Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?

Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by Stratoscope on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:59AM (#14709432)

> Take a look at filesizes. The biggest files usually contain the meat of the program, or at least a dispatcher that points to the meat of the program. main.cc is usually tiny and useless for finding your way around.

This is my #1 pet peeve with GitHub. When I first look at an unfamiliar repo, I want to get a sense of what the code is about and what it looks like. The way I do that with a local project is by looking at the largest files first. But GitHub loves their clean uncluttered interface so much, they won't show me the file sizes!

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Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by arocks on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:20PM (#14711493)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-repository-...

I think this Chrome extension called "GitHub Repository Size" might be exactly what you are looking for

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Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by Stratoscope on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:37PM (#14711656)

Nice, thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by tome on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:05AM (#14710040)

Yes, absolutely! I really want a whole-repo tree view of files along with their sizes and file types.

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Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by tlapuste on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:28AM (#14710654)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjah...

Check out Octotree if you're using Chrome. No file sizes still, but I've found that when you just want to quickly explore some potential new source this beats having to clone the repo first.

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Re:Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great? by Stratoscope on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:43PM (#14711715)

That is great, thanks!

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