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How to Ruin All of Package Management (nesbitt.io)
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[โ€“] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TIL people actually pay attention to GitHub stars.

[โ€“] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Tbh I do use for techy popularity measure. Though it doesnt give you an idea of WHEN it was popular amongst people who have an account on that forge or what kind of techy those people were.