177 Days of GitHub
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177 Days of GitHub
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Re: 177 Days of GitHub
#2A really interesting experiment, and congrats for sticking to it for so long!
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#3I had the same kind of motivations and had a 83 day long streak. Was finding it difficult to contribute a lot on weekends. One travel broke my streak and was happy for it. https://github.com/manojlds
Blogging on github ( octopress, Jekyll, static files etc ) is one of the easiest ways to contribute.
Btw, anyone with similar habit for consecutive days visited on stackoverflow? http://stackoverflow.com/users/526535/manojlds
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#4Hah, just did the same thing since last month. Only manage to have a 33-day long streak ( https://github.com/cheeaun/ ). Perhaps will do it again when I feel motivated :)
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#5Really curious about what, if any, side effects you picked up. Getting a commit streak is cool, but did you learn anything about networking, or finding open source projects to create/contribute to? Something that you feel you'll be able to take with you into your work habit (aside from the awesome "learn how to habit").
Great post!
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#6I tried the same thing a few months ago (this lasted 58 days), but some days you just don’t want to work.
A few notes:
- it’s the time of the commit which is important, not the push. So you can contribute on your projects locally if you don’t have Internet access (e.g. on vacations), and then push at the end of the week. It’ll be the same as having pushed everyday during one week (this works with personal projects, be careful with projects where there are other contributors)
- Only contributions on 'master' are counted by GitHub, so if you use multiple branchs for new features / bug fixes, the contributions will count only when (and if) you’ll merge them into master
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#7Really curious about what, if any, side effects you picked up. Getting a commit streak is cool, but did you learn anything about networking, or finding open source projects to create/contribute to? Something that you feel you'll be able to take with you into your work habit (aside from the awesome "learn how to habit"). Great post!
I did actually contribute to more open source projects that were not my own! This was because I had run out of my own ideas and wanted to keep making meaningful contributions. Some side-effects near the end were more negative than anything though, including a lack of motivation to do ANYTHING GitHub related. It was uncomfortable at some points because I felt I was being forced against my will to contribute.
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#8A really interesting experiment, and congrats for sticking to it for so long!
Thank you! I am glad you found it interesting, it was certainly a learning experience for me :)
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#9Still haven't broken my 30 day streak record since the last time I wrote about it [0]. Bums me out.
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#10Mine was 126 days, and my story went almost exactly like this, down to the end: I just kinda... spaced out. Even in a month with something like 50,000 miles flown, committed every day. But at some point, it just didn't matter any more, and I slipped up.