01 · Roasts
853-star anchor
2bwm has 853 stars and 101 forks; the rest of the profile is largely letting that window manager carry the furniture.
Contribution tumbleweed
Only 8 commits this year and a 96% stale-repository ratio: the heatmap is mostly a historical artifact.
Polish backlog
All three reviewed repositories skip tests and CI; 2bwm also ships without a repository license.
Systems archaeology
The strongest work is deep X11/XCB craft, but fonts-for-xcb last moved in 2018 and glitching_images in 2020.
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Zoral
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02 · Category breakdown
- Impact25% weight68C
- Consistency20% weight55D
- Quality20% weight52D
- Depth15% weight65C
- Breadth10% weight80A
- Community10% weight50D
03 · Stats
365-day commit heatmap
4 active days
Language distribution
- JavaScript69%
- C++15%
- C7%
- Python3%
- Rust1%
- HTML1%
- Other4%
04 · Numbers
Owned repos
non-fork
27
Commits
last 12 months
8
Followers
222
Joined GitHub
Jul 2012
05 · Top repos
venam /
2bwm
Mature, widely used niche X11 window manager with 853 stars and 101 forks; substantial C implementation, configurable keyboard-driven features, installation tooling, README, and man pages, but no tests, CI, or repository license.
venam /
fonts-for-xcb
A focused C/XCB font-rendering library with Fontconfig matching, FreeType rasterization, XRender glyph compositing, fallback experiments, and multiple runnable demos, but limited adoption and unfinished engineering polish.
venam /
glitching_images
A documented, multi-directory collection of image-glitching utilities covering pixel sorting, JPEG marker corruption, raw conversion, WordPad effects, and audio sonification, but it remains a small niche project without tests, CI, typing, or license.
06 · Timeline
- Jul 13, 2012Joined GitHub
- Mar 12, 2013Created 2bwm — A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
- Feb 17, 2018Created fonts-for-xcb — Bring Xft-like capabilities to XCB without bloat
- Oct 3, 2020Created glitching_images — A small compilation of scripts and trivia related to glitching images. Based on the article on https://venam.nixers.net/blog/programming/2020/10/05/corruption-at-the-core.html
- Sep 3, 2026Most recent push to 2bwm
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.