octoscope 0.29.0 — maker thread

Four things still made me open a browser every day, even with octoscope running. 0.29.0 is those four.

A gist I needed the code out of. What I actually did this week. Who funds the work. And the notification that mentioned me.

Gists now open into the file contents, syntax-highlighted — c copies the code, not the link. A one-file gist opens straight into it, because that was the only thing there was to see.

Activity grew a second half: ←/→ swaps the contribution heatmap for a feed. Pushes, PRs, reviews, releases, across every repo at once. The heatmap answers how much; the feed answers what.

Sponsors received and given, by name. And the real GitHub inbox — mentions, review requests, CI — read-only, so enter takes you to the thread and GitHub marks it read.

Two tips. On the inbox, s cuts the noise three ways: three quarters of an inbox is usually a workflow reporting that it succeeded. And --public-only is still safe to screenshot everywhere — it doesn't even ask GitHub for your secret gists, so the count can't give them away.

The detail I enjoyed getting right: review chatter on one pull request folds into a single row with a ×N count, so a heavily-reviewed PR stops burying the week. But an approval never folds. Collapsing the one review that mattered into a "×12" was the whole failure to avoid.