GitHub Zen API(api.github.com)

97 pointsby bencevans13 yıl önce52 comments

api.github.com

https://api.github.com/zen

53 comments

After curl-ing for a while in a loop, and sort -u:

  Anything added dilutes everything else.
  Approachable is better than simple.
  Avoid administrative distraction.
  Design for failure.
  Encourage flow.
  Favor focus over features.
  Half measures are as bad as nothing at all.
  It's not fully shipped until it's fast.
  Keep it logically awesome.
  Mind your words, they are important.
  Non-blocking is better than blocking.
  Practicality beats purity.
  Responsive is better than fast.
  Speak like a human.

peterjmag13 yıl önce

Got the same list after about 100 authenticated requests: https://gist.github.com/peterjmag/6551440

jlgaddis13 yıl önce

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/

bryogenic13 yıl önce

Great fun with cowsay

  $ curl https://api.github.com/zen -s | cowsay

   _____________________
  < Speak like a human. >
   --------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

cobychapple13 yıl önce

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~~~~
        ~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~
         ~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~
             :~==~==~==~==~~

You can also append `?s="your message here"` to use it to say something other than one of the GitHub Zen messages.

Touche13 yıl önce

Awesome, aliasing this as cowzen.

gizzlon13 yıl önce

Have you seen that it comes with other examples?

     ls /usr/share/cowsay | xargs -n1 -I{} cowsay -f {} foo | less

Some of them are.. well..

"Cow Operation"? WTF

seiji13 yıl önce

Best ones: vomit cow and Kosh.

Kosh works exceptionally well with tiny zen sayings.

    ______________________________________ 
   < Mind your words, they are important. >
    -------------------------------------- 
       \
        \
         \
     ___       _____     ___
    /   \     /    /|   /   \
   |     |   /    / |  |     |
   |     |  /____/  |  |     |     
   |     |  |    |  |  |     |
   |     |  | {} | /   |     |
   |     |  |____|/    |     |
   |     |    |==|     |     |
   |      \___________/      |
   |                         |
   |                         |

angersock13 yıl önce

whoa whoa whoa there is a command-line vorlon available? what?

jlgaddis13 yıl önce

    $ 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

angersock13 yıl önce

On Debian, how do I get all these magnificent cows?

joshuacc13 yıl önce

Once you have cowsay installed, you can invoke them with cowsay -f.

For instance: cowsay -f kosh "Understanding is a three-edged sword."

evilduck13 yıl önce

sudo apt-get install cowsay

Cows are installed to /usr/share/cowsay/cows

jlgaddis13 yıl önce

> Great fun with cowsay

... and ponysay: http://i.imgur.com/Df09hpV.png

Smirnoff13 yıl önce

What are these things called? And how do I make one and append into my code?

talles13 yıl önce

Great idea, gonna put it in my bashrc (:

brbcoding13 yıl önce

Never realized there was an emojis api too... https://api.github.com/emojis

gizzlon13 yıl önce

Surprisingly profound: Anything added dilutes everything else

samatman13 yıl önce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chatelier's_principle

nfzufxjlidp13 yıl önce

Of course this is false if you add more of the same. ;)

IceyEC13 yıl önce

except that it still DOES dilute everything except the thing that was added

jxfgdxjvmhf13 yıl önce

no.

jlgaddis13 yıl önce

    $ 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 room

RobAley13 yıl önce

The 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!

burgeralarm13 yıl önce

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.

nekgrim13 yıl önce

"Non-blocking is better than blocking."

You don't say.

technoweenie13 yıl önce

FWIW this is not a statement about programming (node.js vs ruby or whatever)

VeejayRampay13 yıl önce

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?

seiji13 yıl önce

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.

technoweenie13 yıl önce

Oh right! I meant to say Go vs Node.js. Only one walks away.

seiji13 yıl önce

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!"

webignition13 yıl önce

How can you be sure? Just curious, not saying you're wrong.

kdaigle13 yıl önce

technoweenie works at GitHub :)

talles13 yıl önce

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.").

arjunbajaj13 yıl önce

$ npm install github-zens -g

$ zen

A Node Module which prints the zens (offline list). https://github.com/arjunbajaj/github-zens

ismaelc13 yıl önce

https://www.mashape.com/community/github-zen#!documentation

Void_13 yıl önce

If you wanna read short messages from which you won't benefit in any way, might as well try:

http://whatthecommit.com

leddt13 yıl önce

Is this used anywhere at all, or is it just an easter egg ?

andmarios13 yıl önce

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.

cliveowen13 yıl önce

"Responsive is better than fast."

I don't agree with this.

btown13 yıl önce

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.

derefr13 yıl önce

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.

manojlds13 yıl önce

But that doesn't mean it is better than fast. I would say "if not fast, be responsive"

ihsw13 yıl önce

I think the message is this: fast is an impossible standard to meet since there will always be inconsistent user experiences, so aim to be responsive before being fast.

lnanek213 yıl önce

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.

opiumden13 yıl önce

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.

hrjet13 yıl önce

ionice[1] is even better for this use-case.

  [1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/ionice.1.html

arscan13 yıl önce

Not 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.

easytiger13 yıl önce

When you think about it, it doesn't even make sense.

Spoygg13 yıl önce

I don't.

odiroot13 yıl önce

Check response headers. Pretty strict rate limiting.

taf213 yıl önce

it just says "design for failure" ?

[edit] okay i get it refreshing gives another message etc. etc.

losethos13 yıl önce