About Git Log
A daily briefing that shows you the whole picture — the markets, and the day's news from the left, the center, and the right, side by side — so you read across the spectrum instead of inside one bubble.
The origin story
Somewhere along the way, the green GitHub contribution graph up there — one little square for every day you push code — turned into a vanity metric. Recruiters and even some engineers started reading it as a proxy for how hard you work: more green, more productive.
But committing every day doesn't actually mean you're productive. You might be deep in system-design work that never touches a commit. You might be working in private repos, or on GitLab, or in systems that graph never sees. A blank day isn't a lazy day — the wall just rewards noise over real work.
So, half in protest and half for fun, I put a job on my Hetzner box that pushed a small random change to a repo every single day — purely to fight that system and keep the squares green.
It worked, and it felt hollow: I was burning a server's time every morning to commit
nothing. The "work" was random. So I decided to make it do something useful instead —
build a real briefing and commit that. The green square is still there; it just means
something now. And the name wrote itself: git log is the running record of everything
that happened, which is exactly what a daily news log is.
Why it exists
Most of us read the news from one side. Git Log puts the left and the right next to each other on the same day, with a common-ground column of what the wires report either way, plus a fast read on the markets that move the world. For a long time I wanted something like this — the top stories from both sides and the top market metrics, in one place. So I built it. Even if I don't agree with them, it's helpful and interesting to see what both sides are saying.
How to read it
Every section is a git command. git diff is the markets — what moved today.
git bisect is the split: the same day framed by the left and the right, with the common
ground in the middle. git fetch is the world. Headlines run as each outlet published them,
grouped by lean, unedited — the point is that you judge.