Developer publishes self-audit process to keep solo ESLint plugin benchmarks honest

A solo developer benchmarking his own ESLint plugins against competitors published a detailed methodology on July 5, 2026, aimed at preventing bias in self-reported results. He discovered a critical error before publishing when eslint-plugin-unicorn falsely returned zero detections out of 40, traced to a stale Node version silently failing the run. To counter the inherent conflict of interest in vendor benchmarks, he adopted practices including upfront author disclosures, a publicly available fixture suite on GitHub, and a pre-built test corpus mapped to OWASP Top 10 and CWE categories created before any plugin rules were written. He draws on models like the OWASP Benchmark Project and Warren Buffett's practice of publicly acknowledging his worst calls, framing transparency as a process rather than a disclaimer. The full benchmark suite and methodology are open for independent verification on GitHub.