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5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

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# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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James Sugrue [asked][1], "@GitHubAPI is there a way to find the number of stars for a given repository?"

Example

$ curl -ni "https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=more+useful+keyboard" -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview'

{

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curl https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom/stargazers -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.star+json'

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The Lean Startup - Notes, Quotes, and Choice Snippets

The Lean Startup

Characteristics of a lean startup:

1. Uses "platforms enabled by open source and free software."

2. Agile development

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About

This gist is a collection of my rough notes from Strange Loop 2012.

@jasonrudolph on Twitter | @jasonrudolph on GitHub

Did I Mention That They're Rough?

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Repository redirects are coming to the GitHub API, and this functionality is now available for developers to preview. Let's try it out.

First, we need a repository that has been renamed or relocated. Since jasonrudolph/jasonrudolph.github.io was previously named jasonrudolph/jasonrudolph.com, we can use it as our guinea pig. 🌍🐖

We'll use curl for all of our examples below, and we'll include the --location option to instruct curl to follow any redirects that it encounters.

The Present

Using the current production version of the GitHub API, when we attempt to [access the repository](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get

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Sample timings (in seconds)

Sample timings using Heroku CI for a small-ish Rails 6 app on various Heroku dyno types:

Dyno Type	Run 1 Duration	Run 2 Duration	Run 3 Duration	Average Duration
standard-1x	312	213	303	276
standard-2x	227	121	222	190
performance-m	162	164	175	167
performance-l	100	104	107	104

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curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.star+json" https://api.github.com/users/glaforge/starred