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James Baster
Personal blog · jarofgreen.co.ukprogrammingweb
James Baster's personal blog at jarofgreen.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post in a thread on personal git commit statistics. The post covers a tool that gathers commit stats, such as commits by hour of day and day of week. The one comment cites it while pointing to Mercurial's churn extension.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-06
What Hacker News says?
Android 4.0: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screensho... In fact, I see this so much here's a blog post about it: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/06/fixed-page-elements-must-die...
Comment linking /2012/06/fixed-page-elements-must-die/
on “JQuery++”Submitted Let’s put phone numbers in the DNS system (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't like any solution that means the user personally has to deal with IPs. The abstraction away from IP's to names is a brilliant feature with all kinds of benefits, and one other areas should be looking at. I even recently proposed a quick hack for the phone system: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/07/phone-numbers-in-dns/ :-) Also just wanted to point out that your solution 1 needs to incorporate the use case that…
Comment linking /2012/07/phone-numbers-in-dns/
on “The Web Is Unsustainable”Submitted Adults wanting to learn to code? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI blogged a response: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2013/05/why-programmers-should-learn... Basically, I think it's important to teach Git (or other Version Control) to students because what you are really teaching them is good development practices. These take time to learn and get used to and Uni's absolutely should be teaching them. The whole issue of "students should be able to teach themselves git" is a bit of a red…
Comment linking /2013/05/why-programmers-should-learn-git/
on “Version Control and Higher Education”This comment is so good I quoted it with citation, hope you don't mind. http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2013/05/why-programmers-should-learn...
Comment linking /2013/05/why-programmers-should-learn-git/
on “Version Control and Higher Education”Actually you are still rate limited when using OAuth credentials, it's just a higher rate. If you can get users to log-in to your app and can then call the API with many different credentials it does help a lot tho. I did a twitter hack at a recent hackday, and had massive problems with this. :-) http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/04/flocklight/ (It's Open Source if anyone wants to help)
Comment linking /2012/04/flocklight/
on “Twitter Mutual Followers and Unfollows - A Quick Hack”> http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/ hg has a pretty great extension shipped with it doing that kind of stats collecting: churn. Git might have something similar already, no? For instance, your graphs 2 and 3 (commits by hour of day and commits by day of week) can be obtained through the following (tested on pypy's repo): > hg -R pypy churn -csf "%H" 00 850 ************** 01 534 ********* 02 38…
Comment linking /2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/
on “Personal Git Commit Statistics”I once spent a weekend hacking together something like this. http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/ The code was done over several quick sessions (there's a visualisation of that in the link above) so it's really scrappy, but it pulls out the timestamps of a programmers commits and presents that in several different formats. It uses Github API or just SVN log. https://github.com/jarofgreen/CreepyCo…
Comment linking /2011/04/introducing-creepycoder/
on “Personal Git Commit Statistics”