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Ask HN: What's your greatest achievement on GitHub?

What accomplishments are you really proud of on GitHub? Build a great project, contribute to a well-known project? How do you show off your accomplishments? Point to link/app if possible

eternalban 3y ago
heads up: OP has Vaunt.dev in their profile and that property is owned by Kochava Inc. whose website the trustworthy uBlock Origin insists is a nasty place to visit and one should not do so.
- version_five 3y ago
  Also, from that site: Developers can track their progress and showcase their accomplishments, while organizations can cultivate a thriving developer community around their projects. Organizations define how developers are recognized for their contributions.
- scheng_kochava 3y ago
  Vaunt is an initiative of Kochava Studios, the research and development arm of Kochava, Inc. Vaunt helps advance the open-source community by creating a recognition platform. It is used internally on a number of Kochava’s repositories to highlight their engineers. Vaunt leverage existing repository data (i.e git commits, pull request etc..) to recognize contributions from developers. Vaunt is not related to Kochava's enterprise solutions.
codetrotter 3y ago
My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well. The prime example of this is my Pgen project. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases. A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like: oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice Pgen is written in Rust. Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very small but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day. I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful because for a long time I sometimes found it difficult to quickly identify which terminal is logged into which host when I have many terminals open some of which are connected to ssh. Having the hostname in the prompt is nice and all but when you have a handful of terminals or more it’s not very distinct. Coloured emojis take small space and make each host distinct. Vertical spacing between each command invocation makes it more comfortable to read scroll back and more quick to scan.

What accomplishments are you really proud of on GitHub? Build a great project, contribute to a well-known project? How do you show off your accomplishments? Point to link/app if possible

eternalban 3y ago

heads up: OP has Vaunt.dev in their profile and that property is owned by Kochava Inc. whose website the trustworthy uBlock Origin insists is a nasty place to visit and one should not do so.

version_five 3y ago
Also, from that site: Developers can track their progress and showcase their accomplishments, while organizations can cultivate a thriving developer community around their projects. Organizations define how developers are recognized for their contributions.
scheng_kochava 3y ago
Vaunt is an initiative of Kochava Studios, the research and development arm of Kochava, Inc. Vaunt helps advance the open-source community by creating a recognition platform. It is used internally on a number of Kochava’s repositories to highlight their engineers. Vaunt leverage existing repository data (i.e git commits, pull request etc..) to recognize contributions from developers. Vaunt is not related to Kochava's enterprise solutions.

codetrotter 3y ago

My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well. The prime example of this is my Pgen project. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases. A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like: oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice Pgen is written in Rust. Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very small but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day. I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful because for a long time I sometimes found it difficult to quickly identify which terminal is logged into which host when I have many terminals open some of which are connected to ssh. Having the hostname in the prompt is nice and all but when you have a handful of terminals or more it’s not very distinct. Coloured emojis take small space and make each host distinct. Vertical spacing between each command invocation makes it more comfortable to read scroll back and more quick to scan.