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GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
- j13n 3y agoSomething I wrote recently to put a smile on my face after a couple of tough weeks doing cold outreach. If it makes another person smile, it was time we’ll spent.
- bloopernova 3y agoTMI: I'm stressed, in pain, behind on work, tired from caring for my partner, and I have a constant headache because my short range work glasses broke forcing me to use a much older pair. You made me smile and laugh, so I'm grateful for you today. Thank you.
- j13n 3y agoYou’re thoroughly welcome, bloopernova! Thank you for reading and letting me know I’ve had a positive impact — it means a lot.
- swozey 3y agoKeep your head up man try to find something to do just for you today
- bloopernova 3y agoHey thanks for the thoughts, you're pretty great you know? In good news, my new glasses got delivered today so I'm able to eliminate that literal and figurative headache :)
- j13n 3y agoThat’s great news re: the glasses — headaches are horrendous!
- jmholla 3y agoI think it would be handy to show what sloc is (spire lines of code). I had to look it up since I'm used to just loc and I could not get my brain to figure out the s this morning.
- linuxdude314 3y agoIt just means "source lines of code". "losc" sort of makes more sense with how we are used to speaking, but it's not as easy to pronounce as "sloc".
- j13n 3y agoApologies for the confusion. I hope the ambiguity didn’t detract too much from your enjoyment. Maybe I could sneak an <abbr> in there for SLOC like I did for CSP.
- linuxdude314 3y agoI'm really curious where you found "spire lines of code". I can't find anything for that in a google search. What does that mean?
- sixstringtheory 3y agoProbably just a swypo for “source”. o is close to p, u is close to i.
- jmholla 3y agoThat was precisely it. Getting the right message out of Gboard is like pulling teeth. Just this message had like fifteen typos.
- sixstringtheory 3y agoI don’t know if it’s my expectations evolving after using swyping for a while but it seems to have gotten worse over time. There’s gotta be a word for this phenomenon.
- mjbatty 3y agoIt made me smile, and also made me consider enforcing Q∝ on all devs :)
- j13n 3y agoThe Q-quotient will be my legacy… what have I done.
- maccard 3y agoThis is silly. I love it.
- j13n 3y agoMy favourite review so far! Thank you for the kind words.
- zmgsabst 3y agoIf I submit an empty repo, but have a friend star it, then I’m the peak coder?
- j13n 3y agoYou'd be a superposition of infinitely capable and the sum type of all divide-by-zero errors. Either way, I'd want to work with you.
- bombolo 3y agoNo worries, it's full of bots that like random repos to confuse the detection systems about the account being a bot.
- heisenbit 3y agoHN karma/1000 is a good proxy for GitHub stars so you just need the repo.
- lioeters 3y agoNo, but I like the hustle. You're hired!
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoyou don't star your own repos? have some self-confidence
- j13n 3y agoIs this better or worse than laughing at your jokes?
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoonly if they're funny
- bloopernova 3y agoThis is beautiful and hilarious. Thank you for the uplifting on a difficult morning. Now to figure out how to give my best gist[1] a million stars :D https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b3f3ae24019 https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b... (Making a Nice zsh environment: Quick HOWTO install fzf oh-my-zsh powerlevel10k fd ripgrep on MacOS) PS. Gimme stars! I crave stars! PPS. More seriously, the 47 stars on that little guide have a disproportionate impact on my happiness. Plus some of my most respected peers said it was useful to them. The lesson here is that you can meaningfully improve our software world without writing an ubiquitous and elegant framework or new language. Instead, people still need good curated content, guides that glue things together, and plain old documentation. PPPS. So start writing gists and improve project documentation with PRs: I believe in you!
- j13n 3y agofzf, zsh, rg, and fd all on macOS‽ Delectable! Stars++ And more importantly, helping other people out of the goodness of your heart. Thank you for being so generous, fellow earthling!
- RGBCube 3y agoI think the number of badges in the README also need to be included in the formula for Q.
- j13n 3y agoAn astute observation! More badges being more vain than less, should that push up or down one’s Q-quotient?
- BrianHenryIE 3y agoParticularly "license" badges, which just repeat information already elsewhere on the main repo page.
- RGBCube 3y agoPush up, obviously! I mean, more badges is always better... right?
- j13n 3y agoAs long as you’ve got some big numbers, absolutely. Failing builds and outdated dependencies disappear when sitting beside 20K stars and 100K downloads.
- noman-land 3y agoThis made me laugh many times.
- j13n 3y agoMission accomplished! Happy to hear it.