Lot Nº 87 · Season 8 · Provenance: public GitHub
Simon Willison, rated 87
Holo tier — earned, never bought. Scouted live from the public record; fee at the hammer: €120M to Real Recursión.
Simon Willison
simonw's public GitHub portfolio, scored from repositories, activity, languages and maintenance signal.
Public Profile
Maintains shipped work consistently. Half Moon Bay, California · 100.0 public events/week across the recent activity window.
Highlighted Work
llmAccess large language models from the command-line datasetteAn open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data shot-scraperA CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript sqlite-utilsPython CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databasesStack Signal
Card design
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- OVR /99 — the overall rating: all six stats blended on a curve where 99 is deliberately unreachable. Even the legends top out in the mid-nineties.
- PAC Pace — how often this profile ships (public events per week, ~90-day window).
- SHO Shooting — stars earned on original repos. Impact, not volume.
- PAS Passing — pull-request activity plus follower reach. How much the work connects.
- DRI Dribbling — language range across repos, with a bonus for balance.
- DEF Defense — how much of their own work is still maintained six months on.
- PHY Physical — seasons on GitHub plus consistency inside the window.
- TIERS — Bronze to 59 · Silver from 60 · Gold from 75 · Holo from 87. Earned from the rating, never bought — every card design keeps the true tier.
- DATA — public profile, public repos, and ~90 days of public events, read live. Private work is invisible to the scouts, so private-repo heroes rate lower than they deserve. It's a vibe check, not a performance review.
The Record
evidence, live from the public record📅 Transfer history
The career, window by window — from the public record.
- Season 8signed as a free agent — joined GitHub
- Season 17signed with datasette · fee ⭐11.3k
- Season 18signed with sqlite-utils · fee ⭐2.1k
- Season 22signed with shot-scraper · fee ⭐2.5k
- Season 23signed with llm · fee ⭐12.2k
🏆 Trophy cabinet
The exhibited works — most-starred public repos, live links.
Access large language models from the command-line
datasetteAn open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
shot-scraperA CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript
sqlite-utilsPython CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases
toolsAssorted useful tools, almost entirely generated using LLMs
claude-code-transcriptsTools for publishing transcripts for Claude Code sessions
📊 League context
Each stat against the legends-pool average (gold tick) — honest framing: this is the legends pool, not all of GitHub.
The Readings
nine lenses on one record🔥 The roast
Observations your profile earned. All of it is public record — zero AI.
- 🔥🔥72% of your activity happens between 10 PM and 6 AM. Sleep is a deprecated dependency, apparently.
- 🔥🔥5 repos named some variant of "todo", "test", or "tutorial". The learning phase is allowed to end, you know.
- 🔥No bio. Mysterious, or just never got past "// TODO: write bio"?
- 🔥Well-maintained repos, real stars, consistent activity. We came here to roast and found nothing flammable. Disgusting behavior, honestly.
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🧬 Developer archetype
Detected from when, what, and how you ship.
Shipping Machine
Push early. Push often. Push again.
The event feed reads like a metronome. Whatever the streak counter says, the real number is higher — this profile does not stop.
🕐 Commit clock
Public activity from the last ~90 days, hour by weekday (UTC).
🧪 Language DNA
What the public repos are made of.
👯 Dev twin & nemesis
Closest and furthest stat vectors in the legends pool. The tape doesn't lie.
Twin math: normalized distance across all six stats, against the 39-legend pool.
🧭 Dev alignment
Where the shipping style lands on the eternal grid. Computed, not chosen.
Lawful Merger — Reviews before merging. Squashes politely. Sleeps at night.
🔎 Scout report
The signing brief — what a technical scout would circle on this profile.
Play style: 🚢 Shipping Machine — Push early. Push often. Push again.
💰 Transfer market value
BREAKING — the fee the scouts put on this profile.
Scouting report — fee adjustments
Scout’s notes — what would raise the fee
Comparable transfers, season 8
Transfer fees are football fiction computed from public GitHub signal — the underlying numbers (stars, activity, maintenance, reach) are real.
⚔️ Dev vs dev
Pick an opponent. Same stats, same rules, one winner — the battle gets its own shareable page.
🎖️ Medal cabinet
9 of 10 unlocked — every medal is earned from public signal, none are for sale.
The Signing
for the scouts in the room“The record speaks for itself.”
Everything above derives from the public GitHub record — no résumé inflation possible.