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(This post is pretty old, found it in my tumblr drafts folder, but the code still works.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n

So, I was showing Mike Canz<\/a> my shiny new homepage<\/a>, and what was his reaction? “How come the list of github projects doesn’t automatically update like twitter and the blog feed?”<\/p>\n\n

“I don’t know,” was my reply.<\/p>\n\n

A bit of reading about the github API<\/a> and a bit of hacking, and Voila!<\/p>\n\n

<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar nongithub_projects = [\n    { \"name\": \"jThrottle\",\n      \"homepage\": \"http:\/\/inarow.net\/static\/jthrottle\/\",\n      \"description\": \"Throttled jQuery.each() to prevent locking the browser on huge loops\",\n      \"fork\": false }\n];\n\nvar projects_to_skip = {\"cdm-s-kol-greasemonkeys\": true };\n\nfunction github(user) {\n    var repos = user.repositories\n        .concat(nongithub_projects)\n        .sort(function (a, b) { return a.name.toLowerCase() > b.name.toLowerCase(); });\n        $('#projects .loading').replaceWith('&lt;ul\/>'); \n        $ul = $('#projects ul:first');\n        for (var i = 0; i < repos.length; i++) {\n            var rep = repos[i];\n             if (rep['fork'] == 1 || projects_to_skip[rep.name]) continue;\n             var url = rep['homepage'] || rep['url'];\n             $ul.append('&lt;li>&lt;a href=\"'+url+'\">'+rep['name']+'&lt;\/a> - '+rep['description']+'<\/li>');\n        }\n }\n <\/script>\n