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Life & fun · July 12, 2026

Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art

npx codebase-posters inside any git repo opens a local exhibition: 18 pieces painted live from your commit history. everything renders from git log, nothing leaves your machine.

Codebase Posters – turn any Git repo into generative poster art launched on July 12, 2026 with 29 votes, #730 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Codebase Posters is a command-line tool that generates 18 pieces of generative art from a Git repository's commit history. Users run the tool inside any Git project to view a local exhibition where each artwork is painted live from the repository's git log data. All processing happens locally on the user's machine with no data sent elsewhere. It is designed for developers and Git users who want to visualize their coding history as abstract art.

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From the sources

your repository as generative art — npx codebase-posters - unable12/codebase-posters

npx codebase-posters one command, inside any git repo. your browser opens an exhibition: twenty-two 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. each image is a real open-source repo at a fixed seed. same inputs, same pixels. runs entirely on your machine. no uploads. no telemetry. no account. 130 kB, zero dependencies. it reads your git log, paints, and forgets. print : 3600×4800 px. that's 12×16 inches at 300 dpi. real poster, real wall. video : the painting animation as an mp4, encoded in your browser. every poster is deterministic: same repo, same…from github.com

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