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I've built a tool to track downloads counts for releases of repositories:
https://repostats.yolo42.com
I run two Open-Source projects and we host our releases on Github. Github maintains a total counter for downloads but there is no way to track downloads per day.
It is pretty basic and bare-bones but works. It tracks downloads per asset, which gives you a good insight into adoption of your product.
It requires you to Sign in with Github only to work around the rate-limits of Github API. It only needs read access on basic profile data.
You can add up-to 3 repositories to track and it is completely free.
Let me know what you think!
This might be a cliche resolutions post but it is always a pleasure to read through the comments every year and seeing what this community is up to. I'd love to know if you had set out any goals (personal, professional, something else) for the year or part of the year of 2019 and how far did you reach.
As for myself, I started with 2019 with four personal goals:
- Go to the gym 3 times a week
- Get more social and make some close friends
- Learn a new language
- Read 30 books
I went to the gym about 80 times since April. I'm a little soft on myself because I never went to a gym ever before and had a terrible fitness level. My fitness has improved but not significantly. I count this as 40% successful.
I've made two very good friends and connected back with an old friend. I was not social at all but made the close friends I wanted. This is 50% success.
I was learning Spanish but dropped that by June for reasons that can only be classified as excuses. I'm still thinking through if I should pick up again or not. Total failure.
I read 30 books. I used to be an avid reader in my teens but then dropped it through college so I've started back again and I'm thoroughly enjoying. This goal made my two hour commute a day very productive.
So it was 50% success, but my grit and perseverance has improved as a side-effect. I'll probably carry these on into 2020 as well and to make these into (hopefully) long lasting habits.
I created product on the side as a side project in my own time and it has become a huge hit in the community to a point where my employers wants me to transfer the code-base over. The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source.
I've developed it on my own time but the product directly relates to what my employer does so I've sort of cornered myself in a bad place. In hindsight, I also made some mistakes in how I went about evangelizing it.
Ideally, I want to keep the ownership with myself but I doubt that is going to work out.
I think what I want is: - to be compensated in some form for all the time I've put in over the last two years - to have control over the product roadmap (this I'm fairly confident won't happen in the way I want in the long run)
What are my options here? What should I ask for here? I don't have much clue as to what can I ask for here so any suggestions would be helpful. People at my company generally wants to work things out to keep everyone happy to some degree.
I had decided on the following three goals for 2018:
- Run 3 times a week. I was 30% successful at this. I dropped the ball during a time period when I switched jobs. Not only that, I still don't have a regular schedule but my stamina is better than before and I'll spill this one over to 2019.
- Read 26 books. I used to read a lot of books in school but in college and now in the tech world, it was sidelined and did miss it. I was more than 100% successful in this one. I read 20 books and listened to more than 25 audiobooks. Some friends recommend that I try out audiobooks and I thoroughly enjoy my commute.
- Get into flow stat as fast as possible. I failed at this miserably. I used to get a lot of focused time at the last job but the new one has an interrupt driven team. I realized this later than I should have (October). I've not been successful in making any progress yet but have some ideas and have started to test those out now. This is my brain giving an excuse but I have to accept that I failed.
An additional stretch goal towards which I made some progress was start learning a new language. This was one of "In 5 years I want to". I have started learning Spanish and I'm in early stages but I've got my habit in place.
I'd love to know how others did with their resolutions and what they learned about themselves more.
I had decided on the following three goals for 2018:
- Run 3 times a week. I was 30% successful at this. I dropped the ball during a time period when I switched jobs. Not only that, I still don't have a regular schedule but my stamina is better than before and I'll spill this one over to 2019.
- Read 26 books. I used to read a lot of books in school but in college and now in the tech world, it was sidelined and did miss it. I was more than 100% successful in this one. I read 20 books and listened to more than 25 audiobooks. Some friends recommend that I try out audiobooks and I thoroughly enjoy my commute.
- Get into flow stat as fast as possible. I failed at this miserably. I used to get a lot of focused time at the last job but the new one has an interrupt driven team. I realized this later than I should have (October). I've not been successful in making any progress yet but have some ideas and have started to test those out now. This is my brain giving an excuse but I have to accept that I failed.
An additional stretch goal towards which I made some progress was start learning a new language. This was one of "In 5 years I want to". I have started learning Spanish and I'm in early stages but I've got my habit in place.
I'd love to know how others did with their resolutions and what they learned about themselves more.