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I wonder how you can go on that long. You can easily see in mine (https://github.com/daurnimator https://github.com/daurnimator) when I went on vacation for 3

I wonder how you can go on that long. You can easily see in mine (https://github.com/daurnimator https://github.com/daurnimator) when I went on vacation for 3 weeks in November/December last year.

Manishearth 11y ago
Well, last summer I was doing GSoC so it was easy. During the semester I have to stay put anyway. Any weekend excursions I would be taking a laptop with me for studying (we have a lot of coursework, and I usually am overloaded with stuff so I need to allocate at least some weekend time for coursework) so I would squeeze in some programming and push it when I got access to internet again. Programming is a refreshing change from physics coursework (which I like too, but it gets tedious) and other stuff, so it's easy to do it daily. When I went on vacation to the Sunderbans I was filing issues and making minor fixes from my phone. This summer my internship is elsewhere, and while I do still contribute to Rust/Servo because I love doing it, as mentioned in the post I'll probably forget one day or just take a break. At this point, if I go on vacation or something I'm just going to drop it -- as I mentioned I don't care about the streak anymore and what I gained from it won't go away unless I take a really long break.
- shubhamjain 11y ago
  Your streak is impressive. I have a question - Do you ever suffer from FOMO [1] while investing yourself in writing code everyday? Of course, I know, programming is fun but does it turn into anxiety when you see other people's achievements? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
  - Manishearth 11y ago
    Not really, no. As far as missing out on Real World social interactions and stuff; I make sure I get some sunlight and talk with people :) Living in a hostel I get a lot of that anyway. Plus, between organizing events and going to events of various kinds I don't miss out on much. As far as missing out on programmery things go; I don't mind. Part of this is because programming has been a hobby for most of my life and only recently did I start treating it as a viable career option. (I had thought of it as a "backup plan" in the past but didn't do much to maintain that). I'm not doing as many large contribs as I was doing last summer or this winter. And yes, that can get to me at times. I have this huge queue of things that I've planned to work on, and sometimes someone else picks it up. It's initially saddening, but then I'm happy because someone else wants to work on something I thought up, and if they hadn't, it would never have been done in the first place! In open source you're generally surrounded by awesome people so I'm used to it; I don't really have anxiety issues due to that.
    - shubhamjain 11y ago
      Awesome! That was quite inspiring - you managed to travel, contribute, write and go to events while still keeping up with all of your coursework. :) I often complained about lack of time for crossing-out things from my to-do list but it is my late realization that, one can be as productive as he wants and time is not really as big as constraint as it feels.
ggreer 11y ago
I'm not sure if you know, but GitHub's stats depend on the viewing user. Most who look at my GitHub profile will see a streak of only 13 days[1], but my coworkers see 171, and I see 871[2]. If the viewer can't see a repo, it won't show up in the stats. 1. https://github.com/ggreer https://github.com/ggreer 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-27%20at%2022.20.00.png http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%20201...
- daurnimator 11y ago
  I always figured this, but never cared to confirm. Otherwise, you should take a holiday!
- reidrac 11y ago
  Also if you contribute to a clone, it won't show in the stats. It is a metric for self-motivation, but I guess it can be wrongly used for other things. Is like the "GH is your CV" thing, ignoring that there are other code hosting environments and non public code.

I wonder how you can go on that long. You can easily see in mine (https://github.com/daurnimator https://github.com/daurnimator) when I went on vacation for 3 weeks in November/December last year.

Manishearth 11y ago

Well, last summer I was doing GSoC so it was easy. During the semester I have to stay put anyway. Any weekend excursions I would be taking a laptop with me for studying (we have a lot of coursework, and I usually am overloaded with stuff so I need to allocate at least some weekend time for coursework) so I would squeeze in some programming and push it when I got access to internet again. Programming is a refreshing change from physics coursework (which I like too, but it gets tedious) and other stuff, so it's easy to do it daily. When I went on vacation to the Sunderbans I was filing issues and making minor fixes from my phone. This summer my internship is elsewhere, and while I do still contribute to Rust/Servo because I love doing it, as mentioned in the post I'll probably forget one day or just take a break. At this point, if I go on vacation or something I'm just going to drop it -- as I mentioned I don't care about the streak anymore and what I gained from it won't go away unless I take a really long break.

shubhamjain 11y ago
Your streak is impressive. I have a question - Do you ever suffer from FOMO [1] while investing yourself in writing code everyday? Of course, I know, programming is fun but does it turn into anxiety when you see other people's achievements? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
- Manishearth 11y ago
  Not really, no. As far as missing out on Real World social interactions and stuff; I make sure I get some sunlight and talk with people :) Living in a hostel I get a lot of that anyway. Plus, between organizing events and going to events of various kinds I don't miss out on much. As far as missing out on programmery things go; I don't mind. Part of this is because programming has been a hobby for most of my life and only recently did I start treating it as a viable career option. (I had thought of it as a "backup plan" in the past but didn't do much to maintain that). I'm not doing as many large contribs as I was doing last summer or this winter. And yes, that can get to me at times. I have this huge queue of things that I've planned to work on, and sometimes someone else picks it up. It's initially saddening, but then I'm happy because someone else wants to work on something I thought up, and if they hadn't, it would never have been done in the first place! In open source you're generally surrounded by awesome people so I'm used to it; I don't really have anxiety issues due to that.
  - shubhamjain 11y ago
    Awesome! That was quite inspiring - you managed to travel, contribute, write and go to events while still keeping up with all of your coursework. :) I often complained about lack of time for crossing-out things from my to-do list but it is my late realization that, one can be as productive as he wants and time is not really as big as constraint as it feels.

ggreer 11y ago

I'm not sure if you know, but GitHub's stats depend on the viewing user. Most who look at my GitHub profile will see a streak of only 13 days[1], but my coworkers see 171, and I see 871[2]. If the viewer can't see a repo, it won't show up in the stats. 1. https://github.com/ggreer https://github.com/ggreer 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-27%20at%2022.20.00.png http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%20201...

daurnimator 11y ago
I always figured this, but never cared to confirm. Otherwise, you should take a holiday!
reidrac 11y ago
Also if you contribute to a clone, it won't show in the stats. It is a metric for self-motivation, but I guess it can be wrongly used for other things. Is like the "GH is your CV" thing, ignoring that there are other code hosting environments and non public code.