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Commit logs from last night

113 points by instakill 15y ago

Sodaware 15y ago
Maybe combine this with LOC to find swears per line, or include the language for find which ones cause the most swears. Maybe leaderboards too (like CurseBird) to find the sweariest projects & developers.
kilian 15y ago
This is funny, but I'm missing a whole lot of context. Anyone want to fill me (us?) in? :)
- etherealG 15y ago
  yes please. me too.
  - etherealG 15y ago
    managed to find this: https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night
  - acavailhez 15y ago
    It seems to be late commits on public githubs account. Maybe filtered by curse word. The default picture on the avatars seems to be the little cute octopus thing of github.
    - pyre 15y ago
      Other filter words appear to be 'wow' and 'balls'
    - dzuc 15y ago
      It makes a call to this thing: http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=interesting http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=interesting http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ if you want the complete list of offenders
- steve-howard 15y ago
  It's a play on Texts from Last Night, another site with regrettable communications. Every post on TFLN has comments alleging that it's fake. ;)
- zachc 15y ago
  This was made by Abe Stanway at the most recent Penn Apps hackathon. You can see a video of his presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY Checkout the other projects, including mine here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PennApps2011#p/u http://www.youtube.com/user/PennApps2011#p/u
veyron 15y ago
Is there a way to submit logs (like how texts from last night does it)? There are a lot of amusing 4-am svn commit messages in my tree
- etherealG 15y ago
  https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob/master/view-logs.php https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob... that reveals this page as a way to add your repo to the logs: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/submit.php http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/submit.php
  - etherealG 15y ago
    my bad, I think that was intended but never finished. the bit in that file gets the latest stuff on github irrelevant of the submitted repository.
- aba_sababa 15y ago
  alright, emergency hacking done! you can now add your username to be scraped :)
timf 15y ago
Swearing doesn't bother me, but lack of content does. Commit logs help you find things later and help you communicate what happened without the other person looking at the diff directly. Consider the difference between "fuck yeah dawg" and "fuck yeah, got the XYZ widget prototype working". </buzzkill>
- aespinoza 15y ago
  I agree commit Logs are extremely useful when they tell you what was it purpose. this kind of commit logs are useless for history tracking.
- ajross 15y ago
  Even the latter is pretty awful. "Got XYZ working" tells you nothing about the bug that was fixed, nor why the broken feature was in the branch in the first place. People who work with source control would do really well to watch how the kernel community approaches this. Commits add new features or fix bugs. They don't add broken crap to the mainline. You can version that if you want, but do it on your own branch and don't pollute the community's history with it.
  - timf 15y ago
    I agree with you, but at least it's something. We try to couple things with bugs as much as possible (and are never moved to swear).
- kellishaver 15y ago
  I certainly agree, but I think we've probably all been there. If I'm working on code that there's even a chance someone else will touch in a professional setting (or that will be distributed, i.e. open source apps), I try to make my commit logs thorough, informative, and free of vulgarity. However, I have to admit that on personal projects or projects with friends - and sometimes employers who happen to be friends - if it's 2am and I've spent the past 3hrs fighting ridiculous bugs, they might sink to the level of "I hate IE" and "stopped the thing from doing stuff."
frou_dh 15y ago
hurr i'm swearing on the job. I'm crazy, me
mcknz 15y ago
newb commit msg: <nocomment> uber commit msg: fuck
zefhous 15y ago
Why are we celebrating irresponsible commit messages? Are people finding these to be that funny in the first place? Here's a 5 minute talk from this year's Rocky Mountain Ruby conference that explains why good commit messages are important: http://confreaks.net/videos/744-rockymtnruby2011-lightning-talk-do-your-commit-messages-suck http://confreaks.net/videos/744-rockymtnruby2011-lightning-t...
- joblessjunkie 15y ago
  This isn't so much a celebration as a public shaming. We all know you're not supposed to be "that guy", right? These commits aren't "funny" in the sense that they're clever, but it can be consoling to recognize the frustration that leads to such commits. I don't condone it, but I must admit there have been some late nights when the website just wouldn't stay the *@#$& up and I have done some things I'm not proud of....
- decklin 15y ago
  To be fair, I don't the the point of Texts From Last Night (which this is a parody of/homage to) is "celebrating" ill-considered drunken text messages. For whatever reason, humans find it entertaining to watch other humans do stupid things.
aba_sababa 15y ago
I developed it at PennApps a couple weeks ago. I'll be adding GitHub authentication soon, so you can add all your logs to the site. Was kind of hoping it didn't make HN until then :)
- instakill 15y ago
  Whoops. Sorry ;)
eekfuh 15y ago
API? I want to add my own stuff ;)
damncabbage 15y ago
In a similar (but context-free) vein: http://whatthecommit.com/ http://whatthecommit.com/
JoshTriplett 15y ago
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/04/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-coder-part-3.html http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/04/one-day-i...
tomasienrbc 15y ago
As the non-technical co-founder of a tech startup, commit comments are consistently the most enjoyable part of my job. Reading things like "tell me your secrets!" or "I think I destroyed the entire database" followed by "nope, still there" always make me laugh.
acpmasquerade 15y ago
To much of offence in the languages. - crap.

113 points by instakill 15y ago

Maybe combine this with LOC to find swears per line, or include the language for find which ones cause the most swears. Maybe leaderboards too (like CurseBird) to find the sweariest projects & developers.

kilian 15y ago

This is funny, but I'm missing a whole lot of context. Anyone want to fill me (us?) in? :)

etherealG 15y ago
yes please. me too.
- etherealG 15y ago
  managed to find this: https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night
- acavailhez 15y ago
  It seems to be late commits on public githubs account. Maybe filtered by curse word. The default picture on the avatars seems to be the little cute octopus thing of github.
  - pyre 15y ago
    Other filter words appear to be 'wow' and 'balls'
  - dzuc 15y ago
    It makes a call to this thing: http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=interesting http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=interesting http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ http://fffff.at/googles-official-list-of-bad-words/ if you want the complete list of offenders
steve-howard 15y ago
It's a play on Texts from Last Night, another site with regrettable communications. Every post on TFLN has comments alleging that it's fake. ;)
zachc 15y ago
This was made by Abe Stanway at the most recent Penn Apps hackathon. You can see a video of his presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIf9dyxMxY Checkout the other projects, including mine here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PennApps2011#p/u http://www.youtube.com/user/PennApps2011#p/u

veyron 15y ago

Is there a way to submit logs (like how texts from last night does it)? There are a lot of amusing 4-am svn commit messages in my tree

etherealG 15y ago
https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob/master/view-logs.php https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob... that reveals this page as a way to add your repo to the logs: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/submit.php http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/submit.php
- etherealG 15y ago
  my bad, I think that was intended but never finished. the bit in that file gets the latest stuff on github irrelevant of the submitted repository.
aba_sababa 15y ago
alright, emergency hacking done! you can now add your username to be scraped :)

timf 15y ago

Swearing doesn't bother me, but lack of content does. Commit logs help you find things later and help you communicate what happened without the other person looking at the diff directly. Consider the difference between "fuck yeah dawg" and "fuck yeah, got the XYZ widget prototype working". </buzzkill>

aespinoza 15y ago
I agree commit Logs are extremely useful when they tell you what was it purpose. this kind of commit logs are useless for history tracking.
ajross 15y ago
Even the latter is pretty awful. "Got XYZ working" tells you nothing about the bug that was fixed, nor why the broken feature was in the branch in the first place. People who work with source control would do really well to watch how the kernel community approaches this. Commits add new features or fix bugs. They don't add broken crap to the mainline. You can version that if you want, but do it on your own branch and don't pollute the community's history with it.
- timf 15y ago
  I agree with you, but at least it's something. We try to couple things with bugs as much as possible (and are never moved to swear).
kellishaver 15y ago
I certainly agree, but I think we've probably all been there. If I'm working on code that there's even a chance someone else will touch in a professional setting (or that will be distributed, i.e. open source apps), I try to make my commit logs thorough, informative, and free of vulgarity. However, I have to admit that on personal projects or projects with friends - and sometimes employers who happen to be friends - if it's 2am and I've spent the past 3hrs fighting ridiculous bugs, they might sink to the level of "I hate IE" and "stopped the thing from doing stuff."

frou_dh 15y ago

hurr i'm swearing on the job. I'm crazy, me

mcknz 15y ago

newb commit msg: <nocomment> uber commit msg: fuck

zefhous 15y ago

Why are we celebrating irresponsible commit messages? Are people finding these to be that funny in the first place? Here's a 5 minute talk from this year's Rocky Mountain Ruby conference that explains why good commit messages are important: http://confreaks.net/videos/744-rockymtnruby2011-lightning-talk-do-your-commit-messages-suck http://confreaks.net/videos/744-rockymtnruby2011-lightning-t...

joblessjunkie 15y ago
This isn't so much a celebration as a public shaming. We all know you're not supposed to be "that guy", right? These commits aren't "funny" in the sense that they're clever, but it can be consoling to recognize the frustration that leads to such commits. I don't condone it, but I must admit there have been some late nights when the website just wouldn't stay the *@#$& up and I have done some things I'm not proud of....
decklin 15y ago
To be fair, I don't the the point of Texts From Last Night (which this is a parody of/homage to) is "celebrating" ill-considered drunken text messages. For whatever reason, humans find it entertaining to watch other humans do stupid things.

aba_sababa 15y ago

I developed it at PennApps a couple weeks ago. I'll be adding GitHub authentication soon, so you can add all your logs to the site. Was kind of hoping it didn't make HN until then :)

instakill 15y ago
Whoops. Sorry ;)

eekfuh 15y ago

API? I want to add my own stuff ;)

damncabbage 15y ago

In a similar (but context-free) vein: http://whatthecommit.com/ http://whatthecommit.com/

JoshTriplett 15y ago

http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/04/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-coder-part-3.html http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/04/one-day-i...

tomasienrbc 15y ago

As the non-technical co-founder of a tech startup, commit comments are consistently the most enjoyable part of my job. Reading things like "tell me your secrets!" or "I think I destroyed the entire database" followed by "nope, still there" always make me laugh.

acpmasquerade 15y ago

To much of offence in the languages. - crap.