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This seems to be completely wrong for me. It describes me as a "high caliber Javascripter" when my only projects are in Objective-c. I'm guessing it's picking up JS from the GitHub pages I have setup for one of my projects.

I was more interested in the graphs. Surprisingly I commit more on fridays.

Ditto. My only two open projects are in Scala yet I'm an "expert JS" because my own soon to be created blog/website has some js libraries in them.

Me too. The page describes me as a CoffeeScript expert. I haven't written a single line of CoffeeScript and don't intend to in the future.

Actually you would get a much better overview of what I do by just looking through my repository list.

The adjective is random, it listed me as a javascript expert[1] too, and I do have a couple of js projects, but the bulk of it is php. The only project that's even gotten contributed to is in php.

And I don't know where it's getting that I do shell scripting....

But it does make me look pretty good so I might just send it to potential employers >_>

[1] ha ha.

Somehow, I don't like the wording.

Mine says:

  ... is an awesome Rubyist (one of the top 19% most active Ruby users) who would rather be commenting on issues instead of pushing code.

I do a lot of bug/PR triage for padrino when I find the time. Also, I have the habit of documenting each and every odd behaviour I find in tickets.

Its an important task, yet the tone frames it as as if I was some kind of Statler and Waldorf kind of person.

Other then that, its actually very accurate :). Except one thing: it seems to tread organizations as users, so most people are "good friends" with their companies/OS projects.

I guess it's time for Linus Torvalds to do some web programming. (joke) His report shows:

"Linus seems to speak only one programming language: C. Maybe it's about time to branch out a bit."

I want to know who he is calling a "mick"?

It worked for a little bit, but now I keep getting 404s when I submit a name.

Also, for my handle it keeps saying that there's not enough information to generate a report card. I would be a neat motivator to see what I need to improve to get a report. :-)

Instead of saying someone is an "expert" or what have you, why not just say "x works very actively with Python" or "x dabbles in Javascript"

Is this still working for anyone? I keep getting:

    The requested URL was not found on the server.

Incorrect assumptions for my github..says I'm a "top-notch perl expert" yet I have 0 perl projects to my name..

It's a cool idea but the language breakdown seems to have missed all the OCaml code in my repositories. Maybe there's some sort of conservative language whitelist?

I, for one, take exception to being called an "expert" in any language. That's a serious accusation for some naive software to be making!

Agreed, it'd be a nice bit of ego-stroking if it wasn't so transparent :) I would not call myself an expert, perhaps the author might want to change the wording to be more objective and less emotional? :)

I looked up bitprophet's report card (maintainer of Fabric and other cool stuff). Was surprised by this:

  I hate to say it but Jeff is becoming—as one of the top 96%
  most vulgar users on GitHub—a tad foul-mouthed (with a
  particular affinity for filthy words like 'shitty').

The top 96% is almost the entire population. Doesn't really mean anything.

Yes, the wording is a little weird. Yet, still it doesn't make sense to make the assertion that a user is vulgar because they might have said the word 'shitty' once or twice.

Seems like it's mostly just sticking to a template. Though I do think it's a bit off here. Apparently, I'm in the top 33% most vulgar and often use words like "fucking". To the best of my knowledge, that maybe happened once.

Nonetheless, this is pretty cool. I'm loving the graphs.

Pretty and neat, although I echo the sentiments of others on the use of "expert". Especially when github is where I do side projects, not stuff I'm good enough to get paid to do.

Expert in JS despite my repos being predominantly Python/Clojure/Elisp.

Sigh.

Including libraries in a project does not an expert make.

Thanks for writing this! I found the percentile of active users in X language helpful. Also liked the related users bit - powered by FLANN

Liked it too much. It made me feel like a star -:).

That's actually pretty good, although if it had looked further in the past, it would have found more languages for me.

This is awesome. Only downside - it doesn't consider private repos (which would substantially change my report card).

Great work guys :P

So far fun, but connect it with stackoverflow, linkedin and public google search and you have pretty scary tool :)

Worked quite well for me, then started 404'ing. Load issues I presume.

Either way bravo, great idea.

It seems to work for me. After-all, I am a JavaScript expert :)

Nice work. I like the simple design.

Let's just say that everyone is a JavaScript expert these days. :)

Sweet, I'm an accidental C++ expert!

looks like it doesn't work anymore. Only getting 404.

404 :(

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