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I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.

by est 3y ago

QuiDortDine 3y ago
How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!
- labster 3y ago
  There are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
  - hawaiianbrah 3y ago
    Not to mention all the one- and two-letter combinations!
    - hinkley 3y ago
      Well there’s about 1/26th as many of those.
  - 6510 3y ago
    I have a file by each of those names inwhich each bit represents one article that either has the string or not (1 or 0) I'm sure someone wanted to know that.
  - w-m 3y ago
    There are some more three-character user names if you count dashes and digits, which are also allowed in GitHub usernames. Although I think the first one has to be a letter of the alphabet.
- jer0me 3y ago
  Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png https://github.com/est.png redirects to)
  - plugin-baby 3y ago
    That shows up as a picture of a worm for me. Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4
    - sakjur 3y ago
      https://api.github.com/users/est https://api.github.com/users/est might be easier to read for getting the ID.
  - lopis 3y ago
    My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username
    - stavros 3y ago
      Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first). EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.
      - djbusby 3y ago
        Name recycle. For a while I had a username monitoring tool. Names drop, just like domains.
        stavros 3y ago
        Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.
        bityard 3y ago
        It will be an accident, that much is certain.
    - layer8 3y ago
      Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.
- tzs 3y ago
  I got tzs and based on the tzs.png redirect URL trick from another comment I was number 322633.
- bityard 3y ago
  I have a two-letter github username and I wasn't even an early adopter. I only bothered creating an account when it was clear that Github was more than a fad and a few of the projects I contributed to moved there. I tried just my initials and it worked. Having a two-letter username is less exciting than simply a common word or name, though. Once in a while I get mentioned by accident in issues, or added to some organization. Twice I have had someone beg me to give it to them under the rationalization that it was "really cool" and I wasn't really "doing anything" with it... EDIT: I just looked up my ID and apparently none of the first half-million people to sign up for a github account tried to brute-force the small-username space. EDIT2: There are a few single-letter usernames with IDs in the millions, so I wonder if those are somehow "kept in reserve" by github admins and given out to friends or what's the story there.

I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.

by est 3y ago

I sometimes get tagged on Github as a timezone.

QuiDortDine 3y ago

How did you even get that username? Short ones go so fast, you must have been in the first 1000 users!

labster 3y ago
There are 17576 three-letter combinations in the English alphabet.
- hawaiianbrah 3y ago
  Not to mention all the one- and two-letter combinations!
  - hinkley 3y ago
    Well there’s about 1/26th as many of those.
- 6510 3y ago
  I have a file by each of those names inwhich each bit represents one article that either has the string or not (1 or 0) I'm sure someone wanted to know that.
- w-m 3y ago
  There are some more three-character user names if you count dashes and digits, which are also allowed in GitHub usernames. Although I think the first one has to be a letter of the alphabet.
jer0me 3y ago
Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png https://github.com/est.png redirects to)
- plugin-baby 3y ago
  That shows up as a picture of a worm for me. Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4
  - sakjur 3y ago
    https://api.github.com/users/est https://api.github.com/users/est might be easier to read for getting the ID.
- lopis 3y ago
  My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username
  - stavros 3y ago
    Mine is 23000ish and I still couldn't get "Stavros" (a friend got it first). EDIT: Wait, how? His ID is 500k or so. Hmm.
    - djbusby 3y ago
      Name recycle. For a while I had a username monitoring tool. Names drop, just like domains.
      - stavros 3y ago
        Hmm, I'll need to make sure that GitHub's Stavros... retires, then.
        bityard 3y ago
        It will be an accident, that much is certain.
  - layer8 3y ago
    Same for #7,xxx,xxx. The space grows exponentially with the number of letters though.
tzs 3y ago
I got tzs and based on the tzs.png redirect URL trick from another comment I was number 322633.
bityard 3y ago
I have a two-letter github username and I wasn't even an early adopter. I only bothered creating an account when it was clear that Github was more than a fad and a few of the projects I contributed to moved there. I tried just my initials and it worked. Having a two-letter username is less exciting than simply a common word or name, though. Once in a while I get mentioned by accident in issues, or added to some organization. Twice I have had someone beg me to give it to them under the rationalization that it was "really cool" and I wasn't really "doing anything" with it... EDIT: I just looked up my ID and apparently none of the first half-million people to sign up for a github account tried to brute-force the small-username space. EDIT2: There are a few single-letter usernames with IDs in the millions, so I wonder if those are somehow "kept in reserve" by github admins and given out to friends or what's the story there.