[HN Gopher] Rejected GitHub profile achievements ___________________________________________________________________ Rejected GitHub profile achievements Author : kelseyfrog Score : 83 points Date : 2023-07-05 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | xwdv wrote: | These would have been very useful for hiring managers. | twp wrote: | Suggested: | | "The Artist": posted a screenshot of a terminal instead of copy | and pasting the text | | "The Filmmaker": posted an animated GIF of their terminal session | instead of writing out what they did | | Maintainers _love_ artists and filmmakers! | l0b0 wrote: | Self-award time: | | - Procrastinator for at least one vague memory of some high- | faluting idea which never went anywhere beyond creating the repo. | | - Monkey Wrench was sort of inevitable back when working without | feature branches. | | - Patient Skeleton: Sometimes I've pinged people ~yearly for a | good while before realising it's just not happening. | kojiromike wrote: | There are quite a lot of patient skeletons out there. What does | it even take to get AWS to review a botocore PR? | noman-land wrote: | To be honest, I want some of these on my profile. I, for a fact, | am guilty of many of them. Everyone is. | l0b0 wrote: | Suggested: Achievement for excessively locking conversations[1] | | [1] https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile- | achievements... | sondr3 wrote: | 2FU is actually hilarious, I want some of these. | geobmx540 wrote: | These are hilarious, but I see why they might be rejected. | awb wrote: | How about a "Stasis Award" - Tag 1,000 issues as "Won't Fix" | jamespo wrote: | Disappointed not to see my own personal favourite, at least 50 | issues raised for feature requests with no other contributions. | zogomoox wrote: | achievement name: "I'm more of an idea person" or perhaps | "chop-chop" | toyg wrote: | Blue-Sky Thinking | zogomoox wrote: | I propose the "Copium" achievement when you star your own | repository. | ninepoints wrote: | Narcissist might be a bit more appropriate | zogomoox wrote: | at first I thought of "the stranger" but maybe a bit on the | nose. | guessmyname wrote: | Clarification: none of these were achievements rejected by | GitHub, simply humorous ideas from a developer known as "flet" | with no affiliation to GitHub. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-05 23:00 UTC)