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sindresorhus / is-github-down

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Observed mentions: 2016-02-15 18:08:34 UTC to 2016-03-24 20:32:27 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 152016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 292016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 21

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 152016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 222016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 292016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 72016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 142016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC101

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r3bl·Feb 15, 2016
May I just point out how awesome the original author is? I mean, I'm using his GitHub indicator (available as an extension for both Chrome[0] and Firefox[1]), I'm collaborating with him on his mega popular awesome list[2] (currently the top non-code repository on GitHub by the number of stars), he started the whole GitHub AMA idea[3], he developed a bunch of command line clients that I'm using regularly (like speed-test[4], is-reachable[5] and is-github-down[6])... And now this! This guy is unstoppable! [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notifier-for-githu... [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/notifier-for-github-firefox [2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [3] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama [4] https://github.com/sindresorhus/speed-test [5] https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-reachable [6] https://github.com/sindre
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