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You’re probably running code from people who quit years ago

You’re probably running code from people who quit years ago

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In Hindi, bhoot means ghost. It also means the past. Every old repo has both. There are people who stopped committing years ago, and their code still runs every time someone types npm start. And there

In Hindi, bhoot means ghost. It also means the past. Every old repo has both. There are people who stopped committing years ago, and their code still runs every time someone types npm start. And there are files that lived for a few hundred commits and got deleted, with the reason sitting in a commit message nobody reads. So I built Bhoot. It reads a repo's git history on your laptop and finds two things: Ghosts. People silent for a year or more whose lines git blame still finds at HEAD. Graves.

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