As of August 26, 2026, GitHub reports that 398 merged pull requests carry my name on the author line. Twenty nine of those live inside repositories that I own myself, so I removed them from this count on purpose. What remains is the number that actually matters to me: 369 pull requests merged into other people's repositories , across 33 external projects , maintained by strangers who had zero reason to trust my code. Every single one of those 369 merges is real, dated, and linked in th...