The green squares tell a story.
Not the one you think.
A commit streak measures showing up. Every day, something. A fix. A README edit. Three hundred days. The graph fills green.
It measures consistency. It does not measure progress.
Two repos. One with three hundred consecutive commits. One with twelve.
The busy one kept the streak alive. Moved buttons. Renamed variables.
The quiet one shipped a migration. A feature still running years later.
The streak is the visible thing. The work is not always.
Proxies work until they become the target. Then you're feeding the proxy.
The streak ends the day you stop committing.
The thing you shipped does not.