Addy Osmani's Commit History

[shrig94]

https://github.com/addyosmani

[bgoldste]

Anyone know how he did it? I can see dummy commits like this, automated somehow: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/addy-graph-hack/commits?autho...

[ionicabizau → bgoldste]

I'm the bad guy behind this thing. :)

Since I signed up on GitHub I was searching for this bug: to "draw" things on others contributions graphs. And finally I found a trick. I cannot tell you exactly how it works, but the docs are very clear, you will get it: https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-no...

I disclosed this trick to the security team, but they said it's a low priority bug and I cannot get a reward for it (https://bounty.github.com/).

So, I thought: if I cannot get money for this discover, I will get some popularity. And I "vandalized" some contributions graphs:

- https://github.com/addyosmani - https://github.com/vim-scripts - https://twitter.com/IonicaBizau/status/594024920826380288

Then I shown the GitHub Security team the mess I did. They told me not to do that again since this is a violation of the GitHub's terms. I kept that in mind and didn't repeat it.

On the other side, Addy Osmani really liked this:

- https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/594068463687233536 - https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/595323559947427841

And the popularity came as well: new followers and stars!

Now, since you know everything, if you want to give me a reward, here is a Paypal donation url: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b...

Thanks! :-)

[refulgentis → bgoldste]

Check out the repo for that commit: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/addy-graph-hack

Specifically, this tool: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/github-contributions

[shrig94 → bgoldste]

Github respects the dates attached to the commits, not the time they were actually committed.

[qu4z-2 → shrig94]

Alternatively, the date they were actually committed, not the time they were pushed.

[slg]

Probably should have just listed to the repo with the software he used to make that.

https://github.com/IonicaBizau/github-contributions

[shrig94 → slg]

Here's another: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

[knowbody]

http://taggit.ains.co/

[msvan]

Damn, I had this idea a while ago but never executed on it. Great work Addy, you beat me to it!

[dlnovell]

[slow clap]