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My GitHub is four letters which is quite convenient. Recently a friend and I ran a script on the GitHub API to find the shortest available names and found that
by MH15 6y ago
My GitHub is four letters which is quite convenient. Recently a friend and I ran a script on the GitHub API to find the shortest available names and found that there are no three letter names and very few four letter names remaining.
Of course I got rate limited in this, as you can probably imagine given the factorial complexity of checking every name.
- Something1234 6y agoThe question is if any of those short accounts actually have anything interesting as contributions or just name squatting.
- skeoh 6y agoAnecdotally: I have a 2 character GitHub user (https://github.com/j- https://github.com/j-) and I like to think I do more than name squat. I missed out on the 1 character user (https://github.com/j https://github.com/j) by only a matter of weeks!
- mosen 6y agoI managed to snag a 3-letter one, so far it’s only really useful for manually adding origins...
- eru 6y ago> Of course I got rate limited in this, as you can probably imagine given the factorial complexity of checking every name. I suspect it's only exponential. Or does more of unicode open up as you increase the length?