Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar (opens in new tab)

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114 pointsslaundy12y ago16 comments

16 comments

kivikakk12y ago

At this point I'll point out my recreation of the GitHub t-shirt: https://github.com/contrigraph

And the write-up: http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

ozh12y ago

Started a couple months ago: https://github.com/contributions

jasallen12y ago

Genius. Stupid. And Genius.

ivarv12y ago

Nice. a video game pixel art take on github profile art. I first saw a proof of concept on Will Leinweber's profile ( https://github.com/will/ ) The downside is the top place in your 'Contributions' feed gets heavily polluted..

hkmurakami12y ago

Is the left mushroom a 1-up mushroom while the right one a power-up mushroom? I must know! :P

karbin12y ago

This is fantastic, sorry. For newb question but how do you do inject into guy history like this?

tjbiddle12y ago

Haven't done so myself - But you can edit a git commit's information (Such as author and date):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454734/how-can-one-change...

Edit: Haven't looked at the repo - But I'm assuming this is what's being done.

slaundyOP12y ago

It's a Python script that takes in some options (which image, your github username, etc) and generates a bash script. Running the bash script actually makes the commits on the correct days to populate the pixels.

gelstudios12y ago

luckily git takes both GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE as environment variables. This python script generates a bash script that sets a date and commit one line changes for every pixel that needs some gitfiti.

potomak12y ago

Ok, it has nothing to do with git but this is my personal contribution to pixel art movement: http://drawbang.com

thomasfoster9612y ago

Brilliant.

Doubly useful seeing as I hardly ever contribute to everything.

peterkelly12y ago

Purely awesome.

I found that doing this manually was a pain; I knew someone would eventually write a script for it.

kilovoltaire12y ago

tl;dr it makes your contributions calendar look like this:

https://github.com/gelstudios

great little hack imho

arcatek12y ago

Doesn't your other contributions mess with the pattern ?

mAritz12y ago

I'd expect the script to account for other past contributions. Shouldn't be too hard?!

edit: Well, except of course that it'd be impossible to change past pixels to have less colour. So you're right.

StefanKarpinski12y ago

very cute :-)

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