Vanity text for GitHub

Write to your GitHub activity chart.

Inspired by Rockstar

Installation

From APT package repository

This works for Debian, Ubuntu and other derivatives.

The repo is signed with my keybase.io key.

echo "deb http://bezdomni.net/packages/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bezomni.list
curl https://keybase.io/ihabunek/pgp_keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-github-vanity

From Python Package Index

Preferably install into a virtual environment.

pip install github-vanity

Usage

Initialize an empty Git repository which you will submit to GitHub.

Populate the repo with the desired text:

vanity write "Hi there!"

Push the repo to GitHub and presto!

Reference

vanity write [options] text

• text - text to write to the commit chart

Available options:

• -h, --help - show usage instructions
• -d, --start_date - the date to start with, should be a Sunday
• -o, --offset - number of spaces to leave to the left (default is 0)
• -s, --spacing - spacing between letters (default is 1)
• -w, --space_width - width of space character (default is 4)
• -c, --commits - number of commits per pixel (default is 50)

The default start_date is the Sunday 52 weeks before the last one, which is the first pixel visible on the commit chart.