted uptime monitoring system written by Matt Holt . Following its release, a lot of people asked us how we were using Checkup at Sourcegraph. Today, we’re sharing our public status page , powered by Checkup, and laying… Read more

At Sourcegraph , we believe building for the future requires learning the lessons of the past. This is the first in a series of blog posts that cover historical anecdotes about software engineering that have inspired us as we build tools for the modern developer . We’re sharing these, because we… Read more

It’s like a CPU profiler, but for your productivity rather than your machine’s Do you ever think about how to make yourself a more productive programmer? At Sourcegraph , this is a question we think about every day. Our entire mission is to make your life as a developer easier and more efficient… Read more

Andrey Petrov ( @shazow ) spoke at the Sourcegraph office about lessons learned from his successes and “many failures” (his phrase) creating open-source projects. Andrey is author of the popular urllib3 library ( explore urllib3 on Sourcegraph ) and several other popular open-source… Read more

Today, Sourcegraph is excited to announce Checkup , a simple tool that lets you easily create distributed, self-hosted health checks and status pages. The Checkup status page works out of the box Monitoring uptime is a crucial part of running any web service. It lets you sleep well at night… Read more

From the very beginning at Sourcegraph , it’s been our goal to build a product so helpful that people could never go back to programming the old way. Sourcegraph helps developers discover and understand code, and to address such a complex need requires us to deeply understand our users. We’d like… Read more

Juan Benet ( @juanbenet ) spoke at the Sourcegraph Hacker Meetup about his project, “IPFS: The Permanent Web” ( slides and video ). IPFS is a bold attempt at evolving the Internet’s infrastructure. Here’s how Juan describes it to Sourcegraph : IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer file… Read more

This was originally a talk at Google I/O 2014 . Check out the slides and YouTube video . Thanks to the Go team for inviting us! What is Sourcegraph? Sourcegraph is a large-scale, multi-language code search and cross-reference engine that indexes hundreds of thousands of open-source… Read more

Today we’re excited to announce a step toward giving every team the power to build better software — the developer release of Sourcegraph , the fast, semantic code search and cross-reference engine. As developers, we always wanted a better way to discover and understand code: Why can’t your code… Read more

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could review, browse, and search code on GitHub as though you were in an IDE, with jump-to-definition, doc tooltips, and cross-references? We think so. That’s why we built the Sourcegraph Chrome extension for GitHub. Update (June 22, 2016): Added support for pull… Read more

We invited ten developers from leading tech startups around the Bay Area to join us for an “off-the-record” dinner to discuss the practice of code review (and what we want in an ideal code review process). Below is a wrap-up of the salient points from our dinner. Given the off-the-record nature of… Read more

There are many benefits to contributing to a popular open-source project like Docker: You earn recognition for improving a project used by many people. You get to collaborate with other amazingly smart people in the open-source community. You become a better programmer yourself through the process… Read more

Every developer knows they should instrument their app to identify perf bottlenecks, but it’s hard to actually get around to doing it — especially when you’re focused on shipping the latest and greatest features of your site. Today we’re announcing Appdash, an open-source multi-language distributed… Read more

Innovation fellow of the U.S. Digital Service, a.k.a. the “president’s startup.” His time as innovation fellow started in 2014, right around the time the conversation around law enforcement and Ferguson was coming to a tipping point. Big demand for better data around policing, especially with… Read more

Use Sourcegraph to discover and understand code better There’s a gold mine of code available to programmers, but choosing the right library and understanding how to use it can be tricky. We created Sourcegraph , a fast, semantic code search and cross-reference engine, to help developers like you… Read more

Building software is hard. We hosted a casual dinner here at the Sourcegraph office in downtown San Francisco for ten developers from leading startup software teams. At the dinner, the teams shared a behind-the-scenes look at their processes (and frustrations): testing, deployment, and code… Read more

Can a policy that banks use to combat insider fraud also make tech companies produce better products and happier employees? Sure. At Sourcegraph , our mandatory vacation policy requires everyone to completely disconnect from work for at least 2 weeks each year — no exceptions. Photo credit… Read more

Do you use the best tools money can buy? We ask ourselves that a lot at Sourcegraph . It’s one of the questions in The Joel Test , Joel Spolsky’s classic 12-question benchmark of your team’s software engineering practices. Since he published the test in 2000, the “best tools money can buy” have… Read more