kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in
27.8k stars · 653 forks
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 8
- Human commits, 90 days
- 12
- Human commits, 365 days
- 24
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 24 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 43
Top committers
- kdeldycke: 100% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 18, 2016 to Nov 3, 2016: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 247 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 27, 2016 to Jan 4, 2017: about 493 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 31, 2017 to Jan 31, 2017: about 24 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 13, 2017 to Feb 28, 2017: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 952 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Mar 21, 2017 to Mar 23, 2017: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 12, 2018 to Dec 13, 2018: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 20, 2019 to Mar 3, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 398 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 25, 2019 to Aug 27, 2019: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 2, 2020 to Jan 6, 2020: about 186 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 3, 2020 to May 6, 2020: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 27, 2020 to Aug 3, 2020: about 912 more stars than usual, peak 277 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 8, 2020 to Sep 23, 2020: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 705 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 10, 2022 to Jan 11, 2022: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 17, 2022 to Mar 25, 2022: about 498 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Jul 4, 2022 to Jul 8, 2022: about 145 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 2, 2023 to Feb 12, 2023: about 560 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 2, 2023 to Aug 9, 2023: about 657 more stars than usual, peak 320 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Sep 28, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Oct 30, 2024 to Nov 1, 2024: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 27, 2024 to Jan 6, 2025: about 531 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 29, 2025 to Sep 1, 2025: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 30, 2025: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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