[HN Gopher] GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
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GitHub Actions and vanity metrics
Author : j13n
Score : 112 points
Date : 2023-08-05 09:37 UTC (13 hours ago)
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| j13n wrote:
| Something I wrote recently to put a smile on my face after a
| couple of tough weeks doing cold outreach.
|
| If it makes another person smile, it was time we'll spent.
| jmholla wrote:
| I think it would be handy to show what sloc is (spire lines of
| code). I had to look it up since I'm used to just loc and I
| could not get my brain to figure out the s this morning.
| j13n wrote:
| Apologies for the confusion. I hope the ambiguity didn't
| detract too much from your enjoyment.
|
| Maybe I could sneak an <abbr> in there for SLOC like I did
| for CSP.
| linuxdude314 wrote:
| I'm really curious where you found "spire lines of code". I
| can't find anything for that in a google search. What does
| that mean?
| linuxdude314 wrote:
| It just means "source lines of code". "losc" sort of makes
| more sense with how we are used to speaking, but it's not as
| easy to pronounce as "sloc".
| bloopernova wrote:
| TMI: I'm stressed, in pain, behind on work, tired from caring
| for my partner, and I have a constant headache because my short
| range work glasses broke forcing me to use a much older pair.
|
| You made me smile and laugh, so I'm grateful for you today.
| Thank you.
| swozey wrote:
| Keep your head up man try to find something to do just for
| you today
| bloopernova wrote:
| Hey thanks for the thoughts, you're pretty great you know?
|
| In good news, my new glasses got delivered today so I'm
| able to eliminate _that_ literal and figurative headache :)
| j13n wrote:
| That's great news re: the glasses -- headaches are
| horrendous!
| j13n wrote:
| You're thoroughly welcome, bloopernova!
|
| Thank you for reading and letting me know I've had a positive
| impact -- it means a lot.
| mjbatty wrote:
| It made me smile, and also made me consider enforcing Q[?] on all
| devs :)
| j13n wrote:
| The Q-quotient will be my legacy... what have I done.
| maccard wrote:
| This is silly.
|
| I love it.
| j13n wrote:
| My favourite review so far! Thank you for the kind words.
| zmgsabst wrote:
| If I submit an empty repo, but have a friend star it, then I'm
| the peak coder?
| heisenbit wrote:
| HN karma/1000 is a good proxy for GitHub stars so you just need
| the repo.
| iraqmtpizza wrote:
| you don't star your own repos? have some self-confidence
| j13n wrote:
| Is this better or worse than laughing at your jokes?
| j13n wrote:
| You'd be a superposition of infinitely capable and the sum type
| of all divide-by-zero errors. Either way, I'd want to work with
| you.
| lioeters wrote:
| No, but I like the hustle. You're hired!
| bombolo wrote:
| No worries, it's full of bots that like random repos to confuse
| the detection systems about the account being a bot.
| bloopernova wrote:
| This is beautiful and hilarious. Thank you for the uplifting on a
| difficult morning.
|
| Now to figure out how to give my best gist[1] a million stars :D
|
| https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b...
| (Making a Nice zsh environment: Quick HOWTO install fzf oh-my-zsh
| powerlevel10k fd ripgrep on MacOS)
|
| PS. Gimme stars! I crave stars!
|
| PPS. More seriously, the 47 stars on that little guide have a
| disproportionate impact on my happiness. Plus some of my most
| respected peers said it was useful to them. The lesson here is
| that you can meaningfully improve our software world without
| writing an ubiquitous and elegant framework or new language.
| Instead, people still need good curated content, guides that glue
| things together, and plain old documentation.
|
| PPPS. So start writing gists and improve project documentation
| with PRs: I believe in you!
| j13n wrote:
| fzf, zsh, rg, and fd all on macOS!? Delectable! Stars++
|
| And more importantly, helping other people out of the goodness
| of your heart.
|
| Thank you for being so generous, fellow earthling!
| noman-land wrote:
| This made me laugh many times.
| j13n wrote:
| Mission accomplished! Happy to hear it.
| RGBCube wrote:
| I think the number of badges in the README also need to be
| included in the formula for Q.
| j13n wrote:
| An astute observation!
|
| More badges being more vain than less, should that push up or
| down one's Q-quotient?
| BrianHenryIE wrote:
| Particularly "license" badges, which just repeat information
| already elsewhere on the main repo page.
| RGBCube wrote:
| Push up, obviously! I mean, more badges is always better...
| right?
| j13n wrote:
| As long as you've got some big numbers, absolutely.
|
| Failing builds and outdated dependencies disappear when
| sitting beside 20K stars and 100K downloads.
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