Easter eggs in Hacktoberfest 🪺
Tags: tutorial, opensource, productivity, showdev
Published: 2022-10-31 00:30:20


## Floating shark 🦈 🎈

Enter the following command in your terminal to see -  _[ascii art](https://www.asciiart.eu/)_ of a shark floating in the air with a balloon shaped like a heart `❤` and telling you **DO Love** in 3D letters! 

```sh
curl -s https://hacktoberfest.com/profile/ | head -n40 | tail -n40 | tail -n39
```
> **Note**: Ensure that you have [curl](https://curl.se/) installed. Install it with `sudo apt install curl` or `brew install curl` if you are on macOS.

I had to pipe the curl request with a bunch of `head` and `tail` commands just to capture the `ASCII Art` of the shark. 

### Even cooler 🌈

Pipe the above command with `lolcat` to see the shark in rainbow colors!

```sh
curl -s https://hacktoberfest.com/profile/ | head -n40 | tail -n40 | tail -n39 | lolcat
```
> **Note**: Ensure that you have [lolcat](https://github.com/jaseg/lolcat) - `brew install lolcat`

It will look something like this -


![asciiart](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ux1kturs5cjpflfsk1j2.png)



You could also simply view the shark by visiting [Hacktoberfest profile](https://hacktoberfest.com/profile/) and check the console from dev tools. 


## Progress report

You can see the progress report of your PRs by visiting [Hacktoberfest profile](https://hacktoberfest.com/profile/). Initially, the status of your PRs will be `0/4` and as you do more PRs, the status will change to `1/4`, `2/4` and so on. If you have done all 4 PR and kept doing more PRs, the status will look something like this - `4 + .. /4`. Currently, I have completed all 4 PRs and have done 1 more PRs. The status looks like this - `4 + 1 /4`. 


![progressreport](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9yucva3j3w0jziq1uyzc.png)


## Dark mode 

I haven't participated in Hacktoberfest before but I have heard that there were only white t-shirts available. This year, you can choose between a white or dark t-shirt. 

## Dev badge

Dev has a special and unique-looking badge for every Hacktoberfest. Once you completed 4 PRs, you will be rewarded with a special badge along with this message.


![devbadge](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0dmc88ouogiarrdbmw2c.png)

The badge of this year looks fascinating -

![badge](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/msx8c62zsakdnvnfdovt.png)


## Holopin 

I quite often enjoy messing with my [badge board](https://www.holopin.io/@batunpc) in [Holopin](https://www.holopin.io/), this board lets me pin my badges and present the Hacktoberfest achievements I have made. Holopin got introduced this year along with Hacktoberfest and if you had an account, you would get a unique badge for each PR you made. This was one of the encouraging factors for me to do more PRs. 

The [badge board](https://www.holopin.io/@batunpc) looks like this -


![badgeboard](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4yfxhnbsxn3o1aedmdae.png)


You can adjust the badges by `Shift + Click` and `Drag` to move them around or `Command + Click` to rotate. They also provide a Markdown code to embed the badge board in your README.md file.


## palpatine

I have been developing a CLI tool called [palpatine](https://github.com/batunpc/palpatine) for a while now. It is a static site generator (SSG) written in C++ and still under development, ready for the support of the community in GitHub. This Hacktoberfest, I experienced the role of a contributor in open source but in the next Hacktoberfest, I will be participating as a maintainer of palpatine!