benbalter
Ben Balter Joined May 2010 10,362 followers View on GitHub
- Stars
- 8,558
- across 234 public repos
- Rank
- #3,911
- of 323,842 users, top 2%
- New on the board this week
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44,098 | Ruby gem & CLI to convert Word (.docx) documents to Markdown. Superseded by word-to-markdown-js at word2md.com | Ruby | 1,553 |
| 61,902 | WordPress plugin to export posts, pages & metadata to Markdown + YAML for Jekyll, Hugo, or any static site generator | PHP | 1,082 |
| 77,984 | A simple way to use GitHub OAuth to serve a protected Jekyll site to your GitHub organization | Ruby | 839 |
| 176,873 | Jekyll plugin to use any GitHub-hosted theme on GitHub Pages or any Jekyll site with remote_theme | Ruby | 339 |
| 187,477 | A Chrome extension that automatically highlights any time you are mentioned on a GitHub issue or pull request thread by highlighting your username, any team you're a member of, and the border of... | TypeScript | 317 |
| 213,823 | Convert Word (.docx) documents to clean Markdown: CLI, Node library, or in your browser at word2md.com | TypeScript | 272 |
| 271,572 | Word Diff empowers you to be a Markdown person in a Microsoft Word world by automatically converting any Word document committed to a GitHub repo to Markdown | Ruby | 204 |
| 314,493 | Ruby gem to check whether an email address or domain belongs to a government (.gov, .mil, and worldwide gov domains) | Ruby | 171 |
| 325,586 | AdGuard Home (DNS-over-HTTPS) + Caddy on a Raspberry Pi via Docker Compose & Ansible for an ad-free home network | Dockerfile | 164 |
| 332,394 | Source for ben.balter.com, Ben Balter's blog on open source, remote work, and GitHub. Built with Astro on Cloudflare | TypeScript | 160 |
| 339,363 | Maps of Washington DC area public geodata | Ruby | 156 |
| 350,523 | Jekyll plugin that turns relative links to .md files into working HTML links, like on GitHub. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 150 |
| 358,281 | Historic and current US Congressional districts as GeoJSON, versioned within Git | 146 | |
| 408,791 | Jekyll plugin to cache Liquid includes (include_cached) and speed up slow site builds. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 124 |
| 425,166 | Count total lines of code (cloc) across every repo in a GitHub organization or user, locally or via GitHub Actions | Ruby | 118 |
| 449,551 | Backs up a GitHub organization's repositories and all their associated information for archival purposes. | Ruby | 110 |
| 480,833 | A Ruby library for diffing GeoJSON files | Ruby | 101 |
| 495,825 | Jekyll plugin that sets page.title from the first Markdown heading when front matter has none. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 97 |
| 504,013 | Jekyll plugin that uses README.md as your site's index page, no index.md needed. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 95 |
| 521,246 | A collaborative list of DC locations that serve up both Internet and Alcohol | Shell | 91 |
| 525,809 | Ruby gem and CLI that checks a domain's HTTPS, HSTS, DNS, headers, cookies, WHOIS, accessibility, and tech stack | Ruby | 90 |
| 530,516 | Jekyll plugin to render Markdown files that have no YAML front matter. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 89 |
| 545,036 | Converts GitHub-flavored Markdown to a Word document | Ruby | 86 |
| 600,908 | A Travis CI compatible unit testing for WordPress plugins that utilizes the WordPress core unit testing framework and PHPUnit | PHP | 76 |
| 600,908 | A minimalist Jekyll theme for your personal site | HTML | 76 |
| 607,140 | An AI-powered GitHub Action that helps moderate community interactions by enforcing contributing guidelines and codes of conduct. | TypeScript | 75 |
| 613,548 | A hosted version of the Word to Markdown gem | Ruby | 74 |
| 613,548 | On demand generation of enterprise-grade PDFs from GitHub-hosted markdown files | Ruby | 74 |
| 663,649 | An opinionated guide to common Jekyll design patterns and anti-patterns. | Shell | 67 |
| 679,575 | A RESTful API for submitting standard HTML form data to a GitHub-hosted CSV. | CSS | 65 |
| 696,211 | Jekyll plugin that silently sets default layouts for pages and posts, no front matter needed. Supported on GitHub Pages | Ruby | 63 |
| 752,861 | A simple interface for non-technical users — both authenticated and pseudonymous — to provide feedback for your GitHub-hosted project | Ruby | 57 |
| 809,385 | Listens for GitHub post-recieve service hooks messages, runs jekyll, and pushes the results back to GitHub. | Ruby | 52 |
| 809,385 | Allows authenticated or anonymous users to fill out a standard web form to create GitHub issues (and pull requests). | Ruby | 52 |
| 834,245 | A collaborative list of open-source alternatives to typical government and enterprise software needs | HTML | 50 |
Among 323,842 users
6.3k–10k stars: 2,568 users, including benbalter
Stars along the bottom, and users in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Ruby 4.7k stars, 55% · 22 repos
- PHP 1.2k stars, 14% · 2 repos
- TypeScript 824 stars, 10% · 4 repos
- Dockerfile 164 stars, 2% · 1 repo
- Shell 158 stars, 2% · 2 repos
- HTML 126 stars, 1% · 2 repos
- CSS 65 stars, 1% · 1 repo
When they were made
35 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2012 and 2025
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +3 stars to reach #3,910
- Next milestone
- +1,376 stars to reach the top 1%
- Public repos
- 234, 35 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 17 over 100 stars, 2 over 1k stars
- Top repo
- word-to-markdown, #44,098 of all repos, 18% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 1,223 stars from repos under 50