GitHub Zen API(api.github.com)
api.github.com
GitHub Zen API
https://api.github.com/zen
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After curl-ing for a while in a loop, and sort -u:
Got the same list after about 100 authenticated requests: https://gist.github.com/peterjmag/6551440
You could turn these into a data file for fortune[0].
I currently use the "Cluefire and Damnation"[1] fortunes and pipe it into ponysay[2] at login.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29
[1]: http://www.cluefire.net/
[2]: https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/
I currently use the "Cluefire and Damnation"[1] fortunes and pipe it into ponysay[2] at login.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29
[1]: http://www.cluefire.net/
[2]: https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/
Great fun with cowsay
$ curl https://api.github.com/zen -s | cowsay
_____________________
< Speak like a human. >
--------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||See also:
$ curl https://api.github.com/octocat
MMM. .MMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM _____________________
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | |
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | Speak like a human. |
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM |_ _________________|
MMMM::- -:::::::- -::MMMM |/
MM~:~ ~:::::~ ~:~MM
.. MMMMM::. .:::+:::. .::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~~~~
~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~
~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~
:~==~==~==~==~~
Awesome, aliasing this as cowzen.
Have you seen that it comes with other examples?
"Cow Operation"? WTF
ls /usr/share/cowsay | xargs -n1 -I{} cowsay -f {} foo | less
"Cow Operation"? WTF
Best ones: vomit cow and Kosh.
Kosh works exceptionally well with tiny zen sayings.
Kosh works exceptionally well with tiny zen sayings.
______________________________________
< Mind your words, they are important. >
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/ \ / /| / \
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| |whoa whoa whoa there is a command-line vorlon available? what?
$ ls /usr/share/cows/
beavis.zen.cow dragon-and-cow.cow hellokitty.cow moofasa.cow sodomized.cow turtle.cow
bong.cow dragon.cow kiss.cow moose.cow stegosaurus.cow tux.cow
bud-frogs.cow elephant.cow kitty.cow mutilated.cow stimpy.cow udder.cow
bunny.cow elephant-in-snake.cow koala.cow ren.cow supermilker.cow vader.cow
cheese.cow eyes.cow kosh.cow satanic.cow surgery.cow vader-koala.cow
cower.cow flaming-sheep.cow luke-koala.cow sheep.cow telebears.cow www.cow
daemon.cow ghostbusters.cow meow.cow skeleton.cow three-eyes.cow
default.cow head-in.cow milk.cow small.cow turkey.cow> Great fun with cowsay
... and ponysay: http://i.imgur.com/Df09hpV.png
... and ponysay: http://i.imgur.com/Df09hpV.png
What are these things called? And how do I make one and append into my code?
Great idea, gonna put it in my bashrc (:
Never realized there was an emojis api too... https://api.github.com/emojis
Surprisingly profound: Anything added dilutes everything else
Of course this is false if you add more of the same. ;)
$ grep bofh .bash_aliases
alias bofh="nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/Your excuse is: //'"
$ bofh
The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine roomThe comments below demonstrate that, while cute, virtually all of the statements it comes up with are entirely subjective, quite superficial, totally ambiguous, and useless for most things.
Great conversation starter though!
Great conversation starter though!
This reminds me of a small project I tossed together:
http://git-fortune.bclune.org
It grabs a random commit message from a github repo and displays it. By default, it pulls from a repo containing the original debian fortunes as commit messages. But you can point it to other repos like this:
http://git-fortune.bclune.org/twbs/bootstrap
Inspired by What the Commit? and /usr/bin/fortune.
http://git-fortune.bclune.org
It grabs a random commit message from a github repo and displays it. By default, it pulls from a repo containing the original debian fortunes as commit messages. But you can point it to other repos like this:
http://git-fortune.bclune.org/twbs/bootstrap
Inspired by What the Commit? and /usr/bin/fortune.
"Non-blocking is better than blocking."
You don't say.
You don't say.
FWIW this is not a statement about programming (node.js vs ruby or whatever)
I wonder who would naturally equate blocking to Ruby specifically. Or non-blocking to Node.js for that matter.
Is Node.js VS Ruby even a thing?
Is Node.js VS Ruby even a thing?
They're in constant battle for the hipster programmer crowd. Ruby is too old for "I used it before it was cool," but node is kinda still there.
Oh right! I meant to say Go vs Node.js. Only one walks away.
Go has a weird subset of admin/programmer people who haven't discovered erlang and think they are too good for C.
Node has a weird subset of web people who haven't discovered erlang and think they are too good for deploying a message/job dispatch queue with python or ruby.
If you want to be really bored with all these "modern" programming advancements, learn erlang and lisp and smalltalk. Everything is just reinventing their aspects over and over and over again targeted to audiences as "new new new!"
Node has a weird subset of web people who haven't discovered erlang and think they are too good for deploying a message/job dispatch queue with python or ruby.
If you want to be really bored with all these "modern" programming advancements, learn erlang and lisp and smalltalk. Everything is just reinventing their aspects over and over and over again targeted to audiences as "new new new!"
How can you be sure? Just curious, not saying you're wrong.
technoweenie works at GitHub :)
Is there anything related to the zen of python?
I got "practicality beats purity", that is in it ("Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity.").
I got "practicality beats purity", that is in it ("Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity.").
$ npm install github-zens -g
$ zen
A Node Module which prints the zens (offline list). https://github.com/arjunbajaj/github-zens
$ zen
A Node Module which prints the zens (offline list). https://github.com/arjunbajaj/github-zens
If you wanna read short messages from which you won't benefit in any way, might as well try:
http://whatthecommit.com
http://whatthecommit.com
Is this used anywhere at all, or is it just an easter egg ?
I had made something like that with fortune and php many-many years ago.
I wonder if GitHub has a static list of quotes (like fortune does) or they generate them dynamically.
I wonder if GitHub has a static list of quotes (like fortune does) or they generate them dynamically.
"Responsive is better than fast."
I don't agree with this.
I don't agree with this.
I assume it's not a reference to responsive ("self-resizing") HTML, but rather things like user input lag (a common problem in apps.) Better to have a zero-lag async calculation than a nominally faster but UI-blocking synchronous calculation or request.
I think it's actually meant to encourage putting up things like spinners, page transitions, etc. Make the user feel that something is happening, and they won't feel slowed down.
I agree with it very much. When I'm zipping files on Linux and my system grinds to a halt due to hard drive contention, I don't want faster zip times, I just want the damn thing to be responsive while it zips in the background.
If you're running zip from the command line, try setting the priority with 'nice' when you run it. That should allow you to continue using your system while zip crunches away in the background. If you forget to set the priority level at runtime, use 'renice' to set the priority level of a running process.
ionice[1] is even better for this use-case.
[1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/ionice.1.htmlNot that there is any right answer here (that's the whole point), but my interpretation is less a technical one than the ones suggested so far.
Being fast gets you to far away places, but being responsive gets you places where you want to be.
Being fast gets you to far away places, but being responsive gets you places where you want to be.
When you think about it, it doesn't even make sense.
I don't.
Check response headers.
Pretty strict rate limiting.
it just says "design for failure" ?
[edit] okay i get it refreshing gives another message etc. etc.
[edit] okay i get it refreshing gives another message etc. etc.