01 · Roasts
Kernel-sized flex
linux has 246,546 stars and 64,303 forks. Calling this a side project would be a category error.
C, with a side of C
98% C: three distinct project archetypes, one language chosen with monastic commitment.
Commit heat death
3,665 commits this year and a heatmap packed with 3s and 4s: apparently weekends are just weekdays with fewer meetings.
Verification asymmetry
GuitarPedal has CI and hardware validation, while uemacs still ships without tests or CI—terminal-editor confidence is apparently manual.
Built using
Zoral
Shadows one worker for a week, then takes over their job with zero extra setup. Behaves exactly like the original.
zoral.ai
02 · Category breakdown
- Impact25% weight100S
- Consistency20% weight95S
- Quality20% weight95S
- Depth15% weight95S
- Breadth10% weight55D
- Community10% weight95S
03 · Stats
365-day commit heatmap
353 active days
Language distribution
- C98%
- Assembly1%
- Rust0%
- Shell0%
- Python0%
- Makefile0%
- Other1%
04 · Numbers
Owned repos
non-fork
9
Commits
last 12 months
3,665
Followers
320,434
Joined GitHub
Sep 2011
05 · Top repos
torvalds /
linux
Linux is the ecosystem-defining operating-system kernel: a 6,354,445 KB C source tree with 246,546 stars, extensive subsystem documentation, architecture-specific infrastructure, and rigorously engineered core code.
torvalds /
uemacs
A 2,123-star, long-maintained C terminal editor with 30 source modules, mature buffer/window/macro systems, UTF-8 and Hunspell support, but no automated tests or CI.
torvalds /
GuitarPedal
A 2,286-star, GPL-licensed digital guitar pedal with RP2354A firmware, 17 generated effects, USB MIDI/WebMIDI control, KiCad hardware, and a substantial host-plus-hardware validation suite.
06 · Timeline
- Sep 3, 2011Joined GitHub
- Sep 4, 2011Created linux — Linux kernel source tree
- Jan 17, 2018Created uemacs — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
- Sep 17, 2025Created GuitarPedal — Linus learns analog circuits
- Sep 4, 2026Most recent push to linux
07 · Compare
08 · Rubric
How this score was produced
Overall = Σ (category × weight) + gentle top-end curve
Tier thresholds
▸ How the pipeline works
- 01Scrape.Pull every non-fork repo pushed in the last 90 days, plus your contribution calendar, followers, and language byte counts — straight from GitHub's REST & GraphQL APIs.
- 02Triage.A small model reads every repo's file tree + README and picks the 20 files per repo that actually reveal how you code.
- 03Grade each repo. All repos run in parallel through a fast scoring model that reads the picked files and rates each one independently on Impact, Quality, and Depth — with evidence citations.
- 04Aggregate. A larger reasoning model combines the per-repo scores with server-computed stats (heatmap, commit cadence, language entropy, follower count) to produce the 6-dimension profile score + roasts.
- 05Correct.Deterministic server-side checks enforce anchor-scale floors (e.g. a profile with 2,000+ public commits can't score 30 Consistency) and recompute the final verdict.
~90 seconds per profile, ~$0.25 in compute. Total of ~240 files read across your top-12 repos. One rating per GitHub account per day.
▸ Data sources & caveats
- Heatmap & commit totals: GitHub GraphQL
contributionsCollection— covers the last 365 days, includes private repos when the user has opted in (default). - Language %: byte totals across the top 30 owned non-fork repos.
- Curve: a small upward nudge centered on raw score ≈ 70, capping at 100. Prevents specialists from being unfairly penalised for narrow breadth.
- Anchor corrections: when server-measured signals (e.g. privateWorkLikely, multiRepoVolume, follower count) mandate a minimum category score, the aggregation step enforces it. These are signal-conditional, not identity-based floors.