Can we please not normalize this? Vanity tracking at its worst. You don't need to know.
*[edit] I don't mean to shit on the OPs work or the coolness factor here. I'm just a bit put off by the idea of creating new anxiety levers for people to pull that don't offer much if any real value.
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.
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.
> The results are tiny changes in the behavior of people over time. But small changes add up, like compound interest. This is one reason that BUMMER naturally promotes tribalism and is tearing society apart, even if the techies in a BUMMER company are well-meaning. In order for BUMMER code to self-optimize, it naturally and automatically seizes upon any latent tribalism and racism, for these are the neural hashtags waiting out there in everyone’s psyche, which can be accentuated for the purpose of attention monopoly.
BUMMER is an acronym
> Seems like a good moment to coin an acronym so I don’t have to repeat, over and over, the same account of the pieces that make up the problem. How about “Behaviors of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent”? BUMMER. BUMMER is a machine, a statistical machine that lives in the computing clouds. To review, phenomena that are statistical and fuzzy are nevertheless real. Even at their best, BUMMER algorithms can only calculate the chances that a person will act in a particular way. But what might be only a chance for each person approaches being a certainty on the average for large numbers of people. The overall population can be affected with greater predictability than can any single person.
Similar dynamics show up in any forum where people compete with others for points, e.g. karma.