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Given a GitHub username and a month/date string, this will take your GitHub avatar and slather the words `OOO 'til <month/date>`.
Given a GitHub username and a month/date string, this will take your GitHub avatar and slather the
words OOO 'til <month/date>.
In other words, from this:

to this:

You will need the dependencies outlined in node-canvas before using this tool.
Once that's done, run:
npm install -g ooo-maker
Requires
nodeto be available in your PATH. If you're using a system where the node binary is namednodejsinstead, you'll need to symlink it or something.
ooo-maker -u <GitHub_username> -d <month/date>
I got tired of doing this myself.
FAQs
Given a GitHub username and a month/date string, this will take your GitHub avatar and slather the words `OOO 'til <month/date>`.
The npm package ooo-maker receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, ooo-maker popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ooo-maker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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