Scouting report
Lua systems hacker & Playdate game author
assessed from open-source footprint
Principal
88signal
A low-level/systems specialist working mostly in Lua, C and Zig, whose BlockDate (136★), a Tetris-style game for the Playdate console, anchors a 193★ catalogue of dev tools and editor plugins. He's a consistent shipper (301 commits, 45 merged PRs last year, consistency 99) who has also landed patches in heavyweight projects like mawww/kakoune (10,905★). Strong pick for tooling, game engines, or anything close to the metal; lighter on polish and web work.
Authorship & open source
Primary authorwrote 95% of commits on equationgrapher
45 merged PRs301 commits / yr4 external projects
Contributes to
- mawww/kakoune10,905★
- vtereshkov/umka-lang2,046★
- cambridge-stacker/cambridge67★
- marekmaskarinec/mmdoc0★
What they build
Systems60%
Frontend18%
Backend16%
Industry experience
- Developer Tools
- Gaming
- Web & CMS
Signal breakdown
Originality85
Impact100
Consistency99
Polish56
Stars
193
top repo 136
Original repos
37
32% forks
Followers
49
On GitHub
5.7 yr
Live demos
3
Activity
Active
41% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 95% of commits on equationgrapher
- Open-source contributor — 4 external projects incl. mawww/kakoune (10,905★)
- 45 merged pull requests
- 301 commits in the past year
- Original builder — 37 of their own repositories
- 193 stars earned across projects
- A standout project with 136 stars
About
I make music and games every other blue moon. otherwise, it's just random software. — 60 public repositories and 49 followers on GitHub.
Skills
- Lua
- C
- KakouneScript
- Rust
- HTML
- Zig
- JavaScript
- Roff