● Gitminder

238 2026-07-24 note

My old /github BeeminderA commitment device: set a numeric goal, draw a yellow brick road toward it on a graph, and pay real money if you fall off. The two goals riding on this repo, one on commit count and one on cumulative… goal tracked commits across every repository on GitHub, until GitHub's API changed to only allow tracking one repository at a time. Most active projects had already moved to GitLab and Source.tube anyway.

The repository of this site acts as the replacement for that. Tracking the commits, but also tracking the word count with URLminderA Beeminder integration that counts the words at any publicly accessible URL, normally used with Google Docs. Raw HTML inflates the count, but it's accurate with plain text, which is the reason /urlminder.txt exists as a route on this site,….

This note started life as a dead linkThe first entry. This site exists for gitminder as the daily-commit driver for two Beeminder goals, and it leans on wiki-links ,like colour-theory to connect ideas as they accumulate, in the tradition of a digital garden more than a blog.[^1]… and was itself generated as a stubA problem that wiki-linked digital garden run into is figuring out what happens when you reference a note that doesn't exist on disk yet. A traditional website would 404. This site turns it into a stub instead. A stub is… before being filled in.