John Resig

John Resig’s GitHub reads like a museum where the exhibits still occasionally commit. Eighteen-point-three years on the platform, 19k followers, and only following 30 back — that’s not a network, that’s tenure. Even the bio says Chief Software Architect, which is exactly what you call someone who has enough JavaScript repos to legally qualify as browser infrastructure.

The language spread is basically front-end history class: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, with TypeScript and Python showing up like transfer students. Your top repo is a node-stream playground, which feels very on-brand: while everyone else was building apps, you were out here making interactive educational field trips for backpressure. Then there’s trie-js, dromaeo, and a NodeList proposal — not content to use the web, you’ve been trying to rewrite its plumbing since before half of GitHub learned what semver meant.

Also, 111 public repos with a 55% fork ratio says you collect code like a professor collects reference books: some for research, some for inspiration, and some because returning them would break the system. Forty-five repos untouched in over a year gives the whole profile a light archaeological flavor, but the recent push proves the lab is still open. This isn’t code sprawl — it’s a long-running one-man standards committee with better commit history.