Song of GitHub

[ajacksified]

Author here. Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues.

This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests from some really talented developers; rpflorence, phuu, and everyone else with issues and pull requests. This is what makes open source so cool. https://github.com/ajacksified/song-of-github/contributors

Also, Midi.js is really fun to play with. http://mudcu.be/midi-js/

Obligatory song link: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ajacksified

[RyanMcGreal]

A lament: https://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=aaronsw

How fitting that it ends on a discordant note.

[Mahn]

Doesn't seem to work anymore, I guess the autor removed it?

[leftnode]

This is great, I love small hacks like these!

I would love to be able to authorize it with my Github account so it can read my contributions to my private repository. All around great work.

[ajacksified]

Great idea; I've heard it a few times. I actually built this against an undocumented API call; if you watch the network tab when you open up GitHub, it makes an ajax request for JSON. I replicated that request with https.get on the server, then dump that json out on the page (to get around CORS problems.)

I think they're using sessions to determine if you're logged in / authenticated; so I'd need to either see if I can just pass in an oauth token and see what happens, wait for them to build an API around it, or just do the work of combing the repositories and build the data manually.

[stevelaz]

I second that :)

[sunils34]

The song of linux. http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=torvalds

[deanclatworthy]

The song of bootstrap: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=mdo

Very nice :)

[xentronium]

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=michaelklishin another good one

[charonn0]

Melancholy; melodic but listless; in turns sporadic and frenetic; all too brief, and all too incomplete.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=charonn0

[Mahn]

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=antirez <- best one I heard so far :-) this thing is fun.

[Mahn]

Also, it's just me or does MIDI.js have the potential to lead the renaissance of midi music on the internet? I had almost forgotten midi files existed if it weren't for this lib.

[pavel_lishin]

It's going to lead to someone writing a MIDIBlock extension for Chrome, which I will happily install alongside FlashBlock and AdBlock.

[irok]

TJ's song http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=visionmedia

[afshinmeh]

LOL!

[wyuenho]

I like how mind sounds. Sounds like a lone explorer searching for programming nirvana for a year, got disappointed for a little bit, and then eventually rediscovered the joy of programming again.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=wyuenho

This is really really nicely done. Thanks for this. This made my day.

[fmax30]

Woah , the music generated is beautiful looks like some sort of computational creativity. Trovalds's song is depressing , http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=torvalds

[burkemw3]

My public github is pretty sad, so I wired this up for GitHub Enterprise (https://github.com/burkemw3/song-of-github) and like my song much better now.

[cpfohl]

Mine was disappointing, but here's a pretty one:

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=jashkenas

[chinchang]

Awesome stuff man! mine is very boring: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=chinchang :P

[DanKnox]

Best one yet by far... http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=sferik

[damncabbage]

This is pretty good: http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=radar

[seleucia]

Congratulations, Just a musician can think that :)

[joeblau]

LOL, my song is the saddest song I've ever heard. It sounds like the score to a point a play where the protagonist loses everything.

[basicallydan]

This is absolutely brilliant, well done.

[sdoering]

Great idea, great thing to have fun with. And a great motivation, to contribute more in the future... ;-)