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Here are some similar tools I've used for this in the past:

It strikes how every single one of these tools assume you have an empty contribution timeline to begin with.

Gonna be really annoying if everybody has one of this things. What's wrong with, you know, the actual data about your github activities?

I don't really expect anyone to keep theirs after the initial novelty has worn off, it was just a quick, fun thing for me to make.

Hey, what happened to that flashing RGB thing with the catchy song on your website?

Yeah I would agree with that. Hopefully!

As for the RGB thing, I am surprised you recognized my name! I had to take it down awhile ago at the request of the original author. He was fine with me having it up there as long as I credited him (by the time he saw it on there it had been up for like 10 years, originally I had no idea where it came from). I think he was nervous about a potential issue with the copyrighted music (it was a midi of the beverly hills cop theme).

It took me a second to remember where I knew your name from. :P I used to always tell people to go to your site, once we put it up on a giant projector at a LAN party until nobody could take it anymore.

Commit history banner I appreciated: https://twitter.com/gjreda/status/432661964209143808/photo/1

Very, very cool. But I've got a small glitch. Mine shifts a day too early: https://github.com/replaid

Perhaps a time zone issue? Created this at 10pm Eastern time.

So I guess most people have a blank activity grid and need something to fill it?

lol this is so pro. Wouldn't this break after a day when all the commits shift over one?

It will take a week for that, and you only lose one column of pixels. If it still fits, you could prepend some spaces to your text to push it over a few months.

Just make it a very very slow marquee.

Im job hunting soon and lots of people will be looking at my github. Im not sure if this would be cool or not. On the fence.

Make it say "HIRE ME!"

what happens if you have actual contributions, do they pollute the banner?

dude this is sick

Very clever.

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