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🔥 STAR-PLAGUED BALLOON
“Built a starry empire, but that empty repo is a black hole.”
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Minted from @simonw’s public GitHub
16Kfollowers39Kstars983reposPythontop lang
Why 79/100
Stars on your live, original repos — discounted if it's all one viral hit.
Developers who follow your work.
How much of your live portfolio is actually active.
Substantive original repos and language range.
Descriptions, licenses, topics, live links — finished work.
Days since your last push to a live original repo.
The roast
You’re sitting on 983 repos, but the biggest joke is the near-empty 'datasette-allow-permissions-debug' — all 20 KB of it, with zero stars. It’s almost a crime to churn out 85% of pushes over the last 90 days and still leave the graveyard with only one archived repo. After 18.3 years, your naming crimes like ‘simonwillisonblog-backup’ and ‘datasette-backup’ scream less ‘innovator’ and more ‘out of ideas.’ Sure, 39,116 stars sound great, but they don’t change the fact that your top languages could draft an entire novel in Python while your HTML tools sit comfortably in the ‘almost generated’ category.
[](https://gitroast.me/u/simonw)Account age, portfolio size, public repo count.
Builder Score recalibrated 2026-07.