As we contemplate the meaningless existance that we lead fuelling a capitalist system based on on our labour we sometimes wish there was a way to make it look like we are actually earning our salary.
In an amazing display of selflessness two developers decided to sacrifice about 50 entire minutes to this righteous cause, this is the result.
We've deployed this app to Heroku, because we really wanted to spend the least possible amount of effort.
$ curl http://drinking-typing-bird.herokuapp.com
Jump into whatever repository you're working on and run this command, it will sleep randomly and create an empty commit using a phrase from whatthecommit.com as the commit message.
while true; do sleep $(( $RANDOM / 100 )); git commit --allow-empty -m "$(curl http://drinking-typing-bird.herokuapp.com/)" ; done
Add a git push origin master
to the one-liner above, if you dare.
We accept only commit messages created drinking typing bird, or some other method that takes even less effort.