# clainstone/cbirds

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.8 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 139 total · +4 stars measured 2026-10-12, 03:42–05:49 UTC, ≈ 17 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C · License: MIT · Created: 2025-09-30 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/clainstone/cbirds · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/clainstone/cbirds

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 03:42–05:49: 135 → 139 stars (+4). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +17 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” — 25 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 7
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 10 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.7.0 (2026-10-12)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-13 … 2026-10-12: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 10, 16, 11, 18, 10, 12, 6, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 32, 18, 4

## Hacker News

- Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal — 25 points, 18 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036023

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-12 05:57 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.