It is no secret that I dislike GitHub.
The "contributions" metric staring at me any time I load some GitHub users' page is just one of the many reasons why; like some friggin Black Mirror overly gamified dystopia.
Cue: @nprofile1q... tune "Metrics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDqTXlNaW4 for accompanying music (and lyrics especially).
Sometimes, I wonder if my "132 contributions in the last year" number would be higher if I:
Weren't homeless.
Had a livable wage.
Were being paid to work on others' software and systems (as I have done for much of my career; admittedly, in private, not shared on GitHub for the world to see, because that's not how private corporate work is).
Yet, I see some others who have things like "1000 contributions in the last year" and whoa, is that a "10X Engineer"?!
Only, I see most of their code is written in higher level languages which on average are 60X slower than what I tend to focus on (their Python, vs my C or whatever) so, no.
Still 1000-2000 contributions a YEAR seems like a LOT, that's multiple commits to GitHub every day!
Goddamn.
Horrifyingly, I found a MacPorts maintainer who has in EXCESS of 9000 contributions over the last year!
Do they sleep? When do they have time to fit in eating or exercise, or not staring at a screen!?
Even if it were only 9000 contributions in a year, that's more than 24 commits a day. A commit, every hour every day?!
It's inhuman. Not inhumane, like literally, no human should be pushing that much code.
It's not superhuman. Something is wrong.
GitHub is so horrible.
The "contributions" metric staring at me any time I load some GitHub users' page is just one of the many reasons why; like some friggin Black Mirror overly gamified dystopia.
Cue: @nprofile1q... tune "Metrics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDqTXlNaW4 for accompanying music (and lyrics especially).
Sometimes, I wonder if my "132 contributions in the last year" number would be higher if I:
Weren't homeless.
Had a livable wage.
Were being paid to work on others' software and systems (as I have done for much of my career; admittedly, in private, not shared on GitHub for the world to see, because that's not how private corporate work is).
Yet, I see some others who have things like "1000 contributions in the last year" and whoa, is that a "10X Engineer"?!
Only, I see most of their code is written in higher level languages which on average are 60X slower than what I tend to focus on (their Python, vs my C or whatever) so, no.
Still 1000-2000 contributions a YEAR seems like a LOT, that's multiple commits to GitHub every day!
Goddamn.
Horrifyingly, I found a MacPorts maintainer who has in EXCESS of 9000 contributions over the last year!
Do they sleep? When do they have time to fit in eating or exercise, or not staring at a screen!?
Even if it were only 9000 contributions in a year, that's more than 24 commits a day. A commit, every hour every day?!
It's inhuman. Not inhumane, like literally, no human should be pushing that much code.
It's not superhuman. Something is wrong.
GitHub is so horrible.
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