mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about

100.5k stars · 8.8k forks

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most commits, and no one has committed by hand in 90 days.

Why

One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 19
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Dec 29, 2025 (9 months ago)
Last human commit: Dec 29, 2025 (9 months ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 73 days

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: Organization
Commits sampled: 19 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 85

Top committers

mr-mig: 100% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Dec 26, 2017 to Dec 28, 2017: about 269 more stars than usual, peak 160 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 10, 2018 to May 11, 2018: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 16, 2018 to May 18, 2018: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 23, 2019 to Jul 3, 2019: about 975 more stars than usual, peak 288 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 22, 2019 to Nov 23, 2019: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 28, 2021 to Apr 30, 2021: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 26, 2021 to Jan 6, 2022: about 5.6k more stars than usual, peak 511 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 10, 2022 to Apr 17, 2022: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 13, 2022 to Jun 14, 2022: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 1, 2022 to Jul 29, 2022: about 5.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 7, 2022 to Aug 9, 2022: about 311 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 8, 2022 to Sep 16, 2022: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 401 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 28, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 807 more stars than usual, peak 271 in one day, a flat block of stars. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 14, 2022 to Dec 17, 2022: about 642 more stars than usual, peak 340 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 17, 2023 to Jan 19, 2023: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 30, 2023 to Feb 4, 2023: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 343 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 28, 2023 to Mar 2, 2023: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 176 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 26, 2023 to Apr 27, 2023: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 7, 2023 to Jun 15, 2023: about 639 more stars than usual, peak 237 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 22, 2023 to Aug 25, 2023: about 476 more stars than usual, peak 264 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 23, 2023 to Dec 27, 2023: about 193 more stars than usual, peak 119 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 9, 2024 to Jan 10, 2024: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 21, 2024 to Feb 4, 2024: about 813 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 16, 2024 to Feb 16, 2024: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 4, 2024: about 349 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 21, 2024 to Jun 24, 2024: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 1, 2024 to Aug 21, 2024: about 3.1k more stars than usual, peak 543 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 24, 2024 to Aug 26, 2024: about 373 more stars than usual, peak 247 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 11, 2024 to Sep 12, 2024: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 26, 2024 to Dec 4, 2024: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 527 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 16, 2025 to Feb 17, 2025: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 3, 2025 to Mar 5, 2025: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 21, 2025 to Oct 9, 2025: about 4.7k more stars than usual, peak 1.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Nov 16, 2025 to Nov 18, 2025: about 998 more stars than usual, peak 821 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 3, 2025 to Dec 8, 2025: about 585 more stars than usual, peak 309 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 19, 2025 to Dec 22, 2025: about 513 more stars than usual, peak 230 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 26, 2026 to Feb 28, 2026: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 3, 2026 to Apr 5, 2026: about 334 more stars than usual, peak 247 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 19, 2026 to May 24, 2026: about 304 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 12, 2026 to Jun 16, 2026: about 250 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: CC-BY-4.0
A year ago: CC-BY-4.0

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2