A while back I said to a friend, half joking: “With the amount of AI I’m burning through, if I ever did get to be a boss, I’d squeeze my underlings harder than any boss I’ve ever had.” Then I got a little curious myself — is there actually any data behind that feeling?

So I pulled every commit and PR timestamp from 2025 and 2026 across all my repositories (40+) with the gh CLI, and looked at the distribution from two angles: volume and timing. Let’s see how black-hearted I really am.

The way I star GitHub repositories is pretty much the same as how I like and collect videos on bilibili: I just click them on a whim. Whenever I see a project that looks even remotely interesting, my brain always goes “might be useful someday” or “I’ll take a look later” — and my finger clicks the button before my brain finishes the thought.

That’s how, over the years, my star count quietly climbed past 800. To be honest, I have no idea what those 800+ projects actually are — most of them were starred because they seemed useful back then, and then never opened again.

After upgrading my blog, I decided to do some cosmetic work on my GitHub profile…