Introducing Octokit(github.com) |
Introducing Octokit(github.com) |
It looks left the left suit is modeled after the God Gundam (Burning Gundam in the US) in G Gundam.
The right suit seems to be the Abyss Gundam in Gundam SEED Destiny.
IIRC I had the same frustration the last time I attempted to use Octokit (~5 months ago). GitHub maintaining it directly may well alleviate the pain points I experienced. It would help, for instance, to have the wrapper documentation run parallel with that of the REST API itself.
In Firefox 21 on Windows 7, they're decidedly low resolution, but I open them directly [1] they look fine. They render fine in Chrome.
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Samurai-Pizza-...
I feel like this is something they could offer in the future though as many IDEs automatically build your environment when a new project is initialized. Assuming you use github as your IDE (i.e. not really using any IDE) project initialization might make sense.
Your sword? Your shield? The cute little octocat is now a scowling angry warrior robot?
I must be old and out of touch: I don't understand the appeal of this violent imagery. I thought GitHub was about working together, helping each other out, not slaying your foes.
I like the old octocat and octokitten better:
http://assets.github.com/images/modules/dashboard/bootcamp/o...
I understand that this stuff is all in fun and shouldn't be taken literally, I just had a rather negative gut reaction to the sword and shield and scowling. Maybe it's useful for people to know that this kind of thing will bring up negative reactions in some people. Or maybe not.
[1] https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/b...
I seriously doubt the reference is meant to be violent.
But... Not meant to be violent? Even if the robocats themselves are not meant to be violent, how could the introductory language about "your sword" and "your shield" be interpreted as anything but violent?
The only time I can imagine needing a sword and shield would be in a rather violent situation. Quite the opposite of the experience one might hope to have on GitHub.
Edit/addendum: The Ruby version is fine and I'm glad they've made it the official library.
I am disappoint
I'm not sure all of those can be set up as CocoaPod dependencies though.
https://github.com/blog/1517-introducing-octokit
and on the project page:
"Is Cocoa your sword? Let this kit be your shield."
Look, I don't mean to read too much into any of this. I just found it a bit unpleasant, that was all. If that observation is useful for anyone, great, if not, my apology for the distraction.