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It's been 10 years since Tim Holman made GitHub corners, the little triangle with the waving Octocat you see on some open source projects, including many of mine.

When he made those it had been eight years since GitHub posted the ribbons on their blog. GitHub is synonymous with online code but I have code that isn't on GitHub and so do lots of other people. Even if it is on GitHub, it doesn't mean we have to also have their mascot on our pages.

We're overdue a platform-agnostic alternative so I made one: Code Corners. A triangle with the classic </> in the middle.

One banner that says Fork me on Github, one blue triangle with a white Octocat in it, and a red triangle with code brackets in it

There's no fancy animation like the GitHub one but it does fix a bugbear^[1] of mine from that one — there is no secondary colour. It's transparent so it matches whatever background you have instead of having to set that yourself.

The site is basically the same as Tim's so it should be familiar to anyone who's used GitHub corners in the past.

Forgejo Corners, Gitea Corners, SourceHut Corners, random-page-on-your-website corners. You can link to literally anything. Even GitHub.

Yep, that really is how it's spelt, TIL ⤾

Code Corners

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