{"id":22379,"date":"2023-05-11T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=22379"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:18:59","slug":"30000-github-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/30000-github-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 GitHub stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Keeping up with the tradition. A little over two years since the <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2021\/04\/06\/20000-github-stars\/\">curl reaching 20,000 GitHub stars celebrations<\/a> I am here to post a new photo as we just surpassed 30,000 stars on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/curl\/curl\">curl\/curl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is slightly delayed just because I happened to be traveling when I realized we had climbed above this mark, so it took me an extra day to get an appropriate photograph made. The kind of photograph a moment like this calls for. Unfortunately without a beer this time.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/daniel-30000-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/daniel-30000-stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22386\" width=\"416\" height=\"531\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daniel celebrating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steady growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The star growth rate for curl seems to have been fairly linear over many years now.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/star-history-3000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"977\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/star-history-3000.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22381\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meaningless<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes GitHub stars is a totally meaning less metric that does not say anything real about a project like curl. It does not reflect usage, it does not reflect popularity and it does not reflect the number of installs out in the real world. It&#8217;s just a vanity number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up with the tradition. A little over two years since the curl reaching 20,000 GitHub stars celebrations I am here to post a new photo as we just surpassed 30,000 stars on curl\/curl. This post is slightly delayed just because I happened to be traveling when I realized we had climbed above this mark, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/30000-github-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">30,000 GitHub stars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-22379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22387,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions\/22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}