If you have the GitHub block on your profile, you might have seen it at some point with everything at zero: stars, repos and followers at 0, even though your account was connected. That's history now.
We rewrote from scratch how we pull your GitHub data. Before, we requested it unauthenticated and, under load, GitHub would cut us off for rate limiting and the block would silently go to zero. Now it goes through a single, reliable authenticated call.
What changed
- Real numbers: stars summed across your repos, count of public repos (not counting forks) and followers, actually fetched.
- Real heatmap: the activity chart is no longer decorative. Before, if there was no data, it filled in with random little squares. Now it shows your real contributions from the last few months, with the right intensity and painted in your accent color.
- Commits you can navigate by month: we added a commit counter you can scroll through month by month with the arrows. It starts at the current month and you go back to see your pace.
It stays fresh on its own
The data syncs when you enter the dashboard and you can force it with the "Refresh" button when editing the block. And one golden rule: if for some reason we can't pull the data, we never overwrite your good numbers with zeros. What you see is always the last valid version.
If your block was half-dead, jump in, refresh, and look at it with real numbers.
Let's buildRRR!