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A Star Is Vanity. This One Wasn't.

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Stars are vanity. Everyone says so, and everyone is right. Then Dietrich Gebert , the founder of Ponytail , a repo with around 164k stars of its own, starred one of mine. I'd messaged him out of the blue. That's the part I almost didn't do. The senior dev who writes one line If you haven't met Pony…

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  1. 2026-10-16 10:40 · DEV Community — AI
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