This may sound like a pointless project, but truth is, we all love to differentiate ourselves from others, and perhaps you might like to have this small touch on your GitHub page.
This open source CLI, available as an npm module, gives you the ability to "spray" your GH profile page.
The naming idea comes from Counter Strike, where you could spray walls with your custom image, it was very popular, to the point that a very famous technique was to spray a sexy half naked lady on a wall to drag enemies' attention and annihilate them while their defenses were lowered.
With this tool, you can draw on your 53 by 7 pixels calendar heatmap which is displayed on your profile.
It already contains several fonts so that you can easily write text.
$ github-spray -t hello
Otherwise, you can be more creative and design your own pattern.
$ github-spray -f my_octocat_heart_smiley_pattern.json
I made an handy web app to ease the creation.
It has numerous of options such as specifying the start date, the font, invert colors, adjust colors, flip horizontally or vertically the spray, set a repo origin url and push to it.
You only live once, go for it: GitHub Spray ๐ค
Btw, the spray isn't permanent, you can delete it by removing the repo ๐
Edit: Huge thanks to DEV Community for making the repo appear on the GitHub Javascript trending page, I love you guys!! <3
Top comments (8)
This is a fun and well-executed take on this kind of thing.
Hey thank you so much for the kind words, coming from such an high profile I really appreciate it! :)
+1 for Counter Strike, also this is neat!
Hehe thanks, here is the said technique: imgur.com/w5fwbIr ๐
of course! I played it so much back in the day. sometimes people would get banned from servers for having inappropriate sprays, I'm glad to see your 'sprays' are more tasteful!
I was afraid of losing the history but that's a relief ๐
Haha, this is awesome! I had no idea you could do this. Thanks!
Crazy!