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Git-achievements was a lot of fun to make. Lots of laughs coming up with the various "achievements" you get to unlock with various people on #startups. For th
by icefox 16y ago
Git-achievements was a lot of fun to make. Lots of laughs coming up with the various "achievements" you get to unlock with various people on #startups. For the curious I wrote up a blog post on it when I first put it up: http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2010/03/git-achievements.html http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2010/03/git-achievements....
The unexpected has to be how useful it has been in showing off how easy it is to add commands to git, getting a laugh when giving presentations on learning Git and how every few weeks someone tells me about it.
Big thanks to the github guys for gh-pages. It is really a hidden killer feature of github. Rather than a master branch there is only a gh-pages branch which is what makes publishing achievements to easy for anyone to do. It makes dumping up little js apps/tests/examples in a git repo online really easy such as these other two repos:
http://github.com/icefox/js_email_link_hack http://github.com/icefox/js_email_link_hack
http://github.com/icefox/javascript_genetic_algorithm http://github.com/icefox/javascript_genetic_algorithm