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Kenneth Reitz

@kennethreitz

I wrote Requests: HTTP for Humans and Pipenv. The only thing I really care about is user experience.

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  • 20K
    Total stars
  • 30K
    Followers
  • 48
    Public repos
  • 5,095
    Contributions

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  • Contributions: 5,095. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 30,135. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 20,431. Across all repos.
  • Following: 215. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 48. Owned, non-fork.

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

  • 5,095 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 30K Followers People who follow you
  • 20K Total stars Across all repos
  • 215 Following People you follow
  • 48 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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What your GitHub says

Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated

  • HTML is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 94%.

    High confidence

  • Public GitHub activity is implementation-heavy: commits account for 99% of tracked contribution activity.

    Medium confidence

  • Most analyzed repositories (22 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 48 public repositories (83%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 70

Developing

  • 5,095 contributions in the trailing year
Portfolio 48

Developing

  • 10 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 20,431 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 64

Developing

  • Every analyzed repository has a description
  • 22 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 25

Needs work

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

Needs work

  • 43 pull requests and 1 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 2,256 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
HTML / Python / LLVM / Swift

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
10 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
43 PRs / 1 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
20,431 stars / 1,776 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
12 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

Strongest signals

  • 5,095 contributions in the trailing year
  • Every analyzed repository has a description

5,095
Contributions
Past 12 months
0
Current streak
No active streak
20
Longest streak
Nov 20, 2025 – Dec 9, 2025
Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for kennethreitz HTML 93.8%, Python 4.0%, LLVM 0.8%, Swift 0.8%, JavaScript 0.3%, CSS 0.1%, Other 0.2%
  • HTML 93.8%
  • Python 4.0%
  • LLVM 0.8%
  • Swift 0.8%
  • JavaScript 0.3%
  • CSS 0.1%
  • Other 0.2%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Backend 100
  • Data 97
  • Frontend 39
  • DevOps 24
  • Mobile 6
  • Embedded 6
  • AI 3
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
20d
Nov 2025
Favourite coding day
Sunday
968 contributions
Most active year
2025
3,171 contributions
Signature language
HTML
94% of tracked code
Flagship repository
records
7,219 stars
On GitHub since
2009
17 years and counting

Kenneth Reitz maintains a public GitHub presence built primarily around HTML, which accounts for roughly 94% of their committed code, alongside Python and LLVM. The profile lists 48 public repositories that have attracted 20,431 stars, led by records at 7,219. Over the past year they recorded 5,095 contributions, including a longest run of 20 consecutive active days. Kenneth Reitz has been on GitHub since 2009 and is followed by 30,135 developers.

This overview is generated from Kenneth Reitz’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 simplemind

    High impact

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

    simplemind →
  2. 02

    Consider featuring responder instead of simplemind

    Medium impact

    responder shows stronger recent activity and discoverability signals than simplemind, which is currently pinned.

    responder →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

responder

A familiar HTTP Service Framework for Python.

  • http-framework
  • python
  • flask
  • falcon
Python 3,615 ★ 217 forks 6d ago
Apache-2.0 Live demo GitHub
maya

Datetimes for Humans™

  • datetimes
  • dates
  • times
  • date
Python 3,410 ★ 197 forks 20 issues 22d ago
MIT GitHub
requests3

Requests 3.0, for Humans and Machines, alike. 🤖

  • http
  • http-client
  • python3
  • forhumans
Python 791 ★ 37 forks 17d ago
CC0-1.0 Live demo GitHub
bake

Bake — the strangely familiar workflow utility.

  • bash
  • make
  • bake
  • bakefile
Python 638 ★ 24 forks 14 issues 2mo ago
ISC GitHub
simplemind

Python API client for AI providers that intends to replace LangChain and LangGraph for most common use cases.

  • ai
  • api-client
  • langchain
  • llms
Python 537 ★ 31 forks 9 issues 15d ago
Apache-2.0 Live demo GitHub

Most popular
records

7,219 stars

Most recently active
kennethreitz.org

Last pushed 19d ago

Longest maintained
coinbin.org

Active for 9.1y

Most discoverable
records

100% of discoverability signals present

requests

A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

Python 54,339 ★ 10,690 forks
pipenv

Python Development Workflow for Humans.

Python 25,027 ★ 1,880 forks
python-guide

Python best practices guidebook, written for humans.

Batchfile 29,820 ★ 5,883 forks
requests-html

Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™

Python 13,807 ★ 996 forks
records

SQL for Humans™

Python 7,219 ★ 570 forks
simplemind

Python API client for AI providers that intends to replace LangChain and LangGraph for most common use cases.

Python 537 ★ 31 forks

  • records 7,219 ★

    SQL for Humans™

  • responder 3,615 ★

    A familiar HTTP Service Framework for Python.

  • maya 3,410 ★

    Datetimes for Humans™

  • pytheory 1,644 ★

    Music Theory for Humans.

  • requests3 791 ★

    Requests 3.0, for Humans and Machines, alike. 🤖

  • bake 638 ★

    Bake — the strangely familiar workflow utility.

All repositories →

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

Top 1 repository 35% of stars
Top 3 repositories 70% of stars
Top 5 repositories 82% of stars

Leading repository: records (7,219 stars, 20,431 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

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

Languages

  • HTML 94%
  • Python 4%
  • LLVM 1%
  • Swift 1%
  • JavaScript 0%
  • CSS 0%

Frameworks

  • Flask 100%

Databases

  • Sql 50%
  • Postgres 50%

DevOps

  • Kubernetes 50%
  • K8s 50%

Tools

  • Graphql 50%
  • Api 50%

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

  • records Developing
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 40
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • responder Established
    Popularity 49
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 3 workflows
  • pytheory Established
    Popularity 22
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • kjvstudy.org Established
    Popularity 1
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • interpretations Maintained
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • kennethreitz.org Established
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • fetch.py Experimental
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • coinbin.org Established
    Popularity 4
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 65
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • RetroVault Maintained
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • simplemind Dormant
    Popularity 7
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 15
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • maya Dormant
    Popularity 46
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • ableton-pytheory Maintained
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 65
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow

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48
Public repos
40 analyzed
20K
Total stars
Across all repos
5,095
Contributions
Past 12 months
43
Pull requests
Opened this year
262
Public gists
Snippets shared
17 y
Account age
Since 2009
90 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

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Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

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Largest repository
2.2 GB
interpretations
Smallest repository
7 KB
notebooks
Oldest repository
Feb 17, 2010
open-icons
Newest repository
Sep 15, 2026
fetch.py
Most starred
7,219 ★
records
Most forked
570 forks
records
Most watched
182 watchers
records
Longest description
190 characters
kjvstudy.org
Most open issues
43 open
records

Contribution patterns

→

By year

  • 2026
    3,090
  • 2025
    3,171
  • 2024
    1,725
  • 2023
    239
  • 2022
    44
  • 2021
    23

By day of week

  • Sun
    968
  • Mon
    602
  • Tue
    743
  • Wed
    603
  • Thu
    529
  • Fri
    744
  • Sat
    468

Best coding day: Sun

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    79
  • Nov
    823
  • Dec
    604
  • Jan
    30
  • Feb
    10
  • Mar
    901
  • Apr
    608
  • May
    6
  • Jun
    882
  • Jul
    438
  • Aug
    201
  • Sep
    14

GitHub journey

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  1. August 2009

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @kennethreitz account.

  2. February 2010

    Created first repository

    Published open-icons, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. February 2010

    First starred repository

    open-icons is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. August 2011

    Reached 10 repositories

    resources was the 10th public repository created.

  5. June 2025

    Most productive year: 2025

    3,171 contributions recorded in 2025, more than any other year on record.

  6. September 2026

    Latest repository

    fetch.py is the most recently created repository.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

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2010

Started with Python.

PHP Python
Repos this year
5
Total repos
5
Stars, as of today
396
clint
2011

Went deeper into Python.

HTML JavaScript Python
Repos this year
6
Total repos
11
Stars, as of today
846
dive-into-python3
2012

Went deeper into Python.

Python
Repos this year
1
Total repos
12
Stars, as of today
958
env
2014

Went deeper into Python.

Python
Repos this year
1
Total repos
13
Stars, as of today
8.2k
records
2016

Shifted from Python to HTML.

HTML Python
Repos this year
2
Total repos
15
Stars, as of today
12k
maya
2017

Shifted from HTML to Python.

HTML Lua Python
Repos this year
5
Total repos
20
Stars, as of today
13k
crayons
2018

Went deeper into Python.

Python
Repos this year
4
Total repos
24
Stars, as of today
18k
responder
2019

Went deeper into Python.

Python
Repos this year
2
Total repos
26
Stars, as of today
20k
requests3
2020

Shifted from Python to Jupyter Notebook.

Jupyter Notebook
Repos this year
1
Total repos
27
Stars, as of today
20k
notebooks
2024

Shifted from Jupyter Notebook to Python.

Python
Repos this year
4
Total repos
31
Stars, as of today
20k
Contributions
1,725
simplemind
2025

Shifted from Python to HTML.

HTML Python
Repos this year
2
Total repos
33
Stars, as of today
20k
Contributions
3,171
mcp-applemusic
2026

Shifted from HTML to Python.

Python Swift TypeScript
Repos this year
7
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
20k
Contributions
3,090
ableton-pytheory

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

Achievements

7 / 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

20,431
Stars received
2,256
Repositories starred
1,776
Forks received
8
Issues opened
Past 12 months
43
Pull requests opened
Past 12 months
1
Reviews given
Past 12 months
262
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2010
  • PHP
  • Python
2011
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Python
2012
  • Python
2014
  • Python
2016
  • HTML
  • Python
2017
  • HTML
  • Lua
  • Python
2018
  • Python
2019
  • Python
2020
  • Jupyter Notebook
2024
  • Python
2025
  • HTML
  • Python
2026
  • Python
  • Swift
  • TypeScript

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

5 repositories created in 2010 6 repositories created in 2011 1 repositories created in 2012 1 repositories created in 2014 2 repositories created in 2016 5 repositories created in 2017 4 repositories created in 2018 2 repositories created in 2019 1 repositories created in 2020 4 repositories created in 2024 2 repositories created in 2025 7 repositories created in 2026 5 total repositories by end of 2010 11 total repositories by end of 2011 12 total repositories by end of 2012 13 total repositories by end of 2014 15 total repositories by end of 2016 20 total repositories by end of 2017 24 total repositories by end of 2018 26 total repositories by end of 2019 27 total repositories by end of 2020 31 total repositories by end of 2024 33 total repositories by end of 2025 40 total repositories by end of 2026 2010 2011 2012 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2024 2025 2026 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages →
  • HTML
  • Python
  • LLVM
  • Swift
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
Frontend & Backend →
  • Flask 1
Data & Storage →
  • Sql 1
  • Postgres 1
Cloud & DevOps →
  • Kubernetes 1
  • K8s 1
Tooling →
  • Graphql 1
  • Api 1