The fact that people take GitHub stars so seriously is a perfect example of how tech lost it's way. What should be worthless Internet Points now is now a resume

The fact that people take GitHub stars so seriously is a perfect example of how tech lost it's way. What should be worthless Internet Points now is now a resume bargaining chip. By this logic, a tiny self-bootstrapping metacircular Lisp evaluator is orders of magnitude less cool than Webpack. The reality is: only one of those projects is beautiful, and actively expands the imagination.