From Read Luigi Mangione’s Resume - Ken Klippenstein I found https://github.com/lnmangione. At the moment he has 2.5k followers on this account. Which is quite a lot for github, and I am guessing 100% accrued in the past few days. AFAIK there is no way to get the history of the metric.

There is history available on repo “stars”. GitHub Star History for the repo lnmangione/Halite-III, which seems to be the most popular:

And they are opening issue reports:

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Some people are making what seem like legitimate (not jokes/political) PRs in old repos. Very strange.

Update: When logged in to github I notice you cannot actually create an issue or comment on a previously created issue anymore:

Not sure when this was implemented, or by whom.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    11 days ago

    I’d be so embarrassed if thousands of people were going through my github repos. That place is a graveyard testament to my inability to finish things.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      11 days ago

      the main reason I can’t kill any CEOs is because I can’t handle the thought of people poring over my digital spoor

    • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      11 days ago

      mine is a testament to my abililty to start something just barely and then again a year later, and again a year later, each time making it just as far as the last time

    • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      13·
      11 days ago

      This account just has a few cursory demo projects in it; very little activity. I assume if you work in development you make an account like this just as a placeholder. I think more interesting is the traffic of others subsequent to his arrest.