I visualized the GitHub profiles of 10 developers - the numbers are WILD:
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I visualized the GitHub profiles of 10 developers - the numbers are WILD:
1. Linus Torvalds - 226K stars from 6 repos. Six. One of them is Linux.
https://lnkd.in/d6Zzftia
2. Sindre Sorhus - 947 projects. 989K stars. Nearly a million. One person. Full-time open source, no employer.
https://lnkd.in/dd2FbF6G
3. Tj Holowaychuk - 214 projects, 135K stars. Built Express.js, Koa, Commander, Mocha, Pug... basically half of early Node.js.
https://gitshow.dev/tj
4. Evan You - Created Vue.js AND Vite. 73 repos. Quality over quantity, redefined.
https://lnkd.in/dh5wQhjc
5. Addy Osmani - 173 projects, 57K stars. Engineering Lead at Google Chrome. Wrote the book on JavaScript design patterns. Literally.
https://lnkd.in/djfssm6d
6. Anthony Fu - 205 projects, 61K stars. Vitest, Slidev, UnoCSS, and dozens of Vue/Vite tools. Ships at inhuman speed.
https://gitshow.dev/antfu
7. Michael Paulson - 191 projects, 40K stars. Went from Netflix engineer to the biggest dev content creator. Open sources everything.
https://lnkd.in/dJjQb4nG
8. Dan Abramov - 54 projects, 39K stars. Co-created Redux and React's new docs. Now building at Bluesky.
https://lnkd.in/dExtiQt8
9. Kent C. Dodds - 344 projects, 39K stars. Testing Library, Epic React, Remix contributor.
https://lnkd.in/dNiTxHmh
10.shadcndesign.com - 145 repos, shadcn/ui used by half the internet. Proved that copy-paste components beat npm packages.
https://gitshow.dev/shadcn
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