Regarding the time travel thing: I have this fun little script named git-timeshift that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
DATE="$1"; shift 1
export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(date +%s -d "$DATE")
export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
git "$@"

So I can just type stuff like git timeshift "in 1 hour" commit and the commit (or whatever other command I run) will happen one hour in the future 🤭

Not cool; while the lessons the author wrote are pretty valuable, I advice against this fpr juniors.

May be worth mentioning/reminding people that this only looks good from an initial glance - if someone digs in, clicking through, it can make it obvious that there is only one repo that is there to serve up a commit history. Nonetheless, I have gotten many a compliment in interviews about it!

You can also scaffold out several projects in the language and framework of choice and create a fake history for each of them so that it looks like you're working on some cool things, but none of this will work if someone wants to dig in quickly to see what some of your commits may have actually looked like at some random point in time

Thanks for the "advice".

I'll keep on doing it long form with legit, commented, repo pushes.

To each their own I guess.

Edit: k, yeah I see the "joke" tag now.

Carry on.