What does it feel to have 1,000 GitHub contributions in 2021.

In 2021, I have reached a huge milestone on my GitHub account, where I’ve raised my GitHub contribution count from 424 in 2020 to a whopping 1,109 contribution in 2021!

That’s almost three times than last year. However, some of them were automated commits, so we can simply assume that I’ve done 1,000 contributions instead.

Please note that GitHub’s contribution count includes commits, pull requests, opened issues and code reviews. So, a thousand contributions does not always mean a thousand Git commits.

Of course, a majority of this count comes from Git commits, and I’ve wished I would be more professional in creating new commits. This is because about 20% of those commits are based on the following pseudocode:

do {
  change_code();
  commit(); push();
  deploy();
} while (issue_exists);

And yes, this is definitely not a good practice; you should test the code on your local setup before deploying it to the server, even though it’s for staging. In many times I was lazy to set up the app in my local machine since again, it could take much time to set up before continue coding.

But the rest? I feel 2021 is a great, productive year for me. The tldr-pages project contributes a great sum of contributions (commits, PRs, reviews) to my own profile. And since I’ve successfully convinced more people to use Git and GitHub instead of ZIP files and Google Drive (no, really) for coding projects, my contributions from those private repositories can be carried forward to this awesome, contribution graph.

Meanwhile in the world of robots…

Starting today, I’m officially delegating my automated commits to @1010bots on GitHub and GitLab. Even though the username has been taken in Instagram and Twitter, this might be a good time for you to follow my group of robotic friends and family on:

GitHub

Gitlab

Next, I’ll be removing any references to the Virtual Environment , aka. our home address, since it may conflict with virtualenv from the world of Python. At the end, we’re happy to work and sleep from not one, but five physical locations:

• My home in Jakarta, Indonesia,
• My office in Jakarta, Indonesia,
• DigitalOcean’s Singapore data center (SGP-1),
• Niagahoster’ Singapore data center (which powers reinhart1010.id today),
• And anywhere which GitHub Actions would take us to. Yes, some of us today have become true digital nomads.

You’ll start to see commits on 1010bots shortly on my automated commits for my tldr-pages web client named after Nix. But too late, they have committed several hours ago. And soon, I’ll be syncing my GitHub commits with OpenStreetMap changesets and my I Love My Bible (GMS Church) streaks, so our contribution graph can finally reflect my true productivity rate in the future.

I might also want to create a competition to beautify our @1010bots GitHub README file and our official website at bots.reinhart1010.id. But we’ll, that would be another story to tell. Thanks for your support to make achieve this amazing goal, and I hope we can create 2,022 contributions this year.

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