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Andrew Cairns

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Bluesky @acairns.co.uk
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Followers
7.8K
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

What a hero!60 views What a hero! Yey! It's been a goal of mine to reach the YouTube Partner milestone for a number of years now.29 views Yey! It's been a goal of mine to reach the YouTube Partner milestone for a number of years now. This took me a while... all to add less than 10s to a video. But man, I loved this game!26 views This took me a while... all to add less than 10s to a video. But man, I loved this game! Incredible that 5k of you subscribe to my silly little channel explaining software things using metaphors and analogies. I hope you all know I have no idea how to make videos. I'm totally making it up and learning as I go. Having loads of fun, though!21 views Incredible that 5k of you subscribe to my silly little channel explaining software things using metaphors and analogies. I hope you all know I have no idea how to make videos. I'm totally making it up and learning as I go. Having loads of fun, though!

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 3latest
24
Avg engagement / post
18–26
Typical post (engagement)
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
77/100
Very consistent reach
Oct 2023
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 18 and 26 likes + reposts (median 23) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: What a hero! · 60 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 6 text · 4 image · 2 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 9.5K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post What a hero! ★ 60
This is my favourite part of creating content. Just being silly and entertaining myself. Spent the morning explaining OCP using a replicator from Star Trek 🖖 Any excuse for wee graphics and stuff like this. Loads of fun. ★ 12 Yey! It's been a goal of mine to reach the YouTube Partner milestone for a number of years now. ★ 29 Meyer coined the OCP principle and presented inheritance as the OOP way to achieve it. This was in the 1980s, using Eiffel. Eiffel is a tower. So are inheritance hierarchies. If I just ruined Paris for you, then... you're welcome. ★ 12 Incredible that 5k of you subscribe to my silly little channel explaining software things using metaphors and analogies. I hope you all know I have no idea how to make videos. I'm totally making it up and learning as I go. Having loads o… ★ 21 When you write to two systems in the same process - what do you do when one fails? I was inspired by an old card game I used to play: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfE_... ★ 18 Read about a few companies struggling with throughput now their output has dramatically increased. They say "code review has become a bottleneck". They are finding some creative solutions to the four-eyes principle while avoiding pair pro… ★ 23 ▶ Teaching Idempotency using my favourite card game while making a Silicon Valley "always blue" reference. Having fun like this is what keeps me making videos. Lord knows it's not the views! 🤣 ★ 19 ▶ This took me a while... all to add less than 10s to a video. But man, I loved this game! ★ 26 I hope Code with Claude 2026 is over before Bayern v PSG ★ 33 Was just DM'ed with an Event Sourcing question. Always happy to help and, as much as I'd love to plug my own stuffs, I mostly redirect folks to Event Sourcery from @shawnmc.cool www.youtube.com/@EventSource... ★ 15 Everything in your repo is part of the prompt. The loudest signal wins. Even if it's wrong: acairns.co.uk/posts/your-c... ★ 25

🦋 Handle & authenticity

✅ Domain-verified
@acairns.co.uk
The handle is the domain acairns.co.uk. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real acairns.co.uk account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Oct 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 24 views per post.
📤Posts about 1× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
66/100
Good Credibility score
77%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 77% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Follows 9.5K accounts — more than its own followers — a common follow-for-follow / bot pattern.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems. Kayaking, too.

📸 Gallery

This is my favourite part of creating content. Just being silly and entertaining myself. Spent the morning explaining OCP using a replicator from Star Trek 🖖 Any excuse for wee graphics and stuff like this. Loads of fun. What a hero! Yey! It's been a goal of mine to reach the YouTube Partner milestone for a number of years now. Incredible that 5k of you subscribe to my silly little channel explaining software things using metaphors and analogies. I hope you all know I have no idea how to make videos. I'm totally making it up and learning as I go. Having loads of fun, though! Teaching Idempotency using my favourite card game while making a Silicon Valley "always blue" reference. Having fun like this is what keeps me making videos. Lord knows it's not the views! 🤣 This took me a while... all to add less than 10s to a video. But man, I loved this game!

🔀 Audience overlap

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