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Roberto Tyley

Roberto Tyley is the author of the BFG Repo-Cleaner (a faster, simpler alternative to git-filter-branch), Agit (the first Git client for Android devices) and the packager of SpongyCastle (an Android repackage of the crypto package BouncyCastle), a software developer at The Guardian, and contributor to various open-source projects. He's worked at GitHub, 'invented' animated diffs, and loves explaining things.

October 2019

  • Rally for solidarity with the women who have been victims of violence in Bucharest<br>epa07934656 A Romanian woman beats a drum while shouting feminist slogans during a solidarity march with the women who have been victims of violence, in Bucharest, 19 October 2019. Up to one thousand people attended the march entitled ‘Together for Women’s Safety’ in Bucharest showing their solidarity with the women who have been victims of violence. The event was held under the slogan ‘Believe us’ and took place simultaneously in the Romanian cities of Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi. In Romania, during the first six months of 2019, there were 11,896 crimes in the field of domestic violence, according to organizers. EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT

    Engineering blog
    Has Mary Wollstonecraft's CPU spiked?

    For seriously technical reasons, we needed several thousand feminists - seriously technical reasons, and simply making a small improvement to inclusivity on our team

September 2019

  • John Oliver

    Going to see standup comedy? Don't fear the front row!

    Sitting near a performer puts you in the firing line – but it also makes you an invaluable part of any comedy show

December 2016

  • Montage of mirror building

    Engineering blog
    Mirrors, lights, sawdust, lasers

    This developer had never built anything from wood before, but his bedroom was a bit dark - so he built a full-length sparkly portrait mirror with LED lighting and a laser range finder.

July 2016

  • The stage of Git Merge 2016

    Engineering blog
    Git Merge 2016

    A belated report back on the GitMerge 2016 conference, held over two days in April.

September 2015

  • Cows in a field in the Lake District

    Engineering blog
    Conference report: Scala World 2015

    Reporting live from the Scala World 2015 conference in Penrith

February 2015

  • Prout spans the continuous delivery pipeline

    Engineering blog
    Prout: is your pull request out?

    Developers: How do you know your pull request is on production?

May 2014

  • Engineering blog
    Git 2.0 released - defaults to 'better'

    We're big fans of Git here at the Guardian, using it as our primary version control system - can you believe we were once accused of hyperbole for calling Git "...the most important thing Linus Torvalds has ever done"?

April 2014

  • Guess Who? Demystifying GitHub organisation membership

    Engineering blog
    How the Guardian uses GitHub to audit GitHub

    How the Guardian wrote gu:who, an automated bot to manage GitHub organisation membership

July 2011

  • Agit - Android Git Client

    Engineering blog
    Agit – a Git client for Android

    Roberto Tyley describes the process of writing a new kind of Android app for developers

December 2010

  • Redirection

    Engineering blog
    The everlasting permalink

    Roberto Tyley: Our aim at the Guardian is to have permanent, predictable URLs for all our content – our comment redirector takes the idea a little further, preserving our comment links even after we've migrated commenting platforms

July 2010

  • Inside the Guardian
    Comment on this article and help us with our testing

    We’re making some changes to commenting and prior to rolling these out across the Guardian we’re testing the new configuration on this post. This enables us to verify that we’ve got the setup right and helps keep disruption to a minimum

November 2009

  • Inside the Guardian
    Comments Included

    Farewell (we hope) to the barber's pole - a more technical explanation about how comments on the Guardian site are now sewn straight into the page

March 2009

  • Inside the Guardian
    Sharing, Contributing... and Caching

    Roberto Tyley: The Guardian is serious about engaging with the wider technology community - while we work hard to open out our data to the world at large, we also participate by speaking at conferences, sponsoring events, and sometimes in the simplest way of all; contributing code and fixes for the Open Source software that we use.

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