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The flip side to snapping a picture when merges fail: http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa... and HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039984

Obviously the top graphic (Octocat as Mega Man) needs to be a t-shirt. Sooner rather than later.

Couldn't agree more. I got it from the excellent collection here: http://octodex.github.com/

So many of those beg to be t-shirts.

Unfortunately, from the FAQ[1]:

Q: Can I create a product containing an octocat?

You may not use an octocat, created by GitHub or by you, for products or merchandise without written permission from GitHub. This includes, but is not limited to t-shirts, toys, stickers, etc.

[1] http://octodex.github.com/faq.html

THANK. YOU.

Take it a step further with every commit.

https://github.com/mroth/lolcommits

This combined with https://github.com/noidontdig/gitdown might make for some good late nights. I'd like to see an image cap when I'm in ballmer mode.

just saw this last night as well

http://gitshots.com/

a similar project is lolcommits (http://mroth.github.io/lolcommits/). I use it to cap a 5 second gif on each commit :)

That's a ridiculously amusing project: http://github.com/ranman/gitshots I work on it from time to time... I'd love to like... design it or something. You can render a video of all gitshots for a user: http://gitshots.com/user/ranman.avi

Another implementation (available as ruby gem):

http://mribica.github.io/posts/fun-with-git-pre-commit/

http://rubygems.org/gems/gitshot

https://github.com/mribica/gitshot

This reminds me of a gem an excoworker of mine made a while back called Gitstagram -- takes pictures when you commit:

https://github.com/gregorym/gitstagram

Author here, just pushed a Firefox version! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/github-selfie...

Oh! I immediately thought this was related to #iamdoingprogramming[1], thanks to @aphyr.[2] It's not, but there could be overlap.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamdoingprogramming

[2] https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/445566492172492800

This is really cool, what would be even cooler though is to have them in commit messages. Sadly though, GitHub does not allow images (or very limited markdown) in commit messages. :/

but what if you're one of those devs who likes to work naked ?

I assume you do keep the camera roughly on your face while working.

This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0

Why? This is not useful for anything at all. (At least to my knowledge)

I believe that's the point.

Fun. You remember that?

"Who would say that pleasure is not useful?" ~ Charles Eames

You're correct, however I would not consider nerd selfies as pleasurable. Not Useful.

You might not. Others do, apparently.

Making contributing code more fun will almost certainly lead to projects receiving more contributions.

Fair enough.

OMG:) What's next? Donation system based on commits?

http://gittip.com

OMG yes

GitHub Selfies