GitHub Zen API

After curl-ing for a while in a loop, and sort -u:<p><pre><code> Anything added dilutes everything else. Approachable is better than simple. Avoid administrative distraction. Design for failure. Encourage flow. Favor focus over features. Half measures are as bad as nothing at all. It&#x27;s not fully shipped until it&#x27;s fast. Keep it logically awesome. Mind your words, they are important. Non-blocking is better than blocking. Practicality beats purity. Responsive is better than fast. Speak like a human.</code></pre>

Great fun with cowsay<p><pre><code> $ curl https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.github.com&#x2F;zen -s | cowsay _____________________ &lt; Speak like a human. &gt; -------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\&#x2F;\ ||----w | || ||</code></pre>

Never realized there was an emojis api too... <a href="https://api.github.com/emojis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.github.com&#x2F;emojis</a>

Surprisingly profound: <i>Anything added dilutes everything else</i>

<p><pre><code> $ grep bofh .bash_aliases alias bofh=&quot;nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 | tail -n 1 | sed -e &#x27;s&#x2F;Your excuse is: &#x2F;&#x2F;&#x27;&quot; $ bofh The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine room</code></pre>

The comments below demonstrate that, while cute, virtually all of the statements it comes up with are entirely subjective, quite superficial, totally ambiguous, and useless for most things.<p>Great conversation starter though!

This reminds me of a small project I tossed together:<p><a href="http://git-fortune.bclune.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-fortune.bclune.org</a><p>It grabs a random commit message from a github repo and displays it. By default, it pulls from a repo containing the original debian fortunes as commit messages. But you can point it to other repos like this:<p><a href="http://git-fortune.bclune.org/twbs/bootstrap" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-fortune.bclune.org&#x2F;twbs&#x2F;bootstrap</a><p>Inspired by What the Commit? and &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;fortune.

&quot;Non-blocking is better than blocking.&quot;<p>You don&#x27;t say.

Is there anything related to the zen of python?<p>I got &quot;practicality beats purity&quot;, that is in it (&quot;Special cases aren&#x27;t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity.&quot;).

$ npm install github-zens -g<p>$ zen<p>A Node Module which prints the zens (offline list). <a href="https://github.com/arjunbajaj/github-zens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;arjunbajaj&#x2F;github-zens</a>

<a href="https://www.mashape.com/community/github-zen#!documentation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mashape.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;github-zen#!documentation</a>

If you wanna read short messages from which you won&#x27;t benefit in any way, might as well try:<p><a href="http://whatthecommit.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatthecommit.com</a>

Is this used anywhere at all, or is it just an easter egg ?

I had made something like that with fortune and php many-many years ago.<p>I wonder if GitHub has a static list of quotes (like fortune does) or they generate them dynamically.

&quot;Responsive is better than fast.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t agree with this.

Check response headers. Pretty strict rate limiting.

it just says &quot;design for failure&quot; ?<p>[edit] okay i get it refreshing gives another message etc. etc.