Doesn't seem like a brag as much as a milestone. That being said, as mentioned in the article, only 12k projects on GitHub have hit the 1k mark. I've hit the 100 mark before myself, but not 1k.

Yes, I agree. We just wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on what we did so far. It is supposed to be kind of a status update and thank you to some of the people involved so far.

It's not about the quantity, it's the quality.

It's the little things that make life worth living

We can debate the worth of stars all we want, but these kinds of curves generally aren't linear; there's a big difference between "hundreds" and "a thousand". From TFA:

> Only 12k have more than 1k stars, that is gopass is now within the 0.6% most popular GitHub projects!

I imagine you're a blast at birthday parties.

> That's an odd age to celebrate. I (and many others) have had plenty of birthdays over several decades.

Look what you made me do. Now I had to up vote the story.