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Followers
562
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law.39 views I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law. This is, like, 4000x more petrolhead than my usual scene. But it's quite a fun weekend out #DoningtonPark1 views This is, like, 4000x more petrolhead than my usual scene. But it's quite a fun weekend out #DoningtonPark

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Apr 19latest
6
Avg engagement / post
1–4
Typical post (engagement)
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
22/100
Variable reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 4 likes + reposts (median 2) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.

🔥 Top post: I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law. · 39 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.74 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.1×
Follows 183 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law. ★ 39
Free software activity in July 2026 More preparations for OpenSSH GSS-API split; the usual round of Python packaging work. Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-07.html ★ 2 Watching (or in my case rewatching) #Buffy with one of my kids. _Becoming_ still holds up remarkably well despite the dodgy 1990s effects. Some lovely comic moments amid the rather obvious tragedy. Spike and Joyce sitting awkwardly in th… ★ 3 I am really fucking bored of having gallstones. #ow ★ 1 Free software activity in June 2026 OpenSSL 4.0, pytest 9.1, and Python 3.14 as default. Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-06.html ★ 4 Ooh, after leaving windows open for several hours my bedroom might actually be at an inhabitable temperature. Maybe I'll sleep tonight. (It's hard to leave my bedroom windows open overnight because we face onto a main road: only a single… Free software activity in May 2026 OpenSSH security and IPQoS backports; the usual Python packaging work. Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-05.html ★ 1 Free software activity in April 2026 groff, OpenSSH, and parted updates; helped with dput-ng data loss fix. Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-04.html ★ 3 But the results obviously won't be stable across PostgreSQL versions. I don't mind needing to make the odd tweak, but I'd like to understand the scale of changes that we'd be signing up for over time. Are there any good-quality Django ap… ★ 1 While you can get big improvements here with relatively small changes, it's also easy to introduce problems like this, so ideally I'd have regression tests. Django has QuerySet.explain, so if I set things up right I could assert things ab… ★ 1 I might have some #Django friends who have experience with this sort of thing. I spent a good chunk of today doing #PostgreSQL query optimization: not indexes, but rather "if this query had a different but semantically-equivalent structur… ★ 13 This is, like, 4000x more petrolhead than my usual scene. But it's quite a fun weekend out #DoningtonPark ★ 1

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Home server
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✅ 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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
📍Based in Ireland.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
52/100
Fair Credibility score
76%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).

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

About

Irish geek. Happily married, father of four, polyamorous, left-wing, Reform Jew by choice. Debian and Ubuntu developer and freelancer, mainly working for Freexian. Formerly at Canonical on launchpad.net. Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge. אני לומד עברית. Previously @cjwatson.

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