I got fed up with GitHub Trending, so I built my own ranker. Here's what I learned.

So we run a tech newsletter, and I used to spend my whole Sunday trying to find repos worth writing about. Github trending was useless. it's either huge projects everyone knows already or random stuff that got lucky on HN and then died. so I got annoyed enough to build something. it works way better. but the real lesson was how much junk you have to filter out before the ranking even matters. stuff I ended up filtering: dead repos with huge star counts. you'd be shocked how many 15k-star repos h