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Having worked with Will for quite a few years, he has a great ability to create some impressive projects like this. Even his commit graph on his GitHub (https://github.com/will) has been consistent for I think 10 years now?

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>Even his commit graph on his GitHub (https://github.com/will) has been consistent for I think 10 years now?

umm... https://github.com/will/githubprofilecheat

So it has been 10 years :)

It even spells out his first name....

I thought that was the whole topic of this conversation.

He has pushed 21,383 commits to that repo to keep his commit graph looking that good.

Note the few days he had to push commits when they were zero commit days.

One day Will will while away Will's last wonton day, and a scheduled task somewhere will continue this repo.

consider paying a visit to Will's homepage: http://bitfission.com/

Even though the site is under construction, it is still very nice, with some enjoyable tunes.

Thank you. please don’t try and right click to steal the source though

It needs one of those things that alerts anyone who tries to right click :) An even better one would be to totally preventDefault oncontextmenu. That'll stop them!

> It needs one of those things that alerts anyone who tries to right click :)

Did you visit the site?

I did.

Made on mac and doom music. You're an incredible human

You are an incredible webmaster!

I had a good laugh there, thanks.

i clicked back to get back to HN after visiting and the music was still playing. oddly enough i didnt hate that.

Make sure you're running Netscape 3.0.

It won't play midi files natively for me in Chrome.

Wow, so this is the webmaster who maintains Ling's Cars!

Oh dear God...

WEBRING!

I haven't heard that in a while.

I'm starting to have flashbacks, hearing the sound of 56kb dialup modems...

On the note of GitHub commit history, incredibly off-topic: I hate when potential jobs ask for my github profile (sometimes as a strict requirement). All of my (4+ years) profesional work has been in private Bitbucket repos so my github is a random college project and some community project I did one weekend. Should I be feeding the "grind mentality" and contributing to open source or doing random side projects to fluff it out? Am I the odd one out?

no you're fine without a filled github account. most engineers don't write code during their free time and, like you, work in private repos for their corporate job.

No, you shouldn't. It's obvious that any job that "requires" this, will not be a job that you want to be in.

I do all my work on private repos. My github looks bare. If they want code I'll send them code. If they want my github profile, I'll send them that and tell them all my code is private, hit me up for it/examples.

What is "grind mentality" in this context? Is this common in the programming world too?

At least from my (single data point) perspective it is. I feel the pressure to always be developing the next greatest thing in the next greatest language or framework and producing conference/journal-worthy research papers (I work in research).

Very clever of him to have Friday align with the horizontal strokes of W, I, and L. Ready Only Friday manifested.

It's pretty easy to spoof the commit graph on Github like this, since Github bases it on user-provided timestamps and does not question them.

Will has a repository just for that: https://github.com/will/githubprofilecheat

It's covered with commits well into the future :) Love it.

Will is a legend. He is the epitome of big dick energy on GitHub. The sheer audacity of his username being "will", his commit graph, the fact that I already knew who he was before this was posted on HN... legend...

> big dick energy

Should I keep fighting against this phrase or is it futile?

Depends in you're fighting it with big dick energy or not

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