Scouting report
Creator of FiraMonaco font — 137★, his biggest hit
assessed from open-source footprint
Giancarlos's standout is 'FiraMonaco' (137★), a Monaco font patched with Fira Code ligatures, anchoring 178 total stars across a 12-year frontend-leaning catalogue. Be honest about activity: just 4 commits last year and a 0.97 abandonment ratio, so the profile is a strong past portfolio (33 merged PRs lifetime) rather than current output. A talented JS/TS frontend engineer best known for a genuinely popular developer tool.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- Web & CMS
- Productivity & SaaS
- Media & Streaming
Signal breakdown
178
top repo 137
38
35% forks
53
12.2 yr
2
Active
97% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on giancastle-blog
- 33 merged pull requests
- Original builder — 38 of their own repositories
- 178 stars earned across projects
- A standout project with 137 stars
- Ships to production — 2 live demos
- Frontend focus with Backend
About
Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Firacode
- Font
- Ligature
- Ligatures
- Monaco
- Monospace
Featured work
FiraMonaco
Monaco Font with Firacode ligatures and patched for Powerline 📝
- Firacode
- Font
- Ligature
- Ligatures
- Monaco
by Giancarlos Castillo
Giancastle Blog
Personal website where I shared my thoughs on many topics.
- TypeScript
- Blog
- Gastby
- Jamstack
by Giancarlos Castillo
useform
Manage your forms with magic ✨ 🧙🏽♂️
- JavaScript
- React
- React Hooks
by Giancarlos Castillo
Jam Stack Blog
My blog, where I throw letters to void
- JavaScript
- Jam Stack
- Netifly
- Netlify Cms
- React
by Giancarlos Castillo
Rn Cocktail App
A J4F React Native simple app that search cocktails 🍸
- TypeScript
- Expo
- React Native
- Redux
- Redux Thunk
by Giancarlos Castillo
divoc
🦠A just for fun Covid monitor web but better (no Typescript)
- JavaScript
- Covid 19
- Lodash
- React
- Redux
by Giancarlos Castillo