Daily Number Incrementer 🚀🔢

So, you’ve found my secret project. Congratulations. 🕵️‍♂️

This little script does exactly what you think it does: it increments a number in a file every single day, commits the change to Git, and then magically schedules itself to run again at some random time tomorrow.

Yes, that means you get a glorious green square every day on GitHub ✅. And yes, dear future employer who is definitely reading this right now 👀… this repo is basically just a glorified commit streak machine.

👉 Please, please also check my other projects if you want to see actual work that required thinking. This one’s just here to feed the algorithmic gods of GitHub. 🙏

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Setup 🛠️

This code was adapted to run on Windows using Task Scheduler. If you’re on Linux or Mac, you can use cron instead.

1. Clone this repo (don’t ask why):

   git clone https://github.com/Shogun89/fancy_job
   cd fancy_job

2. Run the script:

   python update_number.py

   (Yes, it’s that dumb. No, it doesn’t need fancy dependencies… unless you want them, in which case read on.)

3. Optional, but absurdly over-engineered: If you want AI-generated commit messages because why not, install uv and do:

   set FANCY_JOB_USE_LLM=true uv run python update_number.py

   Boom. Now your profile will look “active” while you’re still asleep. 🛌💤

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Usage 🎉

• Increments the number in number.txt 📄
• Commits to Git with or without the help of a robot 🤖
• Repeats forever, or at least until you actually get a job 💼

⚠️ Disclaimer to recruiters / employers: This project is satire. If you’re impressed by this repo, we need to talk. Please look at literally anything else I’ve built.