JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator
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Data from GitHub API- 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
Data from GitHub API · refreshed in real time
What your GitHub says
Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated
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JavaScript is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 61%.
High confidence
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Public visibility is concentrated: the top 3 analyzed repositories account for 87% of total stars, led by recast.
Medium confidence
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Public GitHub activity is evenly spread across commits, pull requests, reviews and issues.
Medium confidence
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Most analyzed repositories (36 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.
Medium confidence
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This analysis covers 40 of 53 public repositories (75%); broader totals may differ.
High confidence
Profile health
Signals from analyzed public data
Strong
- 3,436 contributions in the trailing year
- 4-day current streak
Needs work
- 2 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
- 8,236 stars across analyzed repositories
Needs work
- 2 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
- 39 of 40 have no topic tags
Needs work
- 2 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
- 36 show no public activity in over a year
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
Largest language shares across analyzed repositories
Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained
Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year
Summed across analyzed repositories
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
- JavaScript 60.7%
- TypeScript 14.0%
- CSS 12.6%
- Emacs Lisp 6.8%
- HTML 2.3%
- C 1.9%
- Other 1.7%
- Frontend 100
- DevOps 24
- Backend 15
- Data 15
- Embedded 9
- Mobile 0
- AI 0
- Security 0
- Game Dev 0
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.
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Add topics to recast
High impactrecast is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.
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Review reify
High impactreify is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.
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Add topics to reify
High impactreify is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.
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Review optimism
High impactoptimism is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.
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Add topics to optimism
High impactoptimism is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.
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Add topics to ast-types
High impactast-types is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.
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Review arson
High impactarson is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.
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How these are calculated: see the methodology page .
Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API
Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.
Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects
Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.
A standalone version of Google's new rich text editor, Kix
A collection of packages that are probably a little too clever. Use at your own wrisk.
Minimal JavaScript module loader
Utility for associating truly private state with any JavaScript object
JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator
Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.
Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.
Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API
Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects
A collection of packages that are probably a little too clever. Use at your own wrisk.
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recast 5,253 ★
JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator
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ast-types 1,175 ★
Esprima-compatible implementation of the Mozilla JS Parser API
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reify 741 ★
Enable ECMAScript 2015 modules in Node today. No caveats. Full stop.
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kix-standalone 316 ★
A standalone version of Google's new rich text editor, Kix
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arson 200 ★
Efficient encoder and decoder for arbitrary objects
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optimism 120 ★
Composable reactive caching with efficient invalidation.
Public visibility is concentrated in a small number of projects - these are the strongest candidates to feature on a resume.
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
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JavaScript 61%
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TypeScript 14%
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CSS 13%
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Emacs Lisp 7%
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HTML 2%
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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.
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recast EstablishedPopularity 100Discoverability 50Maintenance 85README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
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ast-types EstablishedPopularity 24Discoverability 50Maintenance 100README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
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immutable-tuple DormantPopularity 1Discoverability 100Maintenance 0README No contributing guide No CI workflow
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install DormantPopularity 2Discoverability 75Maintenance 0README No contributing guide No CI workflow
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empirenode-2015 DormantPopularity 0Discoverability 75Maintenance 0README Contributing guide No CI workflow
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devshop-july-2015 DormantPopularity 0Discoverability 75Maintenance 0README Contributing guide No CI workflow
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optimism DormantPopularity 2Discoverability 50Maintenance 15README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
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reify DormantPopularity 14Discoverability 50Maintenance 0README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
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kix-standalone ArchivedPopularity 7Discoverability 50Maintenance 0No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
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arson DormantPopularity 4Discoverability 50Maintenance 0README No contributing guide No CI workflow
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wryware DormantPopularity 2Discoverability 50Maintenance 0README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
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jsnext-skeleton ArchivedPopularity 1Discoverability 50Maintenance 0README No contributing guide No CI workflow
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Coding statistics
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Contribution patterns
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By year
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2026
1,522
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2025
653
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2024
437
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2023
434
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2022
759
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2021
1,547
By day of week
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Sun
341
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Mon
284
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Tue
223
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Wed
299
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Thu
253
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Fri
240
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Sat
181
Best coding day: Sun
By month (last 12)
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Oct
39
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Nov
54
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Dec
167
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Jan
88
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Feb
121
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Mar
412
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Apr
147
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May
152
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Jun
118
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Jul
77
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Aug
186
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Sep
221
GitHub journey
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April 2008
Joined GitHub
Created the @benjamn account.
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September 2008
Created first repository
Published voodoodown, the oldest repository still on the account.
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September 2008
First starred repository
voodoodown is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.
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September 2012
Reached 10 repositories
recast was the 10th public repository created.
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June 2021
Most productive year: 2021
1,547 contributions recorded in 2021, more than any other year on record.
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January 2023
Latest repository
garden is the most recently created repository.
Developer evolution
Your GitHub career, year by year.
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Started with JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 2
- Total repos
- 2
- Stars, as of today
- 5
Shifted from JavaScript to Emacs Lisp.
- Repos this year
- 3
- Total repos
- 5
- Stars, as of today
- 14
Shifted from Emacs Lisp to JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 4
- Total repos
- 9
- Stars, as of today
- 334
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 2
- Total repos
- 11
- Stars, as of today
- 5.6k
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 8
- Total repos
- 19
- Stars, as of today
- 6.9k
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 8
- Total repos
- 27
- Stars, as of today
- 7.0k
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 5
- Total repos
- 32
- Stars, as of today
- 7.0k
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 3
- Total repos
- 35
- Stars, as of today
- 8.1k
Went deeper into JavaScript.
- Repos this year
- 1
- Total repos
- 36
- Stars, as of today
- 8.1k
Shifted from JavaScript to C.
- Repos this year
- 2
- Total repos
- 38
- Stars, as of today
- 8.2k
Shifted from C to TypeScript.
- Repos this year
- 1
- Total repos
- 39
- Stars, as of today
- 8.2k
- Contributions
- 1,547
Shifted from TypeScript to SCSS.
- Repos this year
- 1
- Total repos
- 40
- Stars, as of today
- 8.2k
- Contributions
- 434
Built from benjamn’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.
Achievements
6 / 9 unlocked
Open source activity
Language evolution
The primary languages of repositories created each year.
- JavaScript
- Emacs Lisp
- Python
- JavaScript
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- C
- C++
- JavaScript
- JavaScript
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C
- TypeScript
- TypeScript
- SCSS
Repository growth
Repositories created per year, and the running total.
Language tree
Built automatically from repository languages and topics.
Programming Languages →
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Emacs Lisp
- HTML
- C