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It's a pure dice-rolling addiction. Let me share a personal story: For the last 3.5 years, every night before bed, I would browse https://www.gitlogs.com http
by gavinray 6y ago
It's a pure dice-rolling addiction.
Let me share a personal story:
For the last 3.5 years, every night before bed, I would browse https://www.gitlogs.com https://www.gitlogs.com, a site that had it's own algorithm for ranking top-trending Github repos for the day (it is much better than Github Trends, don't ask how).
It was my nightly ritual, and my favorite part of the day. Sometimes I would find 3-5 REALLY fucking awesome projects, or one that was so useful it changed my life as a developer, in one night.
I never missed a night.
For the last month or two it's been flaky (the API has been hosted as a free Glitch project this whole time LOL) and finally, the backend died. So it's gone forever. RIP friend, I have a void in my soul now.
But while it was alive, it was a daily dice roll that was incredibly exhilarating. And that's the addiction, and why I sink so much time into HN too.
- the_pwner224 6y agoThis is the exact same excuse I make for myself whenever I get a thought that I might be spending too much time on HN: all the interesting and actually useful stuff I've found here makes the time spend worth it. Right?
- travmatt 6y agoOff-topic, but I wish GitHub had more functionality with starring repos. That and search seem such neglected parts of their platform.
- rom16384 6y agoI often use http://www.yasiv.com/github/ http://www.yasiv.com/github/ a tool to find related repos using information about shared number of stars to calculate similarity index between two projects. Github: https://github.com/anvaka/gazer https://github.com/anvaka/gazer