Repository binding unavailable
Hot Reload, Cold Sweat
A project dedicated to keeping React alive while everything else changes: refreshes are optional, existential dread is not.
Historical result · no repository binding was retained
Roasts
Repository binding unavailable
The Blog Is a Software Project
Most people publish posts; this repository apparently decided the publishing system deserved its own long-running saga. The content has infrastructure ambitions.
Historical result · no repository binding was retained
rscexplorer
Explorer Mode
A repository named rscexplorer sounds like it was built after finding a mysterious acronym in the woods and deciding the only responsible response was a full TypeScript expedition.
Repository binding unavailable
Boilerplate, But Make It Historic
Calling it a boilerplate is modest for something with enough staying power to become part of the ecosystem’s furniture.
Historical result · no repository binding was retained
react-blessed
Terminal Velocity
React, blessed rendering, and motion walk into a terminal; the result is less an ordinary UI project than a tiny stage production for command-line browsers.
Category breakdown
Impact
25% weight
The listed portfolio centers on influential React tooling, development workflows, performance exploration, and technical writing, showing unusually high ambition and clear ecosystem relevance.
Consistency
15% weight
The portfolio spans work from 2011 through recent updates, with multiple repositories still showing activity in 2026 and a substantial history of maintained projects, despite several older or archived entries.
Quality
25% weight
Metadata supports strong maturity signals through sustained maintenance, distinct project purposes, and several long-lived public projects. Source-level engineering quality cannot be assessed from the available evidence.
Depth
20% weight
The combination of nearly 300 public repositories, long-lived flagship projects, repeated work on related tooling, and recent activity indicates sustained ownership and deep specialization.
Breadth
10% weight
The portfolio covers JavaScript and TypeScript across hot reloading, boilerplates, performance tools, interactive exploration, writing, and related application or library work, though it remains concentrated in the React ecosystem.
Community
5% weight
The profile has substantial public engagement signals, including a large follower count and notable attention across several repositories. This is used only as a weak community tie-breaker.
Stats
52-week commit heatmap
110 active daysLanguage distribution
3 langs
- JavaScript67%
- TypeScript25%
- Unknown8%
Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.
Numbers
Owned repos
Non-fork sample
10
Commits
Last 12 months
566
Followers
Accepted fact
91232
Joined GitHub
Profile date
May 2011
Top repos
Scores marked Profile rating use bounded public repository metadata. Full repo analysis appears only when a separate accepted repository analysis exists.
gaearon /
react-hot-loader
91/100
A long-lived JavaScript React hot-reloading project with substantial ecosystem relevance and evidence of maintenance through 2023.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 12171 · 3y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
overreacted.io
88/100
A TypeScript technical-writing and publishing project with a clear educational focus and continued activity through 2026.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingTypeScript
★ 7272 · 1mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
rscexplorer
82/100
A recently active TypeScript exploration project with a distinctive technical premise and meaningful apparent scope.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingTypeScript
★ 1108 · 7mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-hot-boilerplate
78/100
A JavaScript React boilerplate project with a substantial historical footprint and maintenance recorded through 2020.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 3889 · 6y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-transform-boilerplate
68/100
An archived JavaScript React transformation boilerplate with notable historical visibility and a clearly focused purpose.
OwnedArchivedProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 3334 · 6y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
woodshed
67/100
A recently updated TypeScript project with a focused name and apparent experimental scope, though limited metadata is available.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingTypeScript
★ 70 · 7mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-lag-radar
64/100
A JavaScript React performance-oriented project with focused scope and maintenance recorded through 2021.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 295 · 5y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-transform-hmr
62/100
An archived JavaScript React transformation and HMR project that reflects meaningful historical tooling work but is no longer active.
OwnedArchivedProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 766 · 8y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-blessed-hot-motion
59/100
A JavaScript project combining React, terminal-oriented rendering, and motion, suggesting an unusual cross-domain experiment.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 278 · 9y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
library-boilerplate
56/100
A JavaScript library boilerplate project representing practical packaging and scaffolding work, with activity last recorded in 2016.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 383 · 10y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
react-blessed
42/100
A forked JavaScript React project with older activity; the metadata supports limited evidence of independent portfolio depth.
ForkActiveProfile ratingJavaScript
★ 3 · 11y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
gaearon /
next.js
38/100
A forked Next.js repository with recent activity, but the supplied metadata does not establish substantial independent ownership.
ForkActiveProfile ratingUnknown
★ 17 · 4d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
Timeline
- Joined GitHub
- Created gaearon/react-hot-loader - Tweak React components in real time. (Deprecated: use Fast Refresh instead.)
- Created gaearon/react-hot-boilerplate - Minimal live-editing example for React
- Created gaearon/library-boilerplate - An opinionated boilerplate for React libraries including ESLint, Mocha, Babel, Webpack and an example powered by Webpack Dev Server and React Hot Loader
- Created gaearon/react-blessed - A react renderer for blessed.
- Created gaearon/react-blessed-hot-motion - A console app demo using React for rendering, animation, and hot reloading
- Created gaearon/react-transform-hmr - A React Transform that enables hot reloading React classes using Hot Module Replacement API
- Created gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate - A new Webpack boilerplate with hot reloading React components, and error handling on module and component level.
- Created gaearon/overreacted.io - Personal blog by Dan Abramov.
- Created gaearon/react-lag-radar
- Created gaearon/next.js - The React Framework
- Created gaearon/rscexplorer - A tool for people curious about the React Server Components protocol
- Created gaearon/woodshed - Create, run, rate, and iterate on your Claude Skills
- Most recent push to gaearon/next.js
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GAEARON · 6DMEDIAN CODER
Rubric
How this score was produced
Overall = Σ(category × weight) + deterministic top-end curve
| Category | Weight | Score | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | 25% | 96 | 24.00 |
| Quality | 25% | 79 | 19.75 |
| Depth | 20% | 91 | 18.20 |
| Consistency | 15% | 88 | 13.20 |
| Breadth | 10% | 67 | 6.70 |
| Community | 5% | 96 | 4.80 |
Impact · 96/100
What it measures. Project usefulness, ambition, originality, and coherence. Popularity is not impact.
Evidence for gaearon. The listed portfolio centers on influential React tooling, development workflows, performance exploration, and technical writing, showing unusually high ambition and clear ecosystem relevance.
Quality · 79/100
What it measures. Engineering and project-maturity signals supported by the available public metadata.
Evidence for gaearon. Metadata supports strong maturity signals through sustained maintenance, distinct project purposes, and several long-lived public projects. Source-level engineering quality cannot be assessed from the available evidence.
Depth · 91/100
What it measures. Sustained ownership, meaningful scope, and continued maintenance rather than one-shots.
Evidence for gaearon. The combination of nearly 300 public repositories, long-lived flagship projects, repeated work on related tooling, and recent activity indicates sustained ownership and deep specialization.
Consistency · 88/100
What it measures. Recency and contribution patterns across the supplied activity window.
Evidence for gaearon. The portfolio spans work from 2011 through recent updates, with multiple repositories still showing activity in 2026 and a substantial history of maintained projects, despite several older or archived entries.
Breadth · 67/100
What it measures. Language entropy and project-type diversity across owned repos.
Evidence for gaearon. The portfolio covers JavaScript and TypeScript across hot reloading, boilerplates, performance tools, interactive exploration, writing, and related application or library work, though it remains concentrated in the React ecosystem.
Community · 96/100
What it measures. A weak positive tie-breaker for supplied community signals, never a popularity penalty.
Evidence for gaearon. The profile has substantial public engagement signals, including a large follower count and notable attention across several repositories. This is used only as a weak community tie-breaker.
- Raw total
- 86.65
- Top-end curve
- +0.00
- Final overall
- 86.7
Tier thresholds
S 90-100 Mass-producing humansA 80-89 Ship machineB 70-79 Solid engineerC 60-69 Getting thereD 40-59 README enthusiastF 0-39 GitHub tourist
I. How this saved profile rating was produced
- 01
Validate. The server validates the login, signed browser session, attempts, cooldown, daily ceiling, and the single provider permit.
- 02
Collect. The VPS collector reads bounded public profile metadata and up to 12 recent repository metadata rows in volatile memory.
- 03
Rate. One pinned provider returned a closed profile-rating object with no tools, browsing, shell, or repository-content access.
- 04
Verify. Server checks bound the subject, rejected unsafe or echoed text, validated the schema, and recomputed rubric-v3 final arithmetic.
- 05
Save. Only a valid completion and allowlisted post-completion facts commit atomically; the public projection is then rebuilt.
This saved profile analysis is metadata-only and did not read repository trees, README files, or source code. Availability of new analysis is separate from this historical result.
Rated 2026-08-09 · rating-rubric/3
II. Data sources & caveats
- Scores summarize one accepted, subject-bound analysis; they are not a security audit or endorsement.
- Rank, percentile, and median use 1095 currently accepted public profiles and can change as the leaderboard changes.
- Repository and language details reflect the bounded analyzed sample, not necessarily every repository.
- Missing data is shown as unavailable or not evaluated instead of being inferred as zero.
- Analysis completed Aug 9, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC and is marked aging.