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Paul Irish

@paulirish

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  • 28K
    Total stars
  • 32K
    Followers
  • 85
    Public repos
  • 6,236
    Contributions

333 following

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  • Contributions: 6,236. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 32,089. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 28,405. Across all repos.
  • Following: 333. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 85. Owned, non-fork.

A living snapshot

Every leaf is a headline number from Paul Irish’s public GitHub. The canopy fills out as the work grows - sway and all.

  • 6,236 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 32K Followers People who follow you
  • 28K Total stars Across all repos
  • 333 Following People you follow
  • 85 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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What your GitHub says

Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated

  • JavaScript is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 61%.

    High confidence

  • Public GitHub activity is implementation-heavy: commits account for 62% of tracked contribution activity.

    Medium confidence

  • Most analyzed repositories (29 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 85 public repositories (47%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 100

Strong

  • 6,236 contributions in the trailing year
  • 3-day current streak
Portfolio 42

Needs work

  • 7 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 28,405 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 49

Developing

  • 3 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
  • 35 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 18

Needs work

  • 7 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
  • 29 show no public activity in over a year
Collaboration 50

Developing

  • 214 pull requests and 294 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 888 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
JavaScript / HTML / Shell / TypeScript

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
7 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
214 PRs / 294 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
28,405 stars / 3,080 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
12 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

Strongest signals

  • 6,236 contributions in the trailing year

6,236
Contributions
Past 12 months
3
Current streak
Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026
35
Longest streak
Jul 29, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026
Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for paulirish JavaScript 60.8%, HTML 18.1%, Shell 10.0%, TypeScript 4.3%, CSS 4.1%, Python 1.8%, Other 0.9%
  • JavaScript 60.8%
  • HTML 18.1%
  • Shell 10.0%
  • TypeScript 4.3%
  • CSS 4.1%
  • Python 1.8%
  • Other 0.9%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Frontend 100
  • DevOps 29
  • Backend 6
  • Data 6
  • Mobile 0
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Embedded 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
35d
Jul 2026
Favourite coding day
Sunday
729 contributions
Most active year
2026
3,342 contributions
Signature language
JavaScript
61% of tracked code
Flagship repository
lite-youtube-embed
6,350 stars
On GitHub since
2008
17 years and counting

Across their public repositories, Paul Irish works mainly in JavaScript, which accounts for roughly 61% of their committed code, alongside HTML and Shell. They have 85 public repositories, which together have earned 28,405 stars, led by lite-youtube-embed at 6,350. Their activity over the last twelve months totals 6,236 contributions, including a longest run of 35 consecutive active days. Paul Irish has been on GitHub since 2008 and is followed by 32,089 developers.

This overview is generated from Paul Irish’s public GitHub activity at the time of the last refresh. Figures cover public repositories and the trailing twelve months of contributions.

  1. 01

    Add topics to lite-youtube-embed

    High impact

    lite-youtube-embed is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    lite-youtube-embed →
  2. 02

    Add topics to git-recent

    High impact

    git-recent is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    git-recent →
  3. 03

    Add a license to dotfiles

    Medium impact

    dotfiles is pinned and public but has no detected license.

    dotfiles →
  4. 04

    Add topics to matchMedia.js

    Low impact

    matchMedia.js has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    matchMedia.js →
  5. 05

    Add topics to memory-stats.js

    Low impact

    memory-stats.js has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    memory-stats.js →
  6. 06

    Add topics to break-on-access

    Low impact

    break-on-access has no topic tags, making its technology harder to discover.

    break-on-access →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

dotfiles

paul's fish, bash, git, etc config files. good stuff.

  • dotfiles
  • fish
  • homebrew
  • yay
Shell 4,360 ★ 1,256 forks 2 issues 2d ago
GitHub
git-open

Type `git open` to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser.

  • git
  • shell
  • github
  • bitbucket
Shell 3,460 ★ 269 forks 33 issues 3d ago
MIT GitHub
matchMedia.js

matchMedia polyfill for testing media queries in JS

JavaScript 2,361 ★ 277 forks 6 issues 7d ago
MIT GitHub
memory-stats.js

minimal monitor for JS Heap Size via performance.memory

JavaScript 2,089 ★ 105 forks 3 issues yesterday
GitHub
pwmetrics

Progressive web metrics at your fingertipz

  • metrics
  • performance
  • webperf
  • lighthouse
TypeScript 1,238 ★ 69 forks 26 issues yesterday
Apache-2.0 GitHub

Most popular
lite-youtube-embed

6,350 stars

Most recently active
dotfiles

Last pushed 11d ago

Longest maintained
dotfiles

Active for 14.7y

Most discoverable
trace.cafe

100% of discoverability signals present

lighthouse

Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.

JavaScript 30,802 ★ 9,759 forks
git-recent

See your latest local git branches, formatted real fancy

Shell 1,047 ★ 38 forks
dotfiles

paul's fish, bash, git, etc config files. good stuff.

Shell 4,360 ★ 1,256 forks
modern-web-guidance

Keep your coding agent up to date with the latest web best practices

2,309 ★ 85 forks

  • lite-youtube-embed 6,350 ★

    A faster youtube embed.

  • dotfiles 4,360 ★

    paul's fish, bash, git, etc config files. good stuff.

  • git-open 3,460 ★

    Type `git open` to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser.

  • matchMedia.js 2,361 ★

    matchMedia polyfill for testing media queries in JS

  • memory-stats.js 2,089 ★

    minimal monitor for JS Heap Size via performance.memory

  • pwmetrics 1,238 ★

    Progressive web metrics at your fingertipz

All repositories →

Public visibility is moderately spread across several repositories rather than one or two.

Top 1 repository 22% of stars
Top 3 repositories 50% of stars
Top 5 repositories 66% of stars

Leading repository: lite-youtube-embed (6,350 stars, 28,405 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

Derived from repository languages and topics - horizontal bars, never a pie.

Languages

  • JavaScript 61%
  • HTML 18%
  • Shell 10%
  • TypeScript 4%
  • CSS 4%
  • Python 2%

Package managers

  • Homebrew 100%

README, contributing-guide and GitHub Actions badges below are detected by exact filename on each repository’s default branch - they report presence, not quality.

  • dotfiles Established
    Popularity 80
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 100
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • lite-youtube-embed Developing
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 40
    No README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • git-open Established
    Popularity 56
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 65
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • trace.cafe Established
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 100
    Maintenance 85
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • git-recent Established
    Popularity 16
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 65
    No README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • lh-scorecalc Established
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • statikk Established
    Popularity 1
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 85
    README No contributing guide CI: 2 workflows
  • mojibar-web Maintained
    Popularity 1
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 85
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • speedline Developing
    Popularity 13
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 40
    No README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • pwmetrics Dormant
    Popularity 20
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • matchMedia.js Dormant
    Popularity 39
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • es-modules-todomvc Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 75
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow

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85
Public repos
40 analyzed
28K
Total stars
Across all repos
6,236
Contributions
Past 12 months
214
Pull requests
Opened this year
120
Public gists
Snippets shared
17 y
Account age
Since 2008
80 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

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Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

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Largest repository
7.3 MB
speedline
Smallest repository
9 KB
google-hangouts-grid-view
Oldest repository
Sep 24, 2009
font-face-detect
Newest repository
Nov 27, 2022
trace.cafe
Most starred
6,350 ★
lite-youtube-embed
Most forked
1,256 forks
dotfiles
Most watched
162 watchers
dotfiles
Longest description
107 characters
headless-cat-n-mouse
Most open issues
33 open
git-open

Contribution patterns

→

By year

  • 2026
    3,342
  • 2025
    1,146
  • 2024
    620
  • 2023
    661
  • 2022
    579
  • 2021
    686

By day of week

  • Sun
    729
  • Mon
    548
  • Tue
    635
  • Wed
    404
  • Thu
    493
  • Fri
    466
  • Sat
    665

Best coding day: Sun

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    158
  • Nov
    100
  • Dec
    321
  • Jan
    170
  • Feb
    252
  • Mar
    524
  • Apr
    373
  • May
    426
  • Jun
    139
  • Jul
    794
  • Aug
    458
  • Sep
    206

GitHub journey

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  1. December 2008

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @paulirish account.

  2. September 2009

    Created first repository

    Published font-face-detect, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. September 2009

    First starred repository

    font-face-detect is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. January 2012

    Reached 10 repositories

    dotfiles was the 10th public repository created.

  5. November 2022

    Latest repository

    trace.cafe is the most recently created repository.

  6. June 2026

    Most productive year: 2026

    3,342 contributions recorded in 2026, more than any other year on record.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

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2009

Started with JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
1
Stars, as of today
55
font-face-detect
2010

Went deeper into JavaScript.

HTML JavaScript
Repos this year
5
Total repos
6
Stars, as of today
728
css3please
2011

Went deeper into JavaScript.

CSS JavaScript
Repos this year
3
Total repos
9
Stars, as of today
3.3k
matchMedia.js
2012

Shifted from JavaScript to Shell.

Shell
Repos this year
1
Total repos
10
Stars, as of today
7.7k
dotfiles
2013

Shifted from Shell to CSS.

CSS JavaScript Python
Repos this year
5
Total repos
15
Stars, as of today
9.7k
break-on-access
2014

Shifted from CSS to JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
16
Stars, as of today
9.7k
emulation-popup-ext
2015

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript Shell
Repos this year
5
Total repos
21
Stars, as of today
17k
git-open
2016

Went deeper into JavaScript.

HTML JavaScript Shell TypeScript
Repos this year
7
Total repos
28
Stars, as of today
21k
pwmetrics
2017

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
5
Total repos
33
Stars, as of today
21k
es-modules-todomvc
2018

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
34
Stars, as of today
22k
headless-cat-n-mouse
2019

Went deeper into JavaScript.

HTML JavaScript
Repos this year
4
Total repos
38
Stars, as of today
28k
lite-youtube-embed
2020

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
39
Stars, as of today
28k
google-hangouts-grid-view
2022

Went deeper into JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
28k
Contributions
579
trace.cafe

Built from paulirish’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.

Achievements

6 / 9 unlocked

Explorer
Created repositories in 8 or more languages
Builder
More than 50 public repositories
Open Source Enthusiast
100+ stars received across all repositories
Consistent
A 100-day-or-longer contribution streak
Documentation Hero
5 or more repositories with a detailed description
Popular
500 or more followers
Prolific Committer
1,000 or more commits in the past 12 months
Long Timer
5 or more years on GitHub
Star Collector
Starred 100 or more repositories

Open source activity

28,405
Stars received
888
Repositories starred
3,080
Forks received
111
Issues opened
Past 12 months
214
Pull requests opened
Past 12 months
294
Reviews given
Past 12 months
120
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2009
  • JavaScript
2010
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
2011
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
2012
  • Shell
2013
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python
2014
  • JavaScript
2015
  • JavaScript
  • Shell
2016
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Shell
  • TypeScript
2017
  • JavaScript
2018
  • JavaScript
2019
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
2020
  • JavaScript
2022
  • JavaScript

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

1 repositories created in 2009 5 repositories created in 2010 3 repositories created in 2011 1 repositories created in 2012 5 repositories created in 2013 1 repositories created in 2014 5 repositories created in 2015 7 repositories created in 2016 5 repositories created in 2017 1 repositories created in 2018 4 repositories created in 2019 1 repositories created in 2020 1 repositories created in 2022 1 total repositories by end of 2009 6 total repositories by end of 2010 9 total repositories by end of 2011 10 total repositories by end of 2012 15 total repositories by end of 2013 16 total repositories by end of 2014 21 total repositories by end of 2015 28 total repositories by end of 2016 33 total repositories by end of 2017 34 total repositories by end of 2018 38 total repositories by end of 2019 39 total repositories by end of 2020 40 total repositories by end of 2022 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages →
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • Shell
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Python
Tooling →
  • Homebrew 1