trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.

250k stars · 14.5k forks

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

Caution

Caution: no human commits in a year.

Why

No human commits since November 2024. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
One person wrote 71% 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 release or merged commit from a maintainer.
A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 0
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Nov 19, 2024 (1 year ago)
Last human commit: Nov 19, 2024 (1 year ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 6 days

Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.

Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.
168 pull requests are open and nobody has committed in a year.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 100 since Oct 6, 2020
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 5
Contributors: 98

Top committers

trimstray: 71% of commits
crypt0rr: 3% of commits
fl0ppy-d1sk: 2% of commits
groosg: 2% of commits
Snickasaurus: 2% of commits

No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2020-10-06T21:12:07Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Oct 2, 2018 to Oct 4, 2018: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 13, 2018 to Jan 16, 2019: about 9.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 17, 2019 to Mar 7, 2019: about 3.9k more stars than usual, peak 928 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 20, 2019 to May 22, 2019: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 9, 2019 to Jun 10, 2019: about 227 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 12, 2019 to Aug 19, 2019: about 403 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 9, 2019 to Sep 14, 2019: about 321 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 4, 2019 to Nov 8, 2019: about 377 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 21, 2020 to Feb 12, 2020: about 4.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 21, 2020 to Feb 21, 2020: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 13, 2020 to Nov 16, 2020: about 530 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 16, 2021 to Feb 20, 2021: about 879 more stars than usual, peak 269 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 5, 2021 to Jun 1, 2021: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 313 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 18, 2021: about 746 more stars than usual, peak 246 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 25, 2021 to Jul 16, 2021: about 4k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 24, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 349 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 11, 2021 to Nov 15, 2021: about 425 more stars than usual, peak 194 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 28, 2021 to Nov 28, 2021: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 191 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 26, 2022 to Mar 2, 2022: about 393 more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 26, 2022 to Mar 29, 2022: about 330 more stars than usual, peak 191 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 23, 2022 to Jun 26, 2022: about 349 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 24, 2022 to Sep 29, 2022: about 759 more stars than usual, peak 258 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 2, 2023 to Mar 2, 2023: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Apr 1, 2023 to Apr 5, 2023: about 365 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 22, 2023 to May 22, 2023: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 18, 2023 to Aug 18, 2023: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 30, 2023 to Sep 5, 2023: about 507 more stars than usual, peak 177 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Oct 27, 2023 to Nov 3, 2023: about 765 more stars than usual, peak 262 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 9, 2023 to Dec 13, 2023: about 793 more stars than usual, peak 299 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 18, 2023 to Dec 19, 2023: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 150 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 20, 2024 to Feb 20, 2024: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 255 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 30, 2024 to May 2, 2024: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 31, 2024 to Aug 3, 2024: about 435 more stars than usual, peak 306 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 7, 2024 to Aug 8, 2024: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 27, 2024 to Jan 2, 2025: about 866 more stars than usual, peak 324 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 5, 2025 to Jan 7, 2025: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 194 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 25, 2025 to Apr 29, 2025: about 3.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
May 28, 2025 to Jun 3, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 447 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 12, 2025 to Jul 24, 2025: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 860 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 17, 2025 to Nov 19, 2025: about 509 more stars than usual, peak 493 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 19, 2025 to Dec 22, 2025: about 478 more stars than usual, peak 430 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 3, 2026 to Feb 4, 2026: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 29, 2026 to Mar 30, 2026: about 232 more stars than usual, peak 309 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 19, 2026 to Apr 21, 2026: about 540 more stars than usual, peak 420 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 19, 2026 to Jun 1, 2026: about 3.1k more stars than usual, peak 952 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

19 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.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
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 3.4 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: At risk

Computed 20 hours ago · method 2026.10.2