So the other day I woke up and one of my projects, Harvey (autonomous sales agent powered by your claude/codex subscription) jumped from 100 to 250 stars overnight. In 3 days its at almost 800 stars. It's getting ~2.5k visitors per day currently with 90% of traffic from Google.

I hadn't touched the project in a while but made sure it was very optimized in the past. So make sure to optimize your repos for organic search!

Reliability issues are driving users away in their droves.

What actually makes someone credible on GitHub over time?

I’m still pretty early in my programming journey, and I’m trying to understand something that GitHub stats don’t really answer.

I’m not looking for a job right now, and I’m not trying to grow followers or collect stars. I want to spend the next few years becoming someone whose work other developers and maintainers can actually trust.

I’ve started contributing to open-source projects and maintaining some projects of my own, but I’m not sure what matters most long term.

For people who have been using GitHub professionally or maintaining open-source projects for years: when you look at someone’s history, what makes you think, “this person is a solid contributor”?

Is it mostly:

staying in one ecosystem for a long time?

getting meaningful PRs merged?

fixing difficult bugs?

participating in reviews and technical discussions?

maintaining something useful yourself?

consistency over several years?

I’m especially interested in what doesn’t help. Are there things younger developers often do because they think it looks impressive, but experienced maintainers actually see as noise?

If you were starting again and had 2–3 years to build real credibility on GitHub, what would you focus on?

for the record, i don't know shit about how github works and github, yesterday i wanted to install OpenShell to make my windows 11 look like windows 7, the download came in a master file and i don't know how to make it normal. the other branches are the same, i heard something about github reposetories, and looking up i haven't found anyone asking about this.

windows updates break stuff way too often (black screens, audio, remote desktop) and the dumb part is microsoft usually lists the problem publicly. nobody checks that before updating

so i made patchlight. it checks every pending update against microsoft's known issues and gives it a green / yellow / red light. red ones get paused automatically and come back once microsoft fixes them. everything else keeps installing

github.com/G4SBO/PatchLight

lmk what u think, any feedback is appreciated ;)

Hey everyone!
I recently applied for the GitHub Student Developer Pack, but I ran into some issues during the application process.
GitHub asks for location information to help verify my student status, but I’m currently not at my school because it’s on holiday. I also uploaded a picture of my student ID as proof of enrollment, but I blurred out my face for privacy reasons.
When I first clicked the submit button, I got an error message saying that something had gone wrong. So I tried submitting the application again, and this time GitHub told me that my application was currently being processed.
However, I haven’t received any email confirming this, and my GitHub Education dashboard still shows the option to apply instead of indicating that my application is pending.
I’ve already submitted a support ticket to GitHub Education, but I wanted to ask here as well:
Is there anything else I can or should do right now?
Could the application still be processing even though the dashboard doesn’t show a pending status?
How long did it take for GitHub Education Support to respond to your ticket?
I’m really looking forward to using the Student Developer Pack, so I’d appreciate any advice or experiences you can share.
Thanks in advance!