This tool displays a message on your Github contributions calendar.
message: 😀LOL❤, intensity: 5
The contributions calendar/graph on a Github profile is a heatmap that shows the daily commit history (and other github contributions) of a user. Displayed in a calendar grid format, it is a visualization of a user's activity on Github, with brighter squares indicating higher activity on a particular day. It's meant to be a record of a user's contributions over the past year.
The trick is to backdate commits. Commits light up the day of their commit date, which can be adjusted using the GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variable. This tool maps the "pixels" of the message to the corresponding days on the calendar grid. Dummy commits are backdated and pushed to a dummy repo, and Github renders the message on the contributions calendar accordingly.
Delete the dummy-repo-github-graphiti repository. As soon as it is deleted, the dummy commits are removed from the calendar.
No. The commits are made to, and removed from, a dummy repository only. They paint over your real contributions without removing them.
- Prerequisites: Your github personal access token is set in the
$GH_TOKENenvironment variable. You can create a token here. You also have installedgo. - Clone this repository.
cdinto the repo. - Edit
config.toml- Set the
messagefield to your desired message. - Set
intensityto control the brightness of painted days. Choose a value higher than your highest daily commit count to make the message more visible. - Set
githubUserto your github username.
- Set the
- Run
go run .. Check your contributions calendar to see the message.
Uppercase letters, ❤, !, ., and 😀. Also, an empty space.
If you would like to support a new character, please add it to characters.go and open a PR, or ask me nicely.
Playing with the BBC micro:bit v2, and making designs on its 5 x 5 LED grid.