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Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything.

I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#12

It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think he/she mentions open source at all?

At the same time it's better to have a working project and having the satisfaction of shipping than going in circles trying to appease everyones definitions of open source.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part of your process is the bottle neck? Are you rendering the posters server side?

Turns out every part of my process is the bottleneck, ha. I'm fetching the user's history from GH, which is working OK at best right now, and also rendering them server side. So... 0 for 2.

lambda would be a good way of scaling this without improving the architecture otherwise :)

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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post #12

It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think he/she mentions open source at all? At the same time it's better to have a working project and having the satisfaction of shipping than going in circles trying to appease everyones definitions of open source.

The whole thing is about "show your Github contributions", further cementing Github's monopolism, right?

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

On the other hand, I find Github extremely useful. 90% of the time when I'm looking for a library, Github's search box is the first place I go.

Then if I can't find it that way, I begrudgingly head over to Google.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think he/she mentions open source at all? At the same time it's better to have a working project and having the satisfaction of shipping than going in circles trying to appease everyones definitions of open source.

The whole thing is about "show your Github contributions", further cementing Github's monopolism, right?

I think it's more "I've created a way to make your Github contributions into a poster." I understand where you are coming from, but it's a tad bit reactionary, don't you think?

If I created a website for you to turn a user's facebook activity statistics into a T-Shirt I would hope that you don't think it is contributing to facebook's monopolism of social media.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

I don't see this as assuming that open source is only Github, its just a matter of practicality. If you want to build a tool that interacts with git repos it is easier to use the Github API than it is to deal with bare git repos, SVN repos, and other random open source projects distributed as tarballs, etc.

I speak from experience, having built a crawler and search engine that extracts changelogs from open source projects on Github, parses them, and provides an API for changelogs. [1] I probably never would have built this project if the only thing that had been available to me was bare git repos. It's the github API that makes this search engine possible.

The side effect of the Github "monopoly" is that Github can afford to provide a decent API that makes it possible to do things that simply aren't feasible if you are facing a non standard collection of bare git, svn, mecurial, etc repos.

[1] https://changelogs.md/

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

This comment is very off-topic.

Nowhere does this project say that "GitHub = open source" and I'm not sure why you're harping on it here. In fact, this project can even include private (ie. non-open source) commits, making your point even more irrelevant.

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