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What do you recommend? There was one I remember seeing the name of here but I've forgotten
nginx+git+cgit
That is an alternative, if you are using git you probably are well versed in Linux.
How to track and display profile views on GitHub
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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#92This isn’t meant to last. GitHub has been proxying markdown images for years to avoid exactly this. Probably they haven’t gotten around to fixing that here yet… but this surprises me.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#93Image hit counters! Who's going to build the github developer web ring? We need all the old things back.
[inserts gif of visitor counter spinning out of control] [also adds in some "under construction" gifs] I really wish I had some way to access my original AOL website. So many memories... and web ring links...
Could always browse http://oocities.org for some similar memories!
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#94This isn’t meant to last. GitHub has been proxying markdown images for years to avoid exactly this. Probably they haven’t gotten around to fixing that here yet… but this surprises me.
The trick here is preventing the proxy from caching the image. The request is then still proxied but has a 1:1 correspondence to requests for the image. But now that it's public knowledge that this works, I agree that GitHub will close the hole.
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#96Unrelated 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”…
My GitHub profile is automatically updated with the estimated length of my email backlog: https://github.com/raxod502/github-email-backlog
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3. Write an integration to the local cemetery, and after funeral is successfully detected serve "alive/dead" badge on the profile page.
Writing tests for this feature might be difficult.
Because I could not test for Death
He kindly test'd for me —
The Fixture held but just Ourselves —
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Writing tests for this feature might be difficult.
This might be a good plot for a who-dunnit.
git commit murder
https://www.amazon.com/commit-murder-Michael-Warren-Lucas-eb...
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#99Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
Sorry, but don't project your needs onto others.
It is still useful enough to know if someone looked at your github repos when you're looking for a job. Typically this is useful when a visitor also hits other sites related to you like your Linkedin, or gets a link to your github from a printed resume, etc. It lets you know someone is interested and during a job search that can be useful information. It doesn't have to be only about "vanity", but maybe you're applying some kind of narrow view on the rest of the world.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#100This isn’t meant to last. GitHub has been proxying markdown images for years to avoid exactly this. Probably they haven’t gotten around to fixing that here yet… but this surprises me.
I've been using this exact trick to track hits on my github repos for years already. If/when Github gets around to fixing it, I've already had it working for many years so even if it wasn't "meant to last", it's already lasted quite a while and I have no regrets. If they stop allowing it, then so be it.