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Peter Bengtsson

@peterbe

Full-stack developer working Capital Rx. Formerly GitHub, Mozilla, MDN. Loves Python, Postgres, Node, Search.

South Carolina, USA

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Joined September 2008

1401 Followers

134 Following

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61/ 100

Quality

Avg 45.9 stars per repo.

Growth

12 new projects with 9 stars.

Consistency

18 day streak.

Profile README

@peterbe

Hi! I'm Peter. I'm a web developer. I'm originally from Sweden, but now I live in South Carolina, USA.

I work at GitHub, trying to make it an even better experience.

My personal blog is: www.peterbe.com.

Latest silly side project: Spot the Difference

Recent personal blog posts

xbar-my-prs Info about your GitHub PRs in the macOS menu bar
January 29, 2026 · TypeScript, macOS, Bun 0 comments

Optimizing Bun compiled binary for gg2
January 13, 2026 · TypeScript, Bun 0 comments

gg2 has a web page now
January 5, 2026 · TypeScript, JavaScript 0 comments

You don't need a context or state manager for TanStack Query in scattered React components
January 2, 2026 · React, TypeScript, JavaScript 0 comments

Autocomplete using PostgreSQL instead of Elasticsearch
December 18, 2025 · Elasticsearch, Python, PostgreSQL 0 comments

Comparison of speed between gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano
December 15, 2025 · Python 1 comment

Benchmarking oxlint vs biome
December 12, 2025 · Rust, TypeScript, Bun 0 comments

Elasticsearch memory usage
December 11, 2025 · Elasticsearch, Linux 1 comment

gg2 is now installable with Homebrew
December 8, 2025 · TypeScript, Bun 0 comments

Testing out vite 8 on SPA: Vite 8 is 5x faster
December 6, 2025 · Web development, TypeScript, Bun 0 comments

Public Repos

293

Total Stars

4591

Total Forks

661

Public Gists

1233

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Most active day: January 12th, 2026 • 10 contributions

Most active week: Dec 1–Dec 7 • 59 contributions

Most active month: Aug 2025 • 211 contributions

Starred stelviodev/stelvio

February 3rd, 2026 2:19 PM

merged pull request in peterbe/pr-counts

January 31st, 2026 11:05 PM

Pushed to main at peterbe/pr-counts

January 31st, 2026 11:05 PM

opened pull request in peterbe/pr-counts

January 31st, 2026 11:05 PM

Created branch events-2 in peterbe/pr-counts

January 31st, 2026 11:05 PM

Created branch main in peterbe/pr-counts

January 31st, 2026 8:24 PM

Pushed to main at peterbe/xbar-my-prs

January 29th, 2026 11:22 PM

merged pull request in peterbe/xbar-my-prs

January 29th, 2026 11:22 PM

Pushed to only-show-recently-closed-for-5-minutes at peterbe/xbar-my-prs

January 29th, 2026 11:21 PM

opened pull request in peterbe/xbar-my-prs

January 29th, 2026 11:17 PM

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