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Have you tried emailing him? He likely also owns hopding.com, and both domains consistently seem to be at Squarespace. The last commit on his GitHub (Feb 2025) someone commented "Good to see you're still with us :-)", so he may just not update things often.

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Last account activity was 2024-07-08 to push changes to the personal website andrewjdillon.com.[1][2]

Last account activity to contribute to any to any repository was 2021-11-28 to comment on the hopding/pdf-lib repository.[2]

It's clearly now an unmaintained repository with 4+ years of inactivity, and likely now also a mostly unused GitHub account in general.

[1] https://github.com/Hopding/andrewjdillon.com/commit/0657c690...

[2] https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUICogRlJPT...

True, I accidentally posted the date of the comment (1) not the commit. The only thing strange seems to be he used a smiley in the referenced commit message which doesn't seem to be his style.

(1) https://github.com/Hopding/Hopding.github.io/commit/40c7e0e8...

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