Weekly Commits: Making GitHub Activity Beautiful on Your Desktop

Summary: Sometimes the best projects aren’t the ones you start from scratch, but the ones that speak to you so deeply that you can’t help but make them better.

When Code Calls to You There are projects you build, and then there are projects that find you. Weekly Commits was the latter. I discovered this GNOME Shell extension while browsing through GitHub one evening, looking for ways to make my Linux desktop more productive. The concept was beautiful in its simplicity: transform your GitHub contribution activity into a colorful widget that lives right in your desktop’s top bar. Seven little boxes, each representing a day of the week, glowing with diffe…

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