Sex Values Github ◉ 〈Working〉
Perhaps the most powerful feature of Git is the commit history. Every change, every mistake, every improvement is recorded forever. You can revert, but you cannot erase.
Trust in a relationship is exactly a commit history.
When you first meet someone, their commit log is empty. Every promise kept is a commit: feat: picked her up from the airport at midnight. Every lie told is a commit: fix: pretended to like her cooking. Every act of love is documented: refactor: changed my weekend plans to support his art show.
Over months and years, that history becomes the source of trust—or suspicion. You can look at the log and see a pattern. Are there too many fix: sorry I forgot commits? Are there recurring bugs that never get resolved?
In open source, maintainers review an outside contributor’s commit history before trusting them with the main branch. In love, we do the same. We look for evidence of integrity, consistency, and repair.
A great romantic storyline is not one without bad commits. We all push broken code sometimes. A great story is one where bad commits are followed by revert commits—sincere apologies—and then better commits afterward. The history shows a trend line of growth. sex values github
The term gained traction in startup and tech circles from a simple idea:
On GitHub, most developers aren’t paid for their open source contributions. Yet millions pour countless hours into repos. Why? Because open source is driven almost entirely by sex values:
GitHub makes these values visible through its social coding features—profiles, contribution graphs, issue threads, and discussions.
Decide in advance how you will resolve merge conflicts. Will you use a mediator (therapist)? Will you time-box arguments? Will you write a conflict resolution protocol together?
Sex values are not childish or naive. They are the reason humans build cathedrals, write symphonies, and—yes—submit pull requests at 11 PM on a Saturday. Perhaps the most powerful feature of Git is
GitHub has given us a global stage for these values. But like any tool, it can be used to inspire or to exploit. As developers, we need to protect the sex values in our work: celebrating intrinsic motivation while ensuring that no one is asked to live on passion alone.
Remember: Stars don’t pay rent. But a life without stars—without the joy of creating with others—isn’t much of a life at all.
What are your “sex values” as a developer? Share your thoughts—or a PR—in the comments.
(Originally inspired by discussions on sexvalues.github.io and tech ethics forums.)
Every serious GitHub repository has a README: a plain-text document that explains what the project is, what it values, and how to contribute. Many also have CONTRIBUTING.md, which sets expectations for behavior, coding standards, and communication. On GitHub, most developers aren’t paid for their
In a romantic storyline, this is "The Talk" – Defining the Relationship (DTR).
The README of a relationship answers:
Too many romantic storylines fail because the participants never write a README. They assume. They infer. They guess at the other’s contributing guidelines. Then they are surprised when a pull request is rejected.
The most mature couples treat their relationship like a well-documented open-source project. They explicitly discuss:
This sounds unromantic. But in practice, clarity is the highest form of romance. There is nothing sexier than a partner who has read the contributing guidelines and still wants to merge.
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