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It used to be a tradition at GitHub to announce new hires with a blog post with the pattern, “So and so is a GitHubber.” Each post would be accompanied by an image. On December 7, 2011, I got my very own with a photo of me with giant robot arms. The arms are a bald attempt to cozy up to the one who really ran the show at GitHub, Hubot. Over time, the images became animated gifs. And these became more and more elaborate. As you can imagine, this practice did not scale as GitHub grew. You’d need a...