linux
The small side project
Linux is technically a side project here, in the same way a continent is a side yard: casually maintained, impossible to ignore, and somehow still surrounded by other hobbies.
Roasts
guitarpedal
Pedal to the metal
Guitarpedal brings kernel-founder energy to stompboxes: because apparently the signal chain also needed a maintainer with opinions about low-level plumbing.
audionoise
Noise with a roadmap
Audionoise sounds like the rare project whose name doubles as both its premise and its release notes: ambitious enough to be technical, honest enough to warn the neighbors.
uemacs
Editor fatigue
Uemacs is a wonderfully compact monument to the belief that if the perfect editor does not exist, one should simply add another editor to the world.
Repository binding unavailable
One shape outside the box
The archived OpenSCAD project is the portfolio’s brief escape from C: proof that even a systems-heavy workshop occasionally makes room for something you can rotate in three dimensions.
Historical result · no repository binding was retained
Category breakdown
Impact
25% weight
Linux is an exceptionally ambitious and consequential project, while the surrounding tools and experiments suggest a coherent systems-oriented portfolio with several distinctive side projects.
Consistency
15% weight
The portfolio shows repeated activity across several years, including recent pushes to multiple owned repositories, with one older project and a few forks adding some variation.
Quality
25% weight
The repository metadata supports strong maturity signals through substantial, long-lived projects and focused systems work, but source, tests, CI, documentation, and implementation details are unavailable.
Depth
20% weight
The portfolio is anchored by sustained ownership of Linux and supplemented by multiple substantial non-fork projects, with activity continuing across a long time span.
Breadth
10% weight
Most repositories use C and center on systems or hardware-adjacent work, with some C++, OpenSCAD, audio, editor, conversion, and device-oriented variety.
Community
5% weight
The profile has unusually strong visible community reach and several widely recognized repositories; this is used only as a weak positive tie-breaker and does not determine the other scores.
Stats
52-week commit heatmap
352 active daysLanguage distribution
3 langs
- C84%
- C++8%
- OpenSCAD8%
Based on the bounded repository sample saved with this analysis.
Numbers
Owned repos
Non-fork sample
9
Commits
Last 12 months
3362
Followers
Accepted fact
315690
Joined GitHub
Profile date
Sep 2011
Top repos
Scores marked Profile rating use bounded public repository metadata. Full repo analysis appears only when a separate accepted repository analysis exists.
torvalds /
linux
100/100
A foundational, exceptionally ambitious C operating-system kernel project with extraordinary longevity and scope.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 242285 · 1d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
uemacs
74/100
A substantial C editor project, notable for tackling a classic systems-programming tool with ongoing activity.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 2097 · 4d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
audionoise
72/100
A focused C audio project with a clear technical theme and notable standalone ambition.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 4451 · 3mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
guitarpedal
68/100
A specialized C hardware or music-oriented project whose premise suggests purposeful systems experimentation.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 2228 · 3d agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
test-tlb
67/100
A targeted C test project centered on low-level memory-translation behavior, suggesting focused systems investigation.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 1040 · 2y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
hunspellcolorize
63/100
A focused C utility project with a distinctive text-processing premise and recent maintenance signals.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 360 · 7mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
scrollwheel
61/100
A focused C project involving an input-device concept, with recent activity and a clear hardware-oriented premise.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 363 · 2mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
pesconvert
60/100
A standalone C conversion utility with a focused domain and evidence of sustained work through 2022.
OwnedActiveProfile ratingC
★ 566 · 4y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
libgit2
48/100
A C fork of libgit2; the metadata indicates relevant technical scope, but ownership and originality are harder to establish from fork status alone.
ForkActiveProfile ratingC
★ 377 · 3y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
subsurface-for-dirk
45/100
A C++ fork of Subsurface, apparently maintained for a specific purpose, though fork status limits what can be inferred about original scope.
ForkActiveProfile ratingC++
★ 467 · 2y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
libdc-for-dirk
44/100
A C fork of libdc with a specialized purpose, but the available metadata provides limited evidence of independent ownership.
ForkActiveProfile ratingC
★ 396 · 2y agoOpen on GitHub ↗
torvalds /
1590a
43/100
An archived OpenSCAD design project with a distinctive non-C dimension, though archival status suggests limited current maintenance.
OwnedArchivedProfile ratingOpenSCAD
★ 571 · 11mo agoOpen on GitHub ↗
Timeline
- Joined GitHub
- Created torvalds/linux - Linux kernel source tree
- Created torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk - Do not use - the real upstream is Subsurface-divelog/subsurface
- Created torvalds/libdc-for-dirk - Only use for syncing with Dirk, don't use for anything else
- Created torvalds/test-tlb - Stupid memory latency and TLB tester
- Created torvalds/pesconvert - Brother PES file converter
- Created torvalds/uemacs - Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
- Created torvalds/libgit2 - A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
- Created torvalds/1590a - Random odd guitar pedal design in kicad
- Created torvalds/guitarpedal - Linus learns analog circuits
- Created torvalds/audionoise - Random digital audio effects
- Created torvalds/hunspellcolorize - Wrapper around 'less' to colorize spelling mistakes using Hunspell
- Created torvalds/scrollwheel - Minimalist RP2350 magnetic sensor scroll wheel toy project
- Most recent push to torvalds/linux
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TORVALDS · 6DMEDIAN CODER
Rubric
How this score was produced
Overall = Σ(category × weight) + deterministic top-end curve
| Category | Weight | Score | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | 25% | 99 | 24.75 |
| Quality | 25% | 85 | 21.25 |
| Depth | 20% | 98 | 19.60 |
| Consistency | 15% | 91 | 13.65 |
| Breadth | 10% | 58 | 5.80 |
| Community | 5% | 86 | 4.30 |
Impact · 99/100
What it measures. Project usefulness, ambition, originality, and coherence. Popularity is not impact.
Evidence for torvalds. Linux is an exceptionally ambitious and consequential project, while the surrounding tools and experiments suggest a coherent systems-oriented portfolio with several distinctive side projects.
Quality · 85/100
What it measures. Engineering and project-maturity signals supported by the available public metadata.
Evidence for torvalds. The repository metadata supports strong maturity signals through substantial, long-lived projects and focused systems work, but source, tests, CI, documentation, and implementation details are unavailable.
Depth · 98/100
What it measures. Sustained ownership, meaningful scope, and continued maintenance rather than one-shots.
Evidence for torvalds. The portfolio is anchored by sustained ownership of Linux and supplemented by multiple substantial non-fork projects, with activity continuing across a long time span.
Consistency · 91/100
What it measures. Recency and contribution patterns across the supplied activity window.
Evidence for torvalds. The portfolio shows repeated activity across several years, including recent pushes to multiple owned repositories, with one older project and a few forks adding some variation.
Breadth · 58/100
What it measures. Language entropy and project-type diversity across owned repos.
Evidence for torvalds. Most repositories use C and center on systems or hardware-adjacent work, with some C++, OpenSCAD, audio, editor, conversion, and device-oriented variety.
Community · 86/100
What it measures. A weak positive tie-breaker for supplied community signals, never a popularity penalty.
Evidence for torvalds. The profile has unusually strong visible community reach and several widely recognized repositories; this is used only as a weak positive tie-breaker and does not determine the other scores.
- Raw total
- 89.35
- Top-end curve
- +0.00
- Final overall
- 89.4
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.
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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, 2:01 AM UTC and is marked aging.