Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from GitHub

• gitfiti

  35 7,943 3.4 Python

  abusing github commit history for the lulz

There is even a tool[1] to draw images in commit history (so called gitifi).

It is possible because git allows to create and push commit with arbitrary date, using GIT_AUTHOR_DATE env variable or --date flag.

[1]: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

• prql

  106 9,414 9.9 Rust

  PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

  

Them doing it and you getting annoyed sounds like a bad equilibrium!

I'd echo the sibling comment re adding what is / isn't appreciated into a CONTRIBUTING.md. My guess is people are doing it to get their feet wet with the repo, being helpful on the margin, and would not do it if they thought it was unhelpful on the margin.

Here's PRQL's: https://github.com/prql/prql/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• GitHub-Activity-Art

  1 12 10.0 C#

  Turn your GitHub profile activity heatmap into an image of your choice.

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