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Chris Wanstrath on GitHub

Chris Wanstrath

@defunkt

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  • 36K
    Total stars
  • 23K
    Followers
  • 78
    Public repos
  • 0
    Contributions

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  • Contributions: 0. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 22,824. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 36,473. Across all repos.
  • Following: 214. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 78. Owned, non-fork.

A living snapshot

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

  • 0 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 23K Followers People who follow you
  • 36K Total stars Across all repos
  • 214 Following People you follow
  • 78 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

  • Ruby is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 38%.

    High confidence

  • Most analyzed repositories (39 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 78 public repositories (51%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 0

Needs work

  • 0 contributions in the trailing year
Portfolio 32

Needs work

  • 1 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 36,473 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 59

Developing

  • 1 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
  • 40 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 3

Needs work

  • 1 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
  • 39 show no public activity in over a year
Collaboration 0

Needs work

  • 0 pull requests and 0 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 542 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
Ruby / Emacs Lisp / JavaScript / Python

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
1 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
0 PRs / 0 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
36,473 stars / 5,144 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
0 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

0
Contributions
Past 12 months
0
Current streak
No active streak
0
Longest streak
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Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for defunkt Ruby 38.0%, Emacs Lisp 35.4%, JavaScript 11.6%, Python 8.7%, Perl 1.7%, Ragel 1.3%, Other 3.2%
  • Ruby 38.0%
  • Emacs Lisp 35.4%
  • JavaScript 11.6%
  • Python 8.7%
  • Perl 1.7%
  • Ragel 1.3%
  • Other 3.2%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Frontend 100
  • DevOps 42
  • Backend 17
  • Data 17
  • Embedded 8
  • Mobile 0
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
-
No streak yet
Favourite coding day
-
Not enough data
Most active year
2024
2 contributions
Signature language
Ruby
38% of tracked code
Flagship repository
jquery-pjax
16,632 stars
On GitHub since
2007
18 years and counting

Chris Wanstrath is a developer on GitHub whose public work is written mostly in Ruby, which accounts for roughly 38% of their committed code, alongside Emacs Lisp and JavaScript. Their account holds 78 public repositories, collecting 36,473 stars in total, led by jquery-pjax at 16,632. Chris Wanstrath has been on GitHub since 2007 and is followed by 22,824 developers.

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

  1. 01

    Review resque

    High impact

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

    resque →
  2. 02

    Add topics to resque

    High impact

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

    resque →
  3. 03

    Add topics to gist

    High impact

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

    gist →
  4. 04

    Review jquery-pjax

    High impact

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

    jquery-pjax →
  5. 05

    Add topics to jquery-pjax

    High impact

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

    jquery-pjax →
  6. 06

    Add a license to resque

    Medium impact

    resque is pinned and public but has no detected license.

    resque →
  7. 07

    Add topics to dotjs

    Low impact

    dotjs has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    dotjs →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

cijoe

CI Joe is a fun Continuous Integration server. Unmaintained.

Ruby 1,047 ★ 124 forks 14 issues 19d ago
MIT GitHub

Most popular
jquery-pjax

16,632 stars

Most recently active
gist

Last pushed 3mo ago

Longest maintained
gist

Active for 18.0y

Most discoverable
jquery-pjax

75% of discoverability signals present

atom

:atom: The hackable text editor

JavaScript 60,734 ★ 17,162 forks
resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Ruby 9,473 ★ 1,658 forks
hub

A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

Go 22,954 ★ 2,224 forks
gist

Potentially the best command line gister.

Ruby 3,807 ★ 346 forks
jquery-pjax

pushState + ajax = pjax

JavaScript 16,632 ★ 1,922 forks
mustache

Logic-less Ruby templates.

Ruby 3,085 ★ 275 forks

All repositories →

Public visibility is moderately spread across several repositories rather than one or two.

Top 1 repository 46% of stars
Top 3 repositories 65% of stars
Top 5 repositories 74% of stars

Leading repository: jquery-pjax (16,632 stars, 36,473 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

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

Languages

  • Ruby 38%
  • Emacs Lisp 35%
  • JavaScript 12%
  • Python 9%
  • Perl 2%
  • Ragel 1%

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

  • jquery-pjax Dormant
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README Contributing guide No CI workflow
  • gist Established
    Popularity 22
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 65
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • unicorn Dormant
    Popularity 9
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 15
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • dotjs Dormant
    Popularity 19
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • facebox Dormant
    Popularity 12
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • pystache Dormant
    Popularity 8
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • github-gem Dormant
    Popularity 7
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • hurl Dormant
    Popularity 3
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • repl Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • cache_fu Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • cheat Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • Zen Dormant
    Popularity 1
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow

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Contatto
Esperienza
Istruzione

78
Public repos
40 analyzed
36K
Total stars
Across all repos
0
Contributions
Past 12 months
0
Pull requests
Opened this year
274
Public gists
Snippets shared
18 y
Account age
Since 2007
60 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

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Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

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Largest repository
8.6 MB
unicorn
Smallest repository
84 KB
ircamp
Oldest repository
Jan 14, 2008
exception_logger
Newest repository
Feb 26, 2014
Zen
Most starred
16,632 ★
jquery-pjax
Most forked
1,922 forks
jquery-pjax
Most watched
542 watchers
jquery-pjax
Longest description
104 characters
mofo
Most open issues
63 open
github-gem

Contribution patterns

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By year

  • 2026
    0
  • 2025
    0
  • 2024
    2
  • 2023
    1
  • 2022
    0
  • 2021
    0

By day of week

  • Sun
    0
  • Mon
    0
  • Tue
    0
  • Wed
    0
  • Thu
    0
  • Fri
    0
  • Sat
    0

Best coding day: Sun

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    0
  • Nov
    0
  • Dec
    0
  • Jan
    0
  • Feb
    0
  • Mar
    0
  • Apr
    0
  • May
    0
  • Jun
    0
  • Jul
    0
  • Aug
    0
  • Sep
    0

GitHub journey

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  1. October 2007

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @defunkt account.

  2. January 2008

    Created first repository

    Published exception_logger, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. January 2008

    First starred repository

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

  4. March 2008

    Reached 10 repositories

    sake was the 10th public repository created.

  5. February 2014

    Latest repository

    Zen is the most recently created repository.

  6. June 2024

    Most productive year: 2024

    2 contributions recorded in 2024, more than any other year on record.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

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2008

Started with Ruby.

Emacs Lisp HTML JavaScript Ruby
Repos this year
21
Total repos
21
Stars, as of today
9.9k
gist
2009

Went deeper into Ruby.

JavaScript Python Ruby
Repos this year
10
Total repos
31
Stars, as of today
16k
unicorn
2010

Went deeper into Ruby.

CoffeeScript Emacs Lisp Ruby
Repos this year
5
Total repos
36
Stars, as of today
16k
coffee-mode
2011

Shifted from Ruby to JavaScript.

JavaScript Ruby
Repos this year
2
Total repos
38
Stars, as of today
36k
jquery-pjax
2013

Shipped 1 repository.

Repos this year
1
Total repos
39
Stars, as of today
36k
resque
2014

Started with CoffeeScript.

CoffeeScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
36k
Zen

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

Achievements

5 / 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

36,473
Stars received
542
Repositories starred
5,144
Forks received
274
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2008
  • Emacs Lisp
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
2009
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
2010
  • CoffeeScript
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Ruby
2011
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
2014
  • CoffeeScript

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

21 repositories created in 2008 10 repositories created in 2009 5 repositories created in 2010 2 repositories created in 2011 1 repositories created in 2013 1 repositories created in 2014 21 total repositories by end of 2008 31 total repositories by end of 2009 36 total repositories by end of 2010 38 total repositories by end of 2011 39 total repositories by end of 2013 40 total repositories by end of 2014 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages →
  • Ruby
  • Emacs Lisp
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ragel