Show HN: Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art
A developer introduces a tool called 'Codebase Posters' that generates artistic visualizations of Git repository commit histories. The tool runs locally and creates deterministic, high-resolution posters based on project activity.
Why it matters
It offers a creative way to visualize software development history and highlights the intersection of coding and generative art.
every repository has a shape. this paints it.
npx codebase-posters one command, inside any git repo. your browser opens an exhibition: eighteen posters, painted live from your commit history. storms of additions and deletions. your working days as a calendar. the project's heartbeat. the constellations you committed at 2am.
pick one. watch it paint itself. hang it on the wall.
react. thirteen years of weather. express. it's been raining since 2009. vite. resting heart rate: not resting. zod. one man's night sky. tailwind. nine years of showing up. git. the last 20,000 commits. each image is a real open-source repo at a fixed seed. same inputs, same pixels.
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