github-streak

Artificially keep your GitHub streak going, and going, and going...

Because it's cool to have a long GitHub streak. You know you want to have one.

So giddyup, star and fork it now!

About this Project

Writeup: http://www.jontsai.com/2015/03/25/hack-github-streaks/

Motivation:

• Being diligent about slacking off.
• As an engineer/entrepreneur--I love automation.
• The quote, "Entrepeneurs work 80 hours a week so they can avoid working 40 hours a week."

Other Practical Uses

• If GitHub is part of your workflow/collaboration/deployment to production, this project is a perfect tool ensure that your whole DevOps pipeline is in good order.

Getting Started & Usage Instructions

• Clone this repository
• Type make [install] just one time on a Linux webserver that's always on, and you're set! (if you're curious, read the source code)
• No need to do anything after that, ever again (unless you want to)
• Recruiters and lame GitHub spiders will start contacting you
• Profit

Catchup

If the streak fails to run somehow, and your streak is broken, you can create a catchup commit as follows:

./streakify.sh <YYYY-MM-DD>

To manually create a catchup commit:

• Make a trivial change to the .streak file
• Commit the change
• Amend the commit date: git commit --amend --date="$(date -R MMDDhhmm YY)"

How to Contribute

• Fork this repository
• Submit a pull request
• Will add to this list...

License

• MIT, see LICENSE
• Created and maintained by Jonathan Tsai (@jontsai)