Five years ago, I was using a web service called
Codeivate to track my programming habits.
After some on–off, it finally went offline in the spring of 2016. So, during my company’s next hacking event,
I started a new project to replace the missing service. That project became
Code::Stats. Now, five years later, it’s still running and I’m still focused on
improving it. I’m quite proud of what it has become, so here are some updated numbers from the database.
Last week I got a very curious email in my inbox. It supposedly came from Microsoft and was a report
about Code::Stats’s compatibility on Edge and what modern browsers it
suggests as a replacement for Internet Explorer. I will quote the key parts:
After setting up AhlCode
and figuring out the taxing and accounting, I’m able to start selling Code::Stats stickers again.
Read on to find out the specs!
On the 11th of May I set up a
sole proprietorship with the name AhlCode.
It is meant to legitimise and properly handle any income coming from my side businesses. The main
aim at this point is to get some money back to compensate the server costs of things I host. But I
wouldn’t complain if it resulted in some little profit also.
This is a project that I’ve been working on for a month or so on my free time (of which there really isn’t too much). I started it on my company’s 12 hour hackfest, where I didn’t get anything worth showing done (it was all backend stuff), but now it’s ready to be published. *drumroll* So, it’s time for the reveal: