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Show HN: Hack GitHub contribution map to display a message over one year

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Post by Micoloth » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC

Partly because who is Github to track my activity. Mainly because why not.

Re: Show HN: Hack GitHub contribution map to display a message over one year

Post by slaterdev » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 2:46 PM UTC

How did you do it?

Post by slaterdev » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 2:55 PM UTC

slaterdev wrote: post #2

How did you do it? Reminds me of https://www.strav.art/

I found the answer on your gh-contributions-gizmo repo:

> A 100 LOC script to hack the GitHub contributions map thingie to display a message over the course of a year.

> It works by deploying a Cloud Functions scheduled daily, which on the necessary days makes a commit on my behalf, on this very repo.