Starfucker – A GitHub API exploration (opens in new tab)

I guess this is the software nerd equivalent of buying Twitter followers?

aaaand it's gone

This is just another example of why I’d like to see some kind of platform that requires “skin in the game” to make these kinds of actions.

For GitHub, I’m not quite sure how that would work, but perhaps for a Medium type platform, you’d have to verify that you’ve read someone’s writings before you can follow them.

This is great! I can imagine this repository will be quite popular as it feeds into the developers ego (including mine). I wonder how much development is not fueled by ideals about giving back but instead about chasing stars.

Edit: Removed already, I did wonder how Github would allow this!

Hmm, My observation is that it only stars one repo (instead of all)? Looks like it...

LOL! people are staring this repo as well. So they are not wrong with their idea.

I like the name, it reminds me of the lyrics of Starboy by The Weeknd.