Scouting report
Veteran Svelte specialist & TTRPG-tools maintainer
assessed from open-source footprint
Staff
89signal
Colin is a deeply front-end engineer (77% frontend, 14.7-year account) whose Svelte+TypeScript+Tailwind template is his most-used work (70★), and who actively maintains the ttrpgtools org (29 commits to nimblesheet). He's a steady open-source collaborator with 68 merged PRs last year across nine external repos. Abandonment is high (67%) and recent external repos are low-star, so think reliable Svelte craftsman rather than star-chaser.
Authorship & open source
Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on connect-four
68 merged PRs277 commits / yr9 external projects
Contributes to
- ttrpgtools/nimblesheet5★
- ttrpgtools/ttrpg.tools0★
- ttrpgtools/fvtt-troika-qol0★
- ttrpgtools/cross-origin-bus0★
What they build
Frontend77%
Backend14%
Game Dev7%
Industry experience
- Gaming
- Developer Tools
- Education & EdTech
Signal breakdown
Originality94
Impact100
Consistency87
Polish63
Stars
82
top repo 70
Original repos
81
19% forks
Followers
21
On GitHub
14.7 yr
Live demos
22
Activity
Active
67% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on connect-four
- Open-source contributor — 9 external projects incl. ttrpgtools/nimblesheet (5★)
- 68 merged pull requests
- 277 commits in the past year
- Original builder — 81 of their own repositories
- 82 stars earned across projects
- Ships to production — 22 live demos
About
Developer, father, book lover. — 206 public repositories and 21 followers on GitHub.
Skills
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Bate Dev
- Sveltejs
- Game
- CSS