Show HN: Hack GitHub contribution map to display a message over one year (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsMicoloth11mo ago2 comments

Partly because who is Github to track my activity. Mainly because why not.

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How did you do it?

I found the answer on your gh-contributions-gizmo repo:

> A 100 LOC script to hack the GitHub contributions map thingie to display a message over the course of a year.

> It works by deploying a Cloud Functions scheduled daily, which on the necessary days makes a commit on my behalf, on this very repo.

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5 pointsMicoloth11mo ago2 comments

Partly because who is Github to track my activity. Mainly because why not.

How did you do it?

I found the answer on your gh-contributions-gizmo repo:

> A 100 LOC script to hack the GitHub contributions map thingie to display a message over the course of a year.

> It works by deploying a Cloud Functions scheduled daily, which on the necessary days makes a commit on my behalf, on this very repo.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse