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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Mar 21latest
22
Avg engagement / post
15–23
Typical post (engagement)
3.2%
Engagement vs followers
67/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 15 and 23 likes + reposts (median 17) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations to · 68 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.17 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
6.5×
Follows 106 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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While it has been 18 months since I blogged about it, the json gem performance has improved quite significantly since, so now is a good time to add a few more parts to my JSON serie:
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2026/07/26/optimizing…
I wrote some more as a way to fight jet lag, hopefully it's still readable 😅: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/bundler/2026/04/20/bundle-features.html
With the new job, I didn't get much time or energy to blog lately, but I figured I'd use the various downtime while traveling to Ruby Kaigi to write about some of the things I worked on recently: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2…
Happy to share that today I'm starting as senior principal at Intercom!
I was recently reminded that not everyone fully understand what the frozen string literal magic comment is about.
So I figured it was the occasion for another deep dive.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/10/28/string-literals.…
I took some time to delve into my latest work on reducing Ractor contention. This time: Generic Instance Variables
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/08/11/unlocking-ractors-generic-variables.html
Bio update: s/Senior Staff Engineer on Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team/ funemployed/
After almost 12 years, today was my last day at the company. 🫡
Beyond performance work, I deprecated a bunch of APIs in the JSON gem, and added others, so I figured it would be a good occasion to talk about API design: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/08/02/whats-wrong-with-the-json-gem-api.html
I wrote a post to braindump what I'm currently working on: allowing lock-free access to class instance variables from Ractors.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/05/24/unlocking-ractors-class-variables.html
I did some sort of rubber duck blogging about a patch I'm currently working on: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/04/26/unlocking-ractors-object-id.html
Some personal thoughts on the usability of MySQL and PostgreSQL protocols:
https://byroot.github.io/performance/2025/03/21/database-protocols.html
Happy to share that today I'm starting as senior principal at Intercom!
I was recently reminded that not everyone fully understand what the frozen string literal magic comment is about.
So I figured it was the occasion for another deep dive.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/10/28/string-literals.…
I took some time to delve into my latest work on reducing Ractor contention. This time: Generic Instance Variables
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/08/11/unlocking-ractors-generic-variables.html
Bio update: s/Senior Staff Engineer on Shopify's Ruby and Rails infrastructure team/ funemployed/
After almost 12 years, today was my last day at the company. 🫡
Beyond performance work, I deprecated a bunch of APIs in the JSON gem, and added others, so I figured it would be a good occasion to talk about API design: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/json/2025/08/02/whats-wrong-with-the-json-gem-api.html
I wrote a post to braindump what I'm currently working on: allowing lock-free access to class instance variables from Ractors.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/05/24/unlocking-ractors-class-variables.html
I did some sort of rubber duck blogging about a patch I'm currently working on: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/04/26/unlocking-ractors-object-id.html
Some personal thoughts on the usability of MySQL and PostgreSQL protocols:
https://byroot.github.io/performance/2025/03/21/database-protocols.html
🐘 Community & instance
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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 22 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
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Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~3.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
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Rails core, Ruby committer, Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom.
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