Evidence

Format Web Page

"GitCharts recorded 22,547,163 GitHub forks during the 30 days ending August 29, 2026."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title GitCharts - GitHub Statistics

Source authors Dan

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"GitHub reported 630 million total repositories and 395 million public or open-source repositories in its 2025 Octoverse."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1

Source authors GitHub Staff

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Linus Torvalds said Git became self-hosting after about a day and reached its first Linux kernel commit after roughly ten days."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title 10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds

Source authors The Linux Foundation

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"Git was created in 2005 after the Linux kernel community’s relationship with BitKeeper broke down and its free access was revoked."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title 1.2 Getting Started - A Short History of Git

Source authors Scott Chacon; Ben Straub

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Guido van Rossum began Python as a hobby project around Christmas 1989 and described it as a descendant of ABC intended to appeal to Unix and C hackers."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title Foreword for "Programming Python" (1st ed.)

Source authors Guido van Rossum

Source year 1996

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"In March 2016 Azer Koçulu unpublished kik and 272 other npm packages including left-pad, disrupting many thousands of projects for about 2.5 hours."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title kik, left-pad, and npm

Source authors npm

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"The 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need proposed the Transformer architecture based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolution."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title Attention Is All You Need

Source authors Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Eric S. Raymond contrasts cathedral-style development with the Linux-style bazaar model and argues that distributed open-source development can be effective."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Source authors Eric Steven Raymond

Source year 2002

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Richard Stallman wrote the GNU Manifesto in 1985 to seek support for development of GNU."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title The GNU Manifesto

Source authors Richard Stallman

Source year 1985

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project on September 27, 1983."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES A Pint Is All You Need

Source title Initial Announcement

Source authors Richard Stallman

Source year 1983

Confidence high

Importance mid