Crossover: 2014

Chapter 178 The boss is actually me

Before you know it, the time has come to 24 o'clock in the evening on the 10th.

Lin Hui decided to take a break. Before that, Lin Hui felt like replying to the email.

This has become a routine for Lin Hui before going to bed.

The mailbox has received a lot of emails, but Lin Hui was immediately attracted by a unique but very familiar avatar.

A white cat on black?

(ps: ... the statement here is based on the classic image of the website. In fact, I forgot what the email avatar of GitHub looked like in 2014)
Email from GitHub?
GitHub can know Lin Hui's email address, Lin Hui is not very surprised.

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

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

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

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

It's also the world's largest code repository and open source community.

GitHub as a website.

Because there are a large number of programmers gathered on it, it was even once called the world's largest gay dating site...

This statement is slightly biased, but GitHub is also a good platform for work, study and communication anyway.

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, looking for project inspiration.

However, I accidentally learned that after GitHub suffered DNS hijacking, the website upgrade will be shut down for a period of time.

At that time, Lin Hui was still very sorry.

Now GitHub actually sent an email to Lin Hui again.

Could it be that this space-time GitHub has finally resumed normal operations?

I clicked on the email to see, as expected.

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

This is of course a good thing.

A world where GitHub is down is more or less unfamiliar to a practitioner like Lin Hui who is obsessed with technology.

This email also called GRAY FOREST the fastest-growing technician in the world in the past six months, which is not one of them.

The email is full of praise for Lin Hui, and strongly invites Lin Hui to register an account and verify it. If Lin Hui
It will be GitHub's loss if Lin Hui doesn't come to the GitHub family...

The letter was signed by Tom Preston Werner, who Lin Hui remembered 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 to the top to watch the boss speak, but now I see the boss is myself.

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

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

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

Lin Hui replied to GitHub's invitation.

After that, Lin Hui replied to some other emails.

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

Lin Hui saw those two words that were so familiar to him again:
"Welcome to GitHub!"

"Let's start a fantasy adventure!"

For a while, Lin Hui had a feeling of dislocation in time and space, saying that he could buy GitHub at any time.

Nothing to do with profit, just out of love.

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

Lin Hui remembers that in 18, Microsoft bought Maomao.com with about 75 billion US dollars in stock.

In other words, 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 get it directly with stocks.

This can greatly reduce the dependence on cash flow.

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

As for the authentication content, it is natural that Lin Hui's most familiar vest "GRAY FOREST" is used.

Of course, just completed the certification.

Lin Hui did not write additional words such as "the development has "Life Reopening Simulator", "2048", etc. on Weibo and Twitter.

These previously developed things may have helped Lin Hui a lot.

But these are past tense.

Despite this, Lin Hui 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, maybe "Life Reopening Simulator" and "FLAPPYBIRD" can be open sourced after a while.

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

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

Lin Hui saw a comment saying:

"Grey God, you've also come to Maomao Station..."

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

It was already late at night, yet someone still noticed what he uploaded.

It seems that many things have changed quietly without knowing it.

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

Uh, just a 2048 code.

Don't they all say that colleagues are enemies?
Lin Hui felt a little embarrassed for such an earnest praise.

Not long after Lin Hui discovered that he had gained thousands of stars and hundreds of followers.

The latter is faintly close to a thousand signs.

This is outrageous, and it is different from the people on Weibo.

Those on GitHub are basically technicians or related personnel.

Lin Hui hadn't expected to be so popular among professionals.

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

Which technician would not dream of this?

Even so, Lin Hui was not too intoxicated.

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

Just as she was about to go offline, Lin Hui received a notification from GitHub.

Prompt Lin Hui to bind the bank account.

Lin Hui:? ? ?
Only after seeing the corresponding notification did Lin Hui realize that someone had tipped his open source project, although each tip is not too much.

But the odds and ends add up to thousands of dollars.

It is not surprising that someone on GitHub gave Lin Hui a reward.

The income of code farmers is not bad. When they see excellent codes, they will not be stingy and appreciate them.

What Lin Hui is more curious about is why this tipping mechanism appeared in 2014?
Users on GitHub in the previous life could indeed give rewards to other developers who provided open source projects.

And for a period of time, this reward is even 100% owned by the developer.

However, Lin Hui remembers that this seems to have only started in 2019.

Could it be that this time and space has advanced?
It's not that hard to understand though, and it's a good rule to be honest.

After all, the open source party cannot always use love to generate electricity after all.

Proper appreciation can make these open source programmers survive better.

As for reminding Lin Hui to tie the card or something, it was only a few thousand dollars.

Lin Hui's income from online articles is just a casual affair, and there are hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Lin Hui didn't particularly care about thousands of dollars.

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

Immediately, Lin Hui went offline.

(End of this chapter)