About this project

Meaningfull-commits (borjagm1/meaningfull-commits) is a deliberately minimal novelty repository whose stated purpose is a counter that keeps rising. The README summarises it as "The number goes up. That's it. That's the repo." Documented flow: a cron job calls grind.sh, which updates index.html, and Caddy serves the result. The same script also commits and pushes to GitHub. The architecture is drawn in the README as: [cron] -> grind.sh -> updates index.html -> Caddy serves it, with a branch from grind.sh -> git push -> GitHub (described as "sacred green squares"). Files listed in the README are only two: index.html, which shows THE NUMBER, and grind.sh, which performs the grind, i.e. the increment and commit cycle. No other files, dependencies, configuration options, tests or installation steps are described. Grind intensity: the README provides a table of possible intervals and the resulting commit volume: - 5 seconds: 17,280 per day, 518,400 per month, 6,307,200 per year ("Certifiably insane") - 15 seconds: 5,760 per day, 172,800 per month, 2,102,400 per year ("GitHub calls the police") - 30 seconds: 2,880 per day, 86,400 per month, 1,051,200 per year ("Absolutely unhinged") - 1 minute: 1,440 per day, 43,200 per month, 525,600 per year ("Peak grindset") - 5 minutes: 288 per day, 8,640 per month, 105,120 per year ("Respectable hustle") - 30 minutes: 48 per day, 1,440 per month, 17,520 per year ("Casual") FAQ points as written: why? because THE NUMBER must increase; when does it stop? it does not; cost? the VPS is already being paid for, a domain is optional vanity, everything else is $0; is this a good use of a VPS? THE NUMBER does not concern itself with such questions; what if the VPS goes down? THE NUMBER pauses, does not forget, and resumes. Licensing and scope: the project is released under the MIT licence. It is effectively a joke project, but it also demonstrates a small, complete self-hosted loop of scheduled script execution, file mutation, git-based persistence of state, and static serving through Caddy on an operator's own VPS. Everything beyond the two listed files and the cron schedule would have to be supplied by the person deploying it.