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Ben Newman

@benjamn

  • Apollo Graph, Inc (formerly: Meteor, Facebook/Instagram, Quora, Mozilla)
  • New York City
  • 8,236
    Total stars
  • 2,930
    Followers
  • 53
    Public repos
  • 3,436
    Contributions

236 following

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  • Contributions: 3,436. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 2,930. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 8,236. Across all repos.
  • Following: 236. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 53. Owned, non-fork.

A living snapshot

Every leaf is a headline number from Ben Newman’s public GitHub. The canopy fills out as the work grows - sway and all.

  • 3,436 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 2,930 Followers People who follow you
  • 8,236 Total stars Across all repos
  • 236 Following People you follow
  • 53 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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What your GitHub says

Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated

  • JavaScript is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 61%.

    High confidence

  • Public visibility is concentrated: the top 3 analyzed repositories account for 87% of total stars, led by recast.

    Medium confidence

  • Public GitHub activity is evenly spread across commits, pull requests, reviews and issues.

    Medium confidence

  • Most analyzed repositories (36 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 53 public repositories (75%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 85

Strong

  • 3,436 contributions in the trailing year
  • 4-day current streak
Portfolio 34

Needs work

  • 2 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 8,236 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 43

Needs work

  • 2 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
  • 39 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 5

Needs work

  • 2 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
  • 36 show no public activity in over a year
Collaboration 91

Strong

  • 78 pull requests and 39 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 221 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS / Emacs Lisp

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
2 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
78 PRs / 39 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
8,236 stars / 746 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
12 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

Strongest signals

  • 78 pull requests and 39 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 3,436 contributions in the trailing year

3,436
Contributions
Past 12 months
4
Current streak
Sep 20, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026
18
Longest streak
Mar 18, 2026 – Apr 4, 2026
Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for benjamn JavaScript 60.7%, TypeScript 14.0%, CSS 12.6%, Emacs Lisp 6.8%, HTML 2.3%, C 1.9%, Other 1.7%
  • JavaScript 60.7%
  • TypeScript 14.0%
  • CSS 12.6%
  • Emacs Lisp 6.8%
  • HTML 2.3%
  • C 1.9%
  • Other 1.7%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Frontend 100
  • DevOps 24
  • Backend 15
  • Data 15
  • Embedded 9
  • Mobile 0
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
18d
Mar 2026
Favourite coding day
Sunday
341 contributions
Most active year
2021
1,547 contributions
Signature language
JavaScript
61% of tracked code
Flagship repository
recast
5,253 stars
On GitHub since
2008
18 years and counting

Ben Newman is a developer on GitHub whose public work is written mostly in JavaScript, which accounts for roughly 61% of their committed code, alongside TypeScript and CSS. Their account holds 53 public repositories, collecting 8,236 stars in total, led by recast at 5,253. In the trailing year the account logged 3,436 contributions, including a longest run of 18 consecutive active days. Ben Newman has been on GitHub since 2008 and is followed by 2,930 developers.

This overview is generated from Ben Newman’s public GitHub activity at the time of the last refresh. Figures cover public repositories and the trailing twelve months of contributions.

  1. 01

    Add topics to recast

    High impact

    recast is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    recast →
  2. 02

    Review reify

    High impact

    reify is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    reify →
  3. 03

    Add topics to reify

    High impact

    reify is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    reify →
  4. 04

    Review optimism

    High impact

    optimism is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    optimism →
  5. 05

    Add topics to optimism

    High impact

    optimism is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    optimism →
  6. 06

    Add topics to ast-types

    High impact

    ast-types is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    ast-types →
  7. 07

    Review arson

    High impact

    arson is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    arson →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator

TypeScript 5,253 ★ 365 forks 166 issues 2d ago

Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API

TypeScript 1,175 ★ 196 forks 93 issues 2d ago

Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.

JavaScript 741 ★ 30 forks 27 issues 5d ago

Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects

JavaScript 200 ★ 7 forks 2 issues 5d ago

Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.

TypeScript 120 ★ 19 forks 1 issues 5d ago

A collection of packages that are probably a little too clever. Use at your own wrisk.

TypeScript 92 ★ 16 forks 12 issues 5d ago

Utility for associating truly private state with any JavaScript object

JavaScript 57 ★ 6 forks 3 issues 18d ago

Most popular
recast

5,253 stars

Most recently active
ast-types

Last pushed 14d ago

Longest maintained
recast

Active for 14.0y

Most discoverable
immutable-tuple

100% of discoverability signals present

recast

JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator

TypeScript 5,253 ★ 365 forks
reify

Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.

JavaScript 741 ★ 30 forks
optimism

Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.

TypeScript 120 ★ 19 forks
ast-types

Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API

TypeScript 1,175 ★ 196 forks
arson

Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects

JavaScript 200 ★ 7 forks
wryware

A collection of packages that are probably a little too clever. Use at your own wrisk.

TypeScript 92 ★ 16 forks

  • recast 5,253 ★

    JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator

  • ast-types 1,175 ★

    Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API

  • reify 741 ★

    Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.

  • A standalone version of Google's new rich text editor, Kix

  • arson 200 ★

    Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects

  • optimism 120 ★

    Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.

All repositories →

Public visibility is concentrated in a small number of projects - these are the strongest candidates to feature on a resume.

Top 1 repository 64% of stars
Top 3 repositories 87% of stars
Top 5 repositories 93% of stars

Leading repository: recast (5,253 stars, 8,236 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

Derived from repository languages and topics - horizontal bars, never a pie.

Languages

  • JavaScript 61%
  • TypeScript 14%
  • CSS 13%
  • Emacs Lisp 7%
  • HTML 2%
  • C 2%

README, contributing-guide and GitHub Actions badges below are detected by exact filename on each repository’s default branch - they report presence, not quality.

  • recast Established
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • ast-types Established
    Popularity 24
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • Popularity 1
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • install Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README Contributing guide No CI workflow
  • Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README Contributing guide No CI workflow
  • optimism Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 15
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • reify Dormant
    Popularity 14
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • Popularity 7
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • arson Dormant
    Popularity 4
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • wryware Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • Popularity 1
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow

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53
Public repos
40 analyzed
8,236
Total stars
Across all repos
3,436
Contributions
Past 12 months
78
Pull requests
Opened this year
68
Public gists
Snippets shared
18 y
Account age
Since 2008
80 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

Largest repository
15.2 MB
empirenode-2015
Smallest repository
4 KB
babel-plugin-jscript
Oldest repository
Sep 15, 2008
voodoodown
Newest repository
Jan 6, 2023
garden
Most starred
5,253 ★
recast
Most forked
365 forks
recast
Most watched
42 watchers
recast
Longest description
125 characters
cls
Most open issues
166 open
recast

Contribution patterns

By year

  • 2026
    1,522
  • 2025
    653
  • 2024
    437
  • 2023
    434
  • 2022
    759
  • 2021
    1,547

By day of week

  • Sun
    341
  • Mon
    284
  • Tue
    223
  • Wed
    299
  • Thu
    253
  • Fri
    240
  • Sat
    181

Best coding day: Sun

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    39
  • Nov
    54
  • Dec
    167
  • Jan
    88
  • Feb
    121
  • Mar
    412
  • Apr
    147
  • May
    152
  • Jun
    118
  • Jul
    77
  • Aug
    186
  • Sep
    221

GitHub journey

  1. April 2008

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @benjamn account.

  2. September 2008

    Created first repository

    Published voodoodown, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. September 2008

    First starred repository

    voodoodown is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. September 2012

    Reached 10 repositories

    recast was the 10th public repository created.

  5. June 2021

    Most productive year: 2021

    1,547 contributions recorded in 2021, more than any other year on record.

  6. January 2023

    Latest repository

    garden is the most recently created repository.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

2008

Started with JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
2
Total repos
2
Stars, as of today
5
patches
2009

Shifted from JavaScript to Emacs Lisp.

Emacs Lisp Python
Repos this year
3
Total repos
5
Stars, as of today
14
project-euler
2010

Shifted from Emacs Lisp to JavaScript.

JavaScript Python
Repos this year
4
Total repos
9
Stars, as of today
334
kix-standalone
2012

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript TypeScript
Repos this year
2
Total repos
11
Stars, as of today
5.6k
recast
2013

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript TypeScript
Repos this year
8
Total repos
19
Stars, as of today
6.9k
ast-types
2014

Went deeper into JavaScript.

C C++ JavaScript
Repos this year
8
Total repos
27
Stars, as of today
7.0k
es7-async-await
2015

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
5
Total repos
32
Stars, as of today
7.0k
jsnext-skeleton
2016

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript TypeScript
Repos this year
3
Total repos
35
Stars, as of today
8.1k
reify
2018

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
36
Stars, as of today
8.1k
immutable-tuple
2019

Shifted from JavaScript to C.

C TypeScript
Repos this year
2
Total repos
38
Stars, as of today
8.2k
wryware
2021

Shifted from C to TypeScript.

TypeScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
39
Stars, as of today
8.2k
Contributions
1,547
deno_modules
2023

Shifted from TypeScript to SCSS.

SCSS
Repos this year
1
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
8.2k
Contributions
434
garden

Built from benjamn’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.

Achievements

6 / 9 unlocked

Explorer
Created repositories in 8 or more languages
Builder
More than 50 public repositories
Open Source Enthusiast
100+ stars received across all repositories
Consistent
A 100-day-or-longer contribution streak
Documentation Hero
5 or more repositories with a detailed description
Popular
500 or more followers
Prolific Committer
1,000 or more commits in the past 12 months
Long Timer
5 or more years on GitHub
Star Collector
Starred 100 or more repositories

Open source activity

8,236
Stars received
221
Repositories starred
746
Forks received
78
Pull requests opened
Past 12 months
39
Reviews given
Past 12 months
68
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2008
  • JavaScript
2009
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Python
2010
  • JavaScript
  • Python
2012
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
2013
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
2014
  • C
  • C++
  • JavaScript
2015
  • JavaScript
2016
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
2018
  • JavaScript
2019
  • C
  • TypeScript
2021
  • TypeScript
2023
  • SCSS

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

2 repositories created in 2008 3 repositories created in 2009 4 repositories created in 2010 2 repositories created in 2012 8 repositories created in 2013 8 repositories created in 2014 5 repositories created in 2015 3 repositories created in 2016 1 repositories created in 2018 2 repositories created in 2019 1 repositories created in 2021 1 repositories created in 2023 2 total repositories by end of 2008 5 total repositories by end of 2009 9 total repositories by end of 2010 11 total repositories by end of 2012 19 total repositories by end of 2013 27 total repositories by end of 2014 32 total repositories by end of 2015 35 total repositories by end of 2016 36 total repositories by end of 2018 38 total repositories by end of 2019 39 total repositories by end of 2021 40 total repositories by end of 2023 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2023 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Emacs Lisp
  • HTML
  • C