GitGarden - your GitHub contributions as a living pixel art garden 🌿

tl;dr: I built thegitgarden.com — enter any GitHub username and watch your contributions become a pixel art garden. here's what I had to figure out along the way. 🪴 how it started I came across The Git City — a project that turns GitHub profiles into 3D pixel art buildings. loved the concept. but I wanted something that felt more... alive? more personal? gardens grow. they change with the seasons. they reflect how much care you put in. that felt like a much better metaphor for a developer's con