Song of GitHub

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/

by goddabuzz • 13 years ago

197 46 13 years ago

song-of-github.herokuapp.com

basicallydan• 13 years ago

This is absolutely brilliant, well done.

varunrau• 13 years ago

I love it. So simple. So creative!

seleucia• 13 years ago

Congratulations, Just a musician can think that :)

deanclatworthy2• 13 years ago

The song of bootstrap: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=mdo

Very nice :)

xentronium2• 13 years ago

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=michaelklishin another good one

deanclatworthy2• 13 years ago

I would suggest that for those people who don't contribute quite as often as big contributors, to change the pace inbetween large gaps so the song isn't just a note followed by 30s of nothing. But this is great!

m4tthumphrey• 13 years ago

This. I thought my headphones weren't working then suddenly a random note on its own!

xentronium2• 13 years ago

This is not a bug! Contribute more! :)

entropy_• 13 years ago

At least the gap at the beginning should be shortened. As that's not something you have any control over now.

sdoering• 13 years ago

Great idea, great thing to have fun with. And a great motivation, to contribute more in the future... ;-)

irok• 13 years ago

TJ's song http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=visionmedia

afshinmeh2• 13 years ago

LOL!

lpinca• 13 years ago

Cool idea!

murftown• 13 years ago

Nice, some MIDI.js magic! I like.

leftnode• 13 years ago

This is great, I love small hacks like these!

I would love to be able to authorize it with my Github account so it can read my contributions to my private repository. All around great work.

stevelaz• 13 years ago

I second that :)

ajacksified4• 13 years ago

Great idea; I've heard it a few times. I actually built this against an undocumented API call; if you watch the network tab when you open up GitHub, it makes an ajax request for JSON. I replicated that request with https.get on the server, then dump that json out on the page (to get around CORS problems.)

I think they're using sessions to determine if you're logged in / authenticated; so I'd need to either see if I can just pass in an oauth token and see what happens, wait for them to build an API around it, or just do the work of combing the repositories and build the data manually.

RyanMcGreal4• 13 years ago

A lament: https://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=aaronsw

How fitting that it ends on a discordant note.

Mahn3• 13 years ago

Doesn't seem to work anymore, I guess the autor removed it?

RyanMcGreal4• 13 years ago

I just tried it again - it's working for me.

glitchdout2• 13 years ago

It works if you use http instead of https. I don't know why RyanMcGreal linked it that way. jQuery isn't getting loaded over https so that's why it's not working.

Here's the correct link: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=aaronsw

Mahn3• 13 years ago

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=antirez <- best one I heard so far :-) this thing is fun.

Mahn3• 13 years ago

Also, it's just me or does MIDI.js have the potential to lead the renaissance of midi music on the internet? I had almost forgotten midi files existed if it weren't for this lib.

pavel_lishin• 13 years ago

It's going to lead to someone writing a MIDIBlock extension for Chrome, which I will happily install alongside FlashBlock and AdBlock.

whage• 13 years ago

This is the best thing I've seen on the web in 2013 so far. Amazing amazing job

cpfohl• 13 years ago

Mine was disappointing, but here's a pretty one:

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=jashkenas

damncabbage• 13 years ago

This is pretty good: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=radar

josebalius• 13 years ago

It doesn't seem to work on chrome canary in OSX Lion.

DanKnox• 13 years ago

Best one yet by far... http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=sferik

sunils34• 13 years ago

The song of linux. http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=torvalds

wyuenho• 13 years ago

I like how mind sounds. Sounds like a lone explorer searching for programming nirvana for a year, got disappointed for a little bit, and then eventually rediscovered the joy of programming again.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=wyuenho

This is really really nicely done. Thanks for this. This made my day.

joeblau• 13 years ago

LOL, my song is the saddest song I've ever heard. It sounds like the score to a point a play where the protagonist loses everything.

ajacksified4• 13 years ago

Author here. Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues.

This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests from some really talented developers; rpflorence, phuu, and everyone else with issues and pull requests. This is what makes open source so cool. https://github.com/ajacksified/song-of-github/contributors

Also, Midi.js is really fun to play with. http://mudcu.be/midi-js/

Obligatory song link: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ajacksified

afshinmeh2• 13 years ago

What a cool idea, awesome!

charonn0• 13 years ago

Melancholy; melodic but listless; in turns sporadic and frenetic; all too brief, and all too incomplete.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=charonn0

yayitswei• 13 years ago

Great idea! Try using a pentatonic scale, or sharp the 4th (F) to avoid some dissonance.

ajacksified4• 13 years ago

Oh, good idea. I may add in the ability to select scale (or select it based on frequency of contributions / username checksum or something).

chinchang• 13 years ago

Awesome stuff man! mine is very boring: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=chinchang :P

burkemw3• 13 years ago

My public github is pretty sad, so I wired this up for GitHub Enterprise (https://github.com/burkemw3/song-of-github) and like my song much better now.

fmax30• 13 years ago

Woah , the music generated is beautiful looks like some sort of computational creativity. Trovalds's song is depressing , http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=torvalds

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