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GitHub has quite a few Easter eggs hidden deep in the code. This post highlights a few of them - well, 6 to be exact!
Did you know: The phrase "Easter egg" was first coined in 1979 by Steve Wright, Director of Software Development at Atari. If you saw the movie Ready Player One, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Here's the scene where they uncover the world's first Easter egg in the classic game 'Adventure':
1. Easy as pi
I don't think there's a language that doesn't have the value for pi in it's standard/math library. But if Google is down, and you forget your high school math, you can always point your browser to a https://github.com/π.
There you'll get an ASCII art representation of Pi correct to 336 decimal places! Handy huh?
3.141592653589793238462643383279 5028841971693993751058209749445923 07816406286208998628034825342117067 9821 48086 5132 823 06647 0938446 09550 5822317 25359 4081 2848 1117 4502 8410 2701 9385 21105 55964 46229 48954 9303 81964 4288 10975 66593 34461 284756 48233 78678 31652 71 2019091 456485 66 9234603 48610454326648 2133936 0726024914127 3724587 00660631558 817488 152092096 Via https://github.com/Legend-of-iPhoenix/ascii-pi
I believe you'll also get other representations to π by adding file extensions like .json or jpeg. Mmmm... pie.
2. Octocats in the system
Speaking of ASCII art, did you know there's an API endpoint for Mona, GitHub's Octocat mascot? Curl or visit https://api.github.com/octocat in a browser:
curl https://api.github.com/octocat MMM. .MMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ____________________________ MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | | MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | Keep it logically awesome. | MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM |_ ________________________| MMMM::- -:::::::- -::MMMM |/ MM~:~ 00~:::::~ 00~:~MM .. MMMMM::.00:::+:::.00::MMMMM .. .MM::::: ._. :::::MM. MMMM;:::::;MMMM -MM MMMMMMM ^ M+ MMMMMMMMM MMMMMMM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM .~~MM~MM~MM~MM~~. ~~~~MM:~MM~~~MM~:MM~~~~ ~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~ ~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~ :~==~==~==~==~~
That speech bubble contains a little bit of GitHub Zen that my buddy @benbalter explains in this blog post.
🚨 WARNING: Be careful if you curl ASCII art (or anything for that matter) off of the internet. Turns out that some ASCII art is executable! 🤯
3. Everything zen
After a long day staring at a dark terminal, GitHub CLI users can take a deep breath, and take a walk through their repository's roguelike garden with gh repo garden. You can even navigate with vi keys!
Each flower is represented by the first letter of the committer's GitHub username, and the color of each flower is the first 6 characters of the commit's SHA interpreted as a hex code.
Eg. commit b6b3d26ee50fc6540e1796d8bdc563d22da44ba5 would be #b6b3d2 (a nice lilac color). Thistle do nicely 👌
4. Spruced-up user profiles
It's not exactly a secret secret, but you you can customize your user profile by adding a special repo named after your username:
With a little a bit of Markdown and an image or two, it's a great way to tell people about yourself, show what you're working on, etc.
If you're looking for some inspiration, check out this post featuring ten standout profile READMEs.
5. Spooktacular contributions
Once every year your contributions graph will look even more spooktacular as those lovely shades of green turn... halloweeny (is that a word?).
6. Viewing your contributions... 80s style
If you haven't stumbled upon it yet, GitHub Skyline is a cool little visualization of your contributions for a given year. Look at mine from 2020 for example. You can download those Skylines as .stl files to print, purchase physical copies of them, and/or explore them in virtual reality.
To activate the Easter egg, enter the Konami Code once a Skyline has loaded and you'll be transported back even further in time...
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ←→ B A
Kudos to @carlesnunez for discovering it:
Carles Núñez Tomeo
@carlesnunez
Skyline is a cool website from @github but you know what's cooler than that?
Finding that the website have a Konami code on its source code. Go to skyline.github.com and press the next sequence:
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱🅰
Voilà! You will see the chart with a shader!!!!!
21:57 PM - 17 Feb 2021
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Lee Reilly
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Not sure if they all work, but there are some vanilla JS, Vue, Gatsby, and more plugins for adding the Konami code to your site @ github.com/topics/konami-code and github.com/search?q=konami+code <3
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Note that github.com/π.avi replies a 406 error code: Not acceptable. First time I see that error code ^^
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Will see about 301 redirecting .avi, .mp4, etc. to github.co/video 🤘🏻
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🤘🤘 Secrets aren't fun unless you share with everyone 😜
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super cool
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Dope stuff, as always!
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I made a GitHub repo for this page :)
git.io/eastereggs
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Amazing!
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These are super cool!
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