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Not to mention this signal is easily gamed. I know many people who light up their Github activity graph with one line commits to READMEs or codestyle changes so

Not to mention this signal is easily gamed. I know many people who light up their Github activity graph with one line commits to READMEs or codestyle changes somewhere.

nullsense 6y ago
Someone made a product called GitHub Gardener that does this for you.
- Balgair 6y ago
  https://www.gitgardener.com/ https://www.gitgardener.com/ $10/mo isn't bad for a 'professional' service. Basic manicures are ~$20 and last 7-10 days; they are common with in-person sales and marketing jobs.
- juped 6y ago
  lol, clever. I just put up a pre- and post- dated repository with commits dated from 1970 to 2038, which should keep me set until Github dies.
  - jjeaff 6y ago
    How does that work? GitHub counts the activity based on the post dates?
    - juped 6y ago
      git commits have two dates, an author date and a committer date; the github profile page thingy is based on the author date of commits. just set it to whatever
      - jjeaff 6y ago
        I see. Well I think that makes your option even more clever.
        juped 6y ago
        The cleverness isn't the service, but charging people money for it. Wish I'd thought of that!
- jjeaff 6y ago
  I bet there are some places you can just purchase pre-curated GitHub accounts.