This is a quick post about the punch card feature on GitHub. This is available from Graphs within each repo and is also directly accessible via the API.
I was looking at the punch card for two of my projects: one is work related and the other, more of a kind of hobby. The punch cards were different (the work one had way more commits, 99, than the hobby, 22). There was an interesting pattern to them. Here they are overlaid. Green is the work repo. Purple is the hobby.
It says something about my working day. There’s times when I don’t do any committing, i.e. weekends during the day and most early evenings. What was interesting was that I was pretty stringent about doing hobby stuff only at set times: first thing over a coffee, over lunch, or in the evenings.
As self analysis goes, this is pretty lightweight compared to this terrifying post by Stephen Wolfram.
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The post title is taken from “Calendars and Clocks” from The Coral’s debut LP