Notices by FErki (ferki@fosstodon.org)

@musicman How about discovering the job market around PostgreSQL, interviewing various companies about their work culture and hiring approach, then post an update each month?

ps.: seeing the weird circumstances around the assignment, I originally wanted to mark the above as joke/sarcasm, but the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced it would work as a serious topic to cover.

Inspired by a 2013 tweet from @garu, I end up querying GitHub for basic #Perl project stats from time to time out of curiosity.

Here are the data points I have so far:

- 2013-09-07: ~50k repos, 11 with >500 stars, 2 with >1k stars

- 2021-11-09: ~133k repos, 129 with >500 stars, 56 with >1k stars

- 2023-11-11: ~125k repos, 156 with >500 stars, 74 with >1k stars

The query used is like `language:Perl stars:>500`

Sharing in hopes others find it interesting.

/cc @Perl