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500 days – the longest streak on GitHub?
- mehwoot 13y agoLongest streak for contributions to public repos. Private ones don't show up unless you have access to them.
- beltex 13y agoOr commits to non master branch that don't later get merged - https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-no...
- compay 13y agoMuch respect. But please take a vacation some time soon! You've more than earned it.
- BruceM 13y agoI've maintained a 417 day streak despite taking multiple holidays / vacations. My overall rule for what I do is to always make at least a little progress each day. Even if that means I go and fix some grammar or spelling in docs, or file some bugs, merge pull requests. Maintaining a streak doesn't have to mean 8 hours of work each day. :)
- jaimebuelta 13y agoAnyway, I think that just keeping yourself committed to "do something" every day it's not really a vacation. Sorry, but I find this nonsensical and bad example...
- doorhammer 13y agoOne thing I've learned from having been married to my wife is that people have hugely disparate views of what constitutes a vacation. For her it's the more standard lounge-at-the-beach vacations. For me it's always been the feeling that I'm not compelled to do anything by anyone other than myself. I don't want time bound obligations. I went to ireland for five weeks or so, and toured by bike, then did some hitchhiking and general wandering around. I did a lot of reading, and writing, and some learning/math. Every day I had some random downtime and would have been totally content fixing a small spelling mistake or two in some docs, if I had been into programming then. All that to just say, relaxation and contentment are pretty specifically personal, and I could see how it wouldn't be a hassle at all, especially if you've got some good momentum going and all it takes to keep it is to spend a few minutes committing a grammar fix. Ymmv of course, but that's just my two cents.
- shitlord 13y agoDon't you ever just want to take an entire day to relax? Just sit around drinking beer, eating pizza, and watching TV (or some variation of that)? I think I am the exact opposite, since I can barely work 35 hours a week without mentally clocking out.
- jamii 13y agoThis may have helped - https://github.com/codeforamerica/follow-all/commits?author=sferik https://github.com/codeforamerica/follow-all/commits?author=...
- trekky1700 13y agoWait, is he just changing version numbers? Suddenly he goes from most committed programmer ever to most...frivolous?
- scott_karana 13y agoWell, that could be the case, but they might also be testing the versions before updating them in the published gemfiles. It's still busywork, but that would at least be legitimate. :)
- bhaak 13y agoRunning the tests should still be completely automatable. If there are no tests and he tests manually, then there's some commits waiting that will improve the project. :-)
- freerobby 13y agoIf this is "frivolous" then I sure wish I were a more frivolous coder. Someone has to do the "frivolous" work of keeping up to date on security patches so our apps are locked down. Someone has to make "frivolous" corrections of bad indentation so code is more readable for the rest of us. Someone has to write all those "frivolous" READMEs so people like me can get up and running. Thank goodness for frivolous work like this.
- drdaeman 13y ago> Someone has to do the "frivolous" work Ahem... robots? It shouldn't require any human intervention to watch for changes and bump a version number. In fact, I guess, it didn't. Personally, I'd tolerate repetitive work for several days, maybe even a week, then I'd certainly hack a script and after several days of observation return only on script's "hey, I'm confused, please help me" notification.
- gshakir 13y agoGithub should not take weekends into account.
- geedew 13y agoI can beat it. Give me about 5 minutes and git filter my commits. Not to take away from the "accomplishment" ( achievement? ) of work, but its easy to create and post date commits to beat this "record".
- erikpukinskis 13y agoThat's not beating him, that's cheating. You can make it look like you have lots of commits but you won't actually be person with the longest streak.
- kramerc 13y agoAccording to http://git.io/top http://git.io/top when it last updated last week, it states michalbe currently has the longest streak. They have a streak of 561 days as of today according to their profile: https://github.com/michalbe https://github.com/michalbe
- BruceM 13y agoBut sadly that list is for people with more than a certain number of followers. I'm not on it (https://github.com/waywardmonkeys https://github.com/waywardmonkeys) despite having over 2000 contributions and a 417 day streak. :(
- janjongboom 13y agoMichal commits which movies/whatever he watches to GitHub :p
- euoia 13y agoI had a telephone interview this week where the interviewer asked why I hadn't committed anything recently on GitHub. This wasn't true, I had pushed something to GitHub that day. But it turns out GitHub uses your git config email to determine your streak - which was different to my GitHub email - and so my commits don't show up. I didn't really care, but since potential employers may consider it I have now fixed the issue. According to [1]: If your previous commits used the correct email, they will start to link after you add the email to your account. However, it may take some time for the old data to fall out of the server's cache before this happens. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-linked-to-the-wrong-user https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-commits-linked-t...
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoI always wonder about that. My active github projects are private, so I guess my "streak" isn't going to look so hot.
- logicallee 13y agoI misread that as 'recruiter' (cold-calling you) and got pretty enraged: "Oh, hey euoia this is ___ from KPFI Recruitment Services. I noticed your linked-in profile, which is a really great match for an opportunity we have at a major company in the boxed snack industry - I was just wondering why you hadn't committed to GitHub this week?"
- zachlatta 13y agoMajor props to him! I've also been trying to commit every day. My GitHub is https://github.com/zachlatta https://github.com/zachlatta.
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- Raticide 13y agoMine is 9 days. I think I'll keep it that way. You shouldn't live to work.
- mrharrison 13y agoPerhaps his work is living.
- fuzzywalrus 13y agoAgreed, for a community always linking stories blasting 60 hour work weeks, I find the dick measuring of commits a bit dissonant.
- Gigablah 13y agoSure, and maybe some people find that hacking away on personal projects is... fun?
- akerl_ 13y agoIs anyone aware of a way to pull the current/longest streak for a GitHub user, besides parsing their page's HTML? I'm aware that I can get the data used to make the dot chart from https://github.com/users/sferik/contributions_calendar_data https://github.com/users/sferik/contributions_calendar_data but that always gives 366 points. Previously, I thought the Current and Longest Streak counts were dynamically calculated from the given JSON data, but this shows that's not the case: it looks like GitHub is inserting those counts right into the HTML on their end. I can scrape those counts out of the HTML if I need to, but that feels pretty hacky, and I'd prefer to pull or calculate them in some other way if it's at all possible.
- dpweb 13y agoPeople trying to figure out who to hire - I'd screencap that all green Contributions box on my resume and call it a day. The picture is even him typing at a terminal. That's great.
- ggreer 13y agoWow, that's impressive! My streak is a mere 416 days so far: http://abughrai.be/github_streak_416_days.png http://abughrai.be/github_streak_416_days.png I think the most important thing is that you must want to do it. Without an innate desire, it would require inhuman willpower to maintain such a streak. That said, it does get easier over time. Once you get into the habit of doing at least a little work every day, the streak comes pretty naturally. I say "want" and not "like" because wanting and liking are not the same thing. I usually find myself frustrated and annoyed by code, but for some reason I keep coming back. I think most programmers are weird in that respect. As Douglas Crockford says: I think there has to be something seriously wrong with you in order to do this work. A normal person, once they’ve looked into the abyss, will say, “I’m done. This is stupid. I’m going to do something else.” But not us, ‘cause there’s something really wrong with us.[1] 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaEzHI9xyY#t=26m50s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaEzHI9xyY#t=26m50s
- odonnellryan 13y agoWow, and I was proud of my 26 days! Congratulations. Even if you "force" yourself to do something like this, you will find you learn so much so quickly by doing it daily for an hour or so.
- Morphling 13y agoI don't get the appeal for trying to make long streaks since they can be easily gamed.
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- doug1001 13y agoi just hope this is as far as it goes w/r/t broadcasting these sort of version-control-metrics. I would hate to see a "who hasn't done a damn thing all week" list.
- bevacqua 13y agoIn all honestly, that's easily tampered with. See: https://github.com/bevacqua/gitcanvas https://github.com/bevacqua/gitcanvas
- burkemw3 13y agoI agree with ggreer [0] that there must be a want to commit everyday. sferik, good job in doing what you want, when you want. When I saw this I was immediately reminded of the recently front page "Your 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour" [1]. I don't think that each week for a streak like this requires 60-hours. I know that a streak like this wouldn't be good for me, and I personally don't think it'd be good for most people. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7309996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7309996 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244109
- thomasfoster96 13y agoI thought I was pretty happy with myself when I passed 10 days. Not any longer.
- flaxin 13y agohey mine is 3 days - imagine how i feel :( 500 freaken' days - RESPECT
- jmtame 13y agoThat's impressive. I also found this impressive: https://github.com/god https://github.com/god (click on repositories)
- james33 13y agoI did this last year and reached 235 days (only ending because I got married, I think that is a valid excuse), but to be honest, it started to become a distraction because my competitive side took over and I started going out of my way to make commits when I had actually important things I needed to be getting done.
- lappa 13y agohttps://github.com/kanzure https://github.com/kanzure 4807 day streak
- habosa 13y agohttps://github.com/kanzure/streak https://github.com/kanzure/streak
- chid 13y agoPushed 4,027 commits to kanzure/streak Feb 20 - Feb 28
- ohmygeek 13y agohow was this done? I see "0 changed files with 0 additions and 0 deletions." on all commits.. (just wondering)
- jyz 13y agowtf, wizard?
- dasil003 13y agoSo longer than git has existed. Well done.
- sartakdotorg 13y agoMine ( https://github.com/sartak/ https://github.com/sartak/ ) is currently a 558 day streak. I'm studying Japanese, so I've been committing the new words I learn (at least one every day!) to my "vocabulary" repo. I started a while before GitHub even started tracking streaks.
- jyz 13y agoprops for keeping a streak that long! awesome
- writetoalok 13y agoIs there a website output for the word of the day etc. for the repository code? Couldn't find anything quickly on your site http://sartak.org http://sartak.org
- jyz 13y agoWELL, f*ck! There goes my grand plan to reach 356 and post on Hacker news
- zbruhnke 13y agoI love that he's even coding in his picture, probably because he wouldn't have a recent one without a computer in his lap. lol ... when I got 40-50 days I usually feel rather accomplished, this guy makes me feel like a slacker
- NKCSS 13y agoIt's not that hard; there are people out there that created activity bots to create messages in your activity heatmap, etc.
- NicoJuicy 13y agoThis is also a interesting one : https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/2657075/ https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/2657075/ (most active users on Github by commits)
- MattBearman 13y agoI love programming, but doing it EVERY day for a year and half sounds like my nightmare.
- seivan 13y agoI did 164 until I deleted a repo(?) and it removed a day and my streak went down to 94. Still fun though.
- wehadfun 13y agowhat was it like working on mt.gox? is the code crappy?
- tuananh 13y agoI saw the list of commit; most of them are 'update ... to version xx'..