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%
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Repositories with 50+ stars

benbalter's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
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 Superseded by word-to-markdown-js at word2md.com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

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35 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2012 and 2025

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word-to-markdown, #44,098 of all repos, 18% of stars
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