desk
Desktop diplomacy
You named a Shell project desk and somehow made it one of the portfolio’s biggest landmarks—proof that the command line can still demand office furniture.
Roasts
local-llm
Local weather system
local-llm is an admirably direct name for an ambitious premise: bringing an entire AI trend into the house and making the shell answer the door.
tinychain
Tiny by declaration
tinychain has the confidence of a small project and the visible footprint of a much larger one—a miniature that appears to have escaped the display case.
coldcore
Cold but active
coldcore sounds like a project that should be hibernating, yet its recent activity suggests somebody keeps turning the freezer back on.
Category breakdown
Impact
25% weight
Several original, non-fork projects have substantial visible interest and ambitious themes spanning distributed systems, local AI tooling, desktop utilities, and Bitcoin-related work.
Consistency
15% weight
The supplied repositories show activity from 2021 through 2026, including multiple updates in 2025 and 2026, indicating sustained recent engagement.
Quality
25% weight
Metadata supports maturity signals such as multiple maintained, non-fork projects and substantial project scope, but implementation quality cannot be assessed without source, tests, CI, or documentation.
Depth
20% weight
The combination of a large public portfolio, long account history, several substantial non-fork repositories, and continued updates suggests sustained ownership and meaningful project scope.
Breadth
10% weight
The portfolio spans Python, Shell, C, Go, Vim Script, Wikitext, and unknown-language projects, with utilities, developer tools, AI tooling, systems work, and Bitcoin-related projects.
Community
5% weight
Community evidence is a weak neutral-to-positive signal: the profile has 892 followers and several repositories show notable interest, but popularity does not determine the other scores.
Stats
52-week commit heatmap
32 active daysLanguage distribution
7 langs
- Python34%
- Shell17%
- Unknown17%
- C8%
- Go8%
- Vim Script8%
- Wikitext8%
Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.
Numbers
Owned repos
Non-fork sample
8
Commits
Last 12 months
68
Followers
Accepted fact
892
Joined GitHub
Profile date
Apr 2009
Top repos
Scores marked Profile rating use bounded public repository metadata. Full repo analysis appears only when a separate accepted repository analysis exists.
jamesob /
desk
85/100
A long-lived, maintained non-fork Shell project with a clear desktop-oriented premise and substantial visible interest, indicating unusually strong portfolio significance.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingShell
★ 2576 · 4y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
local-llm
84/100
A recently updated non-fork Shell project centered on local LLM use, combining current relevance with a practical tooling premise and strong visible interest.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingShell
★ 1751 · 1mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
tinychain
82/100
A distinctive non-fork Python project with substantial visible interest and continued ownership through 2021, suggesting meaningful scope and usefulness.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingPython
★ 1445 · 5y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
coldcore
73/100
A recently updated non-fork Python project with a distinctive systems-oriented name and notable interest, suggesting meaningful technical ambition.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingPython
★ 140 · 10d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
cbip32
58/100
A maintained non-fork C project focused on BIP32, showing specialized systems or cryptographic ambition, though metadata alone cannot establish implementation completeness.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 7 · 1y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
llm-cli
54/100
A maintained non-fork Go CLI project with a focused developer-tool premise, though the metadata does not reveal its scope or completion level.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingGo
★ 6 · 1y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
delving-bitcoin-archive
48/100
A maintained, non-fork archive project with recent activity; its purpose is clear from the name, but the supplied metadata gives little evidence about scope or maturity.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingUnknown
★ 4 · todayOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
pub-dotfiles
45/100
A recently updated non-fork Vim Script configuration project, providing evidence of personal tooling and language variety but limited metadata about broader scope.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingVim Script
★ 0 · 19d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
stt
40/100
A maintained Python fork related to speech-to-text, showing topical breadth but weaker evidence of original project ownership.
ForkActiveProfile ratingPython
★ 20 · 1mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
bips
35/100
A maintained fork of BIPS with recent activity; it contributes less evidence of original ownership than the non-fork projects.
ForkActiveProfile ratingWikitext
★ 6 · 1y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
yacron
34/100
A Python fork with a scheduling-oriented name and activity through 2023, but fork status limits what can be inferred about original scope.
ForkActiveProfile ratingPython
★ 1 · 3y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
jamesob /
nvml-tool
30/100
A recently updated fork with no identified language in the supplied metadata; it provides limited evidence beyond participation in an existing project.
ForkActiveProfile ratingUnknown
★ 0 · 7mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
Timeline
- Joined GitHub
- Created jamesob/desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
- Created jamesob/bips - Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
- Created jamesob/tinychain - A pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin
- Created jamesob/yacron - A modern Cron replacement that is Docker-friendly
- Created jamesob/coldcore - Trust-minimized Bitcoin wallet
- Created jamesob/delving-bitcoin-archive - A public archive of delvingbitcoin.org
- Created jamesob/pub-dotfiles
- Created jamesob/cbip32 - A fast, secure, low-dependency C implementation of BIP32
- Created jamesob/llm-cli - Simple CLI shortcut for consulting an LLM
- Created jamesob/stt - Excellent, local, cross-platform text-to-speech
- Created jamesob/nvml-tool
- Created jamesob/local-llm - Everything I know about running LLMs locally
- Most recent push to jamesob/delving-bitcoin-archive
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Rubric
How this score was produced
Overall = Σ(category × weight) + deterministic top-end curve
| Category | Weight | Score | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | 25% | 86 | 21.50 |
| Quality | 25% | 70 | 17.50 |
| Depth | 20% | 84 | 16.80 |
| Consistency | 15% | 82 | 12.30 |
| Breadth | 10% | 78 | 7.80 |
| Community | 5% | 55 | 2.75 |
Impact · 86/100
What it measures. Project usefulness, ambition, originality, and coherence. Popularity is not impact.
Evidence for jamesob. Several original, non-fork projects have substantial visible interest and ambitious themes spanning distributed systems, local AI tooling, desktop utilities, and Bitcoin-related work.
Quality · 70/100
What it measures. Engineering and project-maturity signals supported by the available public metadata.
Evidence for jamesob. Metadata supports maturity signals such as multiple maintained, non-fork projects and substantial project scope, but implementation quality cannot be assessed without source, tests, CI, or documentation.
Depth · 84/100
What it measures. Sustained ownership, meaningful scope, and continued maintenance rather than one-shots.
Evidence for jamesob. The combination of a large public portfolio, long account history, several substantial non-fork repositories, and continued updates suggests sustained ownership and meaningful project scope.
Consistency · 82/100
What it measures. Recency and contribution patterns across the supplied activity window.
Evidence for jamesob. The supplied repositories show activity from 2021 through 2026, including multiple updates in 2025 and 2026, indicating sustained recent engagement.
Breadth · 78/100
What it measures. Language entropy and project-type diversity across owned repos.
Evidence for jamesob. The portfolio spans Python, Shell, C, Go, Vim Script, Wikitext, and unknown-language projects, with utilities, developer tools, AI tooling, systems work, and Bitcoin-related projects.
Community · 55/100
What it measures. A weak positive tie-breaker for supplied community signals, never a popularity penalty.
Evidence for jamesob. Community evidence is a weak neutral-to-positive signal: the profile has 892 followers and several repositories show notable interest, but popularity does not determine the other scores.
- Raw total
- 78.65
- Top-end curve
- +0.00
- Final overall
- 78.6
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 2026-08-10 · 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 10, 2026, 12:02 AM UTC and is marked aging.