Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map

https://github.com/ben174/git-draw

by ben174 • 11 years ago

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gruez• 11 years ago

Obligatory mention: https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar

throwaway999888• 11 years ago

Finally a use for the GitHub heatmap.

navls• 11 years ago

I'm a fan. It motivates me to stay active with open source even when my work does not directly involve open source coding.

siddharthgoel88• 11 years ago

But now it won't, it seems :(

kqr2• 11 years ago

Also a useful indicator of whether or not a user is likely to respond to PRs or issues even if the project you're looking at itself is a low-traffic project.

cpayne• 11 years ago

That's very clever - but I can't keep thinking that you would go to hell for using it...

mathgeek• 11 years ago

This definitely falls under "really cool and completely pointless." One of the most important technology categories. :)

jammaloo• 11 years ago

I had a much less sophisticated go with the Punch Card chart, a few years back.

Example Chart: https://github.com/jammaloo/PunchCardChart/graphs/punch-card

Repo: https://github.com/jammaloo/PunchCardChart

volaski2• 11 years ago

All we need now is a beatmaker chrome extension to feed this into and create a tune.

outputchannel• 11 years ago

You could use something like this: https://alemangui.github.io/Tonalhub/

volaski2• 11 years ago

haha this is awesome!

pearjuice• 11 years ago

That heat map used to be a novel indicator of a user their activity. Now it just being abused these days.

eric001• 11 years ago

*of their public activity.

noobie• 11 years ago

*of a user's activity

Show HN: Git Draw allows you to draw pictures directly into your GitHub heat map

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