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