clainstone/cbirds
- Total stars
- 137
- Today · UTC
- +2since 03:42 UTC
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A flock of birds in your terminal: Craig Reynolds' boids, in braille in any terminal and as sprites in Kitty and Ghostty. One C99 program, no dependencies. Linux and macOS
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About the project
A dependency-free C99 terminal screensaver: a flock of Craig Reynolds' boids drawn in braille in any terminal and as sprites via the Kitty graphics protocol in Kitty and Ghostty.
Useful for
- Run a flock of birds as a terminal screensaver or lock screen with a clock
- Pipe fastfetch, figlet or git log output into cbirds so the letters fly as a flock
- Show a clock or a message made of birds with --clock and --say on a big screen
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 12, 2026, 04:34 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 03:42–04:26: 135 → 137 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 2 per day.
- Hacker News: “Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal” — 23 points, 1 day ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 48. +55% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 5, 2026
- 0
- October 6, 2026
- 0
- October 7, 2026
- 0
- October 8, 2026
- 0
- October 9, 2026
- 0
- October 10, 2026
- 32
- October 11, 2026
- 16
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 32 · October 10, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 12, 2026, 04:33 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 137
- Today
- +2 stars measured 2026-10-12, 03:42–04:26 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Forks
- 7
- Issues and pull requests
- 1
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- C
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v1.7.0 · October 12, 2026
- Created
- September 30, 2025
- Last push
- October 12, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal23 points, October 10, 2026
Spotted in
- October 12, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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