Jim was the curator of those shapes examples, amongst other somewhat larger things (such as, oh, Rake and RubyGems), and probably one of the most famous of our lot with his own Wikipedia page.
His last GitHub commit is a memorial:
https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4
His last GitHub commit is a memorial:
https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4