Github activity stream

by kilovoltaire • 14 years ago

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evoxed• 14 years ago

Gee, I never knew that gist was being used to spam live-tv stream blogspot links. I got my hopes up that someone had a script that would automagically connect me to the live baseball game of my choosing... ah well, what was I thinking.

Otherwise it's fun to watch, and a surprising amount are actually interesting/relevant.

megavoltaire3• 14 years ago

Yeah I also hadn't realized that there was spam on github, but you notice it quite often here.

zalew2• 14 years ago

a bit more useful than the dashboard.

jvoorhis• 14 years ago

More entertaining than the dashboard by far, but I don't get much utility from either.

zalew2• 14 years ago

this one doesn't pretend to be useful

f055• 14 years ago

I prefer gitlive.com

Shank2• 14 years ago

I'd like it more if it had a backlog. Putting that widget on any website is difficult because the likelihood that someone will be there long enough for a commit is fairly low.

krobertson• 14 years ago

What is it based on? Global activity? I am seeing 99% "Eclipse Platform project repository".

megavoltaire3• 14 years ago

haha yeah I just saw that as well — apparently eclipse just uploaded several years' worth of tags.

it's a very simple wrapper around the github events api: https://api.github.com/events (or in the code at https://github.com/hrldcpr/githubbub/blob/master/githubbub.j...)

in particular, it shows the main event types that have substantial text content in them, so mostly commits and comments.

daemianmack• 14 years ago

Surprisingly entertaining -- thanks! It'd be nice if the the popup messages had a force field around them, so they stayed readable for as long as possible.

megavoltaire3• 14 years ago

Glad you like it!

That's a good idea. It's definitely not using space very optimally as it is, though it's meant to feel like a busy "hubbub" / very active, so that's somewhat intentional.

lordlarm• 14 years ago

It does not work in Opera.

Shank2• 14 years ago

I wish commits were collapsed into one blob, there are times where 9-10 of the same face pop up with various commit logs. Slightly annoying.

phaedrus• 14 years ago

This is great. But it would be nicer if the algorithm to randomly place the new messages would attempt to not obscure the most recent ones; sometimes I was trying to read a really interesting message and it got covered up before I finished reading.

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