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It's too bad the author removed the badge from their Github profile. It would be interesting to see the effect of this post on profile views.
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...
This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
You can check it here https://github.com/dwyl/hits Also https://twitter.com/holman/status/427937383376379904
Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
I'd hardly call taking a look at _where_ people are coming from to view your Github profile a "vanity" thing. A view of referrers could be extremely useful in tuning one's developer presence and visibility. That could come in handy when job-seeking, or trying to spread the word about your services and/or company. Both of which Github is widely used for.
I think this is a bit understated. A simple number coming off the image requests is going to be very unreliable. On average, you will not be able to discern bots and real users.
A plotting of the hits over time may be more usable.
Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
I agree, but I think such information should be available to all people. Some people will be doing this anyway, and they can hide this by using a transparent pixel.
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” badge on your profile page.
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...
I also don't have plans to use it in the future. I wanted to demonstrate the concept.
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...