Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

mk270 12 years ago |

I always like to take the opportunity to plug my Chrome plugin which makes your Github landing page play Conway's game of life: https://github.com/mk270/life-contributions

taspeotis 12 years ago |

    Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page (github.com)
    6 points by skazhy 1 hour ago | flag | cached | share | 4 comments

Add art to your GitHub profile page (May 2013) [1]

[1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

mkohlmyr 12 years ago |

Alternatively, you could just.. You know.. Actually commit enough work to impress people...

icebraining 12 years ago | |

Who says the point is impressing people?

kmfrk 12 years ago | |

... or ... both. :)

pearjuice 12 years ago |

Later: click here to flag this activity graph as fake

ozh 12 years ago |

Or just do it with a few daily commits, no cheat -- https://github.com/contributions

Same uselessness but, man, the anticipation ;)

joshguthrie 12 years ago |

Finally! The time has come for me to write my newest melody using http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/ !

zapt02 12 years ago |

Not sure if this morally ok, because I assume it uses git timestamps to trick the activity graph.

Argorak 12 years ago | |

Let's put it another way: it shows very nicely that the activity graph is a very nice plaything, but not to be trusted in any way.

icebraining 12 years ago | |

Why would it be morally not ok to trick the activity graph and/or create fake git timestamps?

infinity0 12 years ago | |

github activity discounts commits to non-master branches anyway, which is pretty immoral from my point of view.

rfergie 12 years ago | | |

Immoral seems to be a bit of a strong word here. But then I don't use git/github much.

Can you explain?

infinity0 12 years ago | | |

The parent post mentioned "moral", I was just making the point not to take online infographics too seriously - there are inaccuracies in both directions.

shocks 12 years ago | | |

It'll display correctly once you merge your non-master branches down.

infinity0 12 years ago | | |

doesn't seem to be working for me.

lparry 12 years ago | | |

complete stab in the dark here, but perhaps however you're getting your work onto master is rewriting timestamps (NFI if the graph goes off authored or commited dates).

Maybe try 'git checkout master && git merge --no-ff feature-branch' and see if that helps

lcedp 12 years ago | |

Hacking things is not morally ok?

manojlds 12 years ago | | |

Just a "script kiddie" in this case if you use it.