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Followers
155
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🧰 Free analysis for Alan Ridlehoover :ruby:
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
3.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Are you a builder who prioritizes shipping software? Or are you · 21 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.38 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 150 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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If your codebase were an automobile, what kind would it be?
A sports car?
A minivan?
A pickup?
Regardless, if you let complexity sneak into your codebase, you'll be driving with one foot on the gas, and one on the brake. The more comple…
"Red, green, refactor" promotes premature abstraction.
Ward Cunningham once answered the "how do you convince management to refactor?" question with: "I don't. I give them two estimates—time to make room for the feature, then time to add …
Have you ever been told by an executive that test coverage past 80% produces diminishing returns?
Have you asked them which 20% you should not test?
Have they ever given you an answer?
Hot take: Developers who are happy to complain about friction within a process, generally don't lift a finger to resolve it.
Hot take: Developers will complain about other people's flaky tests but defer dealing with their own for as long as possible.
Hot take: Developers will complain about a build that takes two minutes longer than they think it should, but will gladly spend two days gold plating something.
A vision statement should be an inspirational postcard from an aspirational future. It should be brief. It should draw a picture. It should make you wish you were there!
https://the.codegardener.com/vision-mission-values/
#management #vis…
Hot take: The Rails Way™ favors modification over extension.
Software that is designed to be modified is software that is hard to change.
Software that is designed to be extended is software that is easy to change.
# My new favorite strategy for getting things done.
def actualize(vision)
think_big
start_small
deliver_value
earn_trust
grow_influence
end
vision = 1
do
actualize(vision)
vision += 1
end
#ruby #vision #gtd
Compliments are a reflection of the light you are putting out into the world.
Accept them graciously by recognizing that other people have a better view of your aura than your inner critic does.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Empathetic leader (@ Cisco).
Passionate Rubyist.
Fallible human.
Storyteller. International speaker.
Environmentalist. Feminist. Ally.
Swell photographer. Rusty drummer.
Loving twins dad and husband.
Owner of too many hats, given I only have the one head.
🔀 Audience overlap
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