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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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Oops, looks like the author got too many load from the server and removed the badge from his Readme.md? This is the commit which removed it: https://github.com/rushter/rushter/commit/00d0d552e262218dae... I guess one shouldn't do this if your profile becomes popular enough...

Shameless plug, but I'm playing with Rust these days and I've setup a small POC: https://github.com/neslinesli93/hits-rs

Hopefully actix-web is a bit more resilient than Python!

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

#112
post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's awesome! It sounds like a great setup for a solo dev wanting to save money, or even for bootstrapping a startup. Thanks for sharing

On a $300/mo server from Hetzner it can run git, CI, image registry, Mattermost, email, wiki, Discourse, Mumble, and host a bunch of apps (dev, stage, prod) without breaking a sweat. I set up the filesystem so it stores all server state for all apps and stuff in a single directory tree (thanks to Docker you can mount whatever source directories you want into a container at any path). A continuous rsync job in a loop…

Thanks for the further detail! I'm favorit-ing your reply for when I'll need to set up something like this soon. I appreciate it!

Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub

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post #28

Unrelated badge ideas: 1. Write a watcher that periodically reports whether you’re actively using a coding-related app (Terminal, VS Code, etc.) to a server you control, and serve a “coding”/“not coding” badge on your profile page; (could even detect which project you’re working on, and display that;) 2. Write an Apple Watch app that periodically reports whether you’re asleep, and serve a “sleeping”/“awake”/“unknown”…

Taking a dump/taking a whizz/blocked
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