GitHub Game of Life

Replace all contribution graphs on GitHub with Conway's Game of Life using this simple Chrome Extension or bookmarklet.

The GitHub contributions graph, a public reminder that you might not be working as hard as you should! Now you can replace all contribution graphs on GitHub with Conway's Game of Life, using your contributions as the seed.

Usage

Browser Extension

Available as a Chrome Extension, simply install this extension to run Conway's Game of Life on all GitHub contribution graphs.

Bookmarklet

If you don't want to install the extension you can use a bookmarklet instead.

Simply drag the button below to your bookmarks bar and click it any time you want to run Conway's Game of Life on a GitHub page containing a contribution graph.

Changelog

1.0.2

- Support for GitHub's dark mode.

1.0.1

- All the changes.

Known Issues

- The extension won't trigger if the profile URL has a trailing slash, as the extension has been deliberately been restricted as to which URLs it will function on.

- The extension won't trigger if you navigate to a contribution graph via any tabs on a profile page. Refreshing the page will trigger the extension in this scenario.

Contact

Send me an email via [email protected] or you can find me on Twitter at @defaced.

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