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Chris Banes

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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $13→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $33→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $17→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $39/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $20/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $26/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $33/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→ 🎬UGC HireBranded content for your own channels & ads from $50→ 🎙️Podcast guest spotInvite Chris Banes onto your podcast (~45 min, remote) $31→ 📞1:1 ConsultPaid video call — advice, coaching or Q&A $75/hr→

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Followers
2.2K
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back! 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta0120 views 💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back! 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta01 💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.013 views 💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0 💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.012 views 💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0 Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices. It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank. I'm undecided whether to keep going with it. Let me know if this would be useful to you.6 views Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices. It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank. I'm undecided whether to keep going with it. Let me know if this would be useful to you.

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jan 9latest
12
Avg engagement / post
8–13
Typical post (engagement)
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
79/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 8 and 13 likes + reposts (median 12) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where d · 21 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.18 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 0 image · 4 video.
Follower / following
23×
Follows 98 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': https://chrisbanes.me/posts/disappearing-middle-ai-software-apprenticeship/ ★ 21
💠 Haze 2.0-alpha01 is out! This is a big release, splitting Haze up into layers, with the goal of enabling pluggable visual effects. Let me know what you think! https://chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2.0/ ★ 11 My team is looking for a new Android + KMP engineer! 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Looking for someone in Boston, New York, Toronto, Washington DC 📺 Working on Ventura TV OS (https://www.thetradedesk.com/ventura-streaming-tv-os) If you have any questions, feel fr… ★ 3 Amen https://mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw@jakewharton.com/115092064924190066 ★ 5 ▶ 💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0 ★ 13 ▶ 💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please gi… ★ 20 ▶ Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices. It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank. I'm undecided whether to keep … ★ 6 Haze 1.5.0 has been released: 💨 Optimised blur shader implementation (thanks to Kyant) 🖌️ New: HazeProgressive.Brush for custom progressive effects 🐛 Usual load of bugfixes https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.5.0 ★ 8 🪢 Multiplatform Strings This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps. https://chrisbanes.me/posts/multiplatform-strings/ ★ 12 🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance? I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😅 #Kotlin #A… ★ 15 Haze 1.3.0 has been released! 🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects 🖌️ Brush support in tints 🧑‍💻 New samples 📑 New docs courtesy of @mark https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.3.0 ★ 12 ▶ 💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0 ★ 12

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
androiddev.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
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 12 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
81/100
Excellent Credibility score
97%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

Composer of the pixels.

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💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0 💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. Please give it a try and report back! 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.6.0-beta01 Had a little hack getting Haze working on older Android devices. It uses RenderScript, so is never going to be real-time, but the lag isn't too bad. Everything is performed asynchronously, so this isn't jank. I'm undecided whether to keep going with it. Let me know if this would be useful to you. 💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: https://github.com/chrisbanes/haze/releases/tag/1.2.0

🔀 Audience overlap

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