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by avg_dev 1395 days ago
Hi, thanks for your interest!

I am definitely happy to share, but I didn’t expect any interest and I posted my comment under my HN pseudonym account. However when I link to the repo on GitHub that thin veneer of obscurity will disappear and I’d prefer that it did not. Being a programmer, I am quite familiar with workarounds and I am happy to offer you couple of different options:

1. You could add an email address to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxique and I can email you there - I’m happy to share my name and contact info in a one-off request, just not on an ongoing basis for anyone to see.

2. I could clone the repo onto my current machine and delete the .git dir, leaving the code and the README.md intact, produce an archive of that stuff, and link it here in this thread. While I’m sure it may be possible to use a code search tool to find the repo on GitHub after that, I am not terribly bothered by that.

I am open to other options as well if you have any suggestions. Finally, the code was written for whatever version of the Ruby interpreter (MRI) was current in 2016, in case that will dissuade your interest.

EDIT: I have a bias to action, appreciate interest in my work, and figured it was likely that you would see my reply at some later point and then I'd have to see your reply to my reply at some even later point, and we'd continue the loop, and eventually your interest would wane. So I went with option two. Here you go: https://we.tl/t-Bu257EdQn9

This is my first time using WeTransfer; let me know how it works out for you. I actually originally had a link that I hosted on file.io (which I've also never used before), but it looks like that gets automatically deleted after one download, which seems slightly excessive to me.