Chapter 178 The boss is actually me

Unknowingly, the time has arrived at 10pm on the 24th.

Lin Hui decided to take a rest. Before that, Lin Hui thought he would reply to the email.

This has become Lin Hui's routine before going to bed.

I received a lot of emails in my mailbox, but Lin Hui was immediately attracted by an avatar with a unique yet extremely familiar style.

White cat on black background?

(ps:...the statement here is based on the classic image of the website. In fact, I have forgotten what GitHub’s email avatar looked like in 2014)

Email from GitHub?

Lin Hui was not surprised that GitHub knew Lin Hui's email address.

After all, Lin Hui has reserved email addresses in many places under different identities.

GitHub is a hosting platform for open source and private software projects.

Because it only supports Git as the only repository format for hosting, it is named GitHub.

Simply put, GitHub is a source code version management tool.

It is also the largest code storage website and open source community in the world.

GitHub as a website.

Because there are a large number of programmers on it, it was even once called the largest gay dating website in the world...

This statement is slightly biased, but in any case GitHub is also a good platform for work, learning and communication.

When Lin Hui came to this space-time development project and had no inspiration, he still wanted to go to GitHub to read the speeches of the big guys to find inspiration for the project.

But unexpectedly, I learned that GitHub would be suspended for a period of time after the website upgrade suffered a DNS hijack.

Lin Hui was still very sorry at that time.

Now GitHub actually sent Lin Hui another email.

Could it be that GitHub has finally returned to normal operations in this time and space?

I clicked on the email and saw that it was true.

It turns out that GitHub will officially resume operations at 22:30 BJ time on the 24th.

This is certainly a good thing.

A world where GitHub is shut down will be somewhat unfamiliar to a practitioner like Lin Hui who is obsessed with technology.

This email also called GRAY FOREST one of the fastest growing technicians in the world in the past six months.

The email was full of praise for Lin Hui and urged Lin Hui to register an account and verify it. If Lin Hui

If Lin Hui does not come to the GitHub family, it will be a loss for GitHub...

The letter was signed by Tom Preston Warner, and Lin Hui remembered that this person was the president of GitHub.

Is it okay if the president personally sends the registration invitation and certification invitation?

I used to think about going up there to watch the big boss speak, but now I see that the big boss is actually me.

Because of some habits in his previous life, Lin Hui has a pretty good impression of GitHub.

Moreover, when my career started in this life, the two projects "Life Restart Simulator" and "2048" are inextricably linked to the website GitHub in my previous life.

In this case, it is naturally no problem to register an account and authenticate it.

Lin Hui responded to GitHub’s invitation.

Lin Hui then responded to some other emails.

When the time came to 22:30, Lin Hui logged into GitHub on time.

Lin Hui saw the two sentences that were once so familiar:

"Welcome to GitHub!"

"Let's start a fantastic adventure!"

For a moment, Lin Hui felt like he was out of place in time and space, wondering when he could buy GitHub.

It’s not about profit, it’s just about love.

However, Lin Hui seems to be unable to afford it at the moment.

Lin Hui remembered that Microsoft bought Maomao.com in 2018 for approximately US$7.5 billion in stock.

In this way, Lin Hui can also start a company and increase the company's valuation.

In this way, there is no need to use cash in many cases, and you can directly use stocks.

This can greatly reduce dependence on cash flow.

Lin Hui registered an account on GitHub and completed the corresponding certification.

As for the certification content, it is natural to use Lin Hui’s most familiar vest “GRAY FOREST”.

Of course, it’s just a matter of completing the certification.

Lin Hui did not write additional words such as "Developing "Life Restart Simulator", "2048", etc. as he did before on Weibo and Twitter.

These things that have been developed may have helped Lin Hui a lot.

But these are all things of the past.

Despite this, Lin Hui still uploaded "2048", which was previously open sourced on the "Open Source Asia/Asia" website, on GitHub.

The open source agreement is still the GPL open source agreement.

As for the open source of other projects, perhaps "Life Restart Simulator" and "FLAPPYBIRD" can be open sourced over time.

But there is no need to do this in the short term.

Not long after he open sourced the code of "2048", Lin Hui received many stars (stars, similar to likes, a mechanism on GitHub) and many comments.

Lin Hui saw a comment saying:

"Huishen, you've come to Maomao Station too..."

Lin Hui really didn't expect that he actually had followers on GitHub.

It was already late at night, but someone actually noticed what he uploaded.

It seems that many things have indeed changed quietly without realizing it.

Someone else also claimed that "the code written by Lin Hui is as elegant as poetry."

Uh, it's just a 2048 code.

Don’t they all say that colleagues are enemies?

Are you praising him so hard? Lin Hui felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

Soon Lin Hui discovered that he had gained thousands of stars and hundreds of followers.

The latter is even closer to a thousand.

This is outrageous and different from the people on Weibo.

The people on GitHub are basically technical personnel or related personnel.

Lin Hui had never imagined that he could be so popular among professionals.

It is not difficult to understand that a few humble projects that can be tinkered with by any undergraduate can easily earn tens of millions of dollars.

Which technician wouldn't dream of this?

Despite this, Lin Hui was not too intoxicated.

After staying for a short while, Lin Hui was ready to log off from GitHub.

Just when he was about to go offline, Lin Hui received a prompt from GitHub.

Lin Hui was prompted to bind a bank account.

Lin Hui:???

After seeing the corresponding notification, Lin Hui discovered that someone actually tipped his open source project, although each tip was not too much.

But the little bits and pieces add up to thousands of dollars.

It’s not surprising that someone on GitHub tipped Lin Hui.

The income of code farmers is reasonable, and when they see excellent code, they will not be stingy and appreciate it.

What Lin Hui is curious about is why this reward mechanism appeared in 2014?

In the previous life, users on GitHub could indeed tip other developers who provided open source projects.

And for a period of time, this reward even belongs to the developer 100%.

However, Lin Hui remembered that this seemed to have only started in 2019.

Could this time and space be advanced?

But it's not that difficult to understand, and honestly this rule is pretty good.

After all, open source parties cannot always use love to generate electricity.

Proper appreciation can help these open source programmers survive better.

As for reminding Lin Hui to tie up his card, it's only a few thousand dollars.

Lin Hui's income from writing online articles is just from casual writing, and can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Lin Hui doesn't particularly care about a few thousand dollars.

It seems that there is no need to tie the card, let's put it inside first.

Immediately Lin Hui went offline.
Chapter completed!