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Dan Luu

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Mastodon @danluu@mastodon.social
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Followers
13.3K
Account age
8 yrs
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Known for

The benchmarkpocalypse: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/75 views The benchmarkpocalypse: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ There's no reason for software to be slow anymore: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/38 views There's no reason for software to be slow anymore: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/ What's the best programming language for coding agents? https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/31 views What's the best programming language for coding agents? https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/ Bug Blindness: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/24 views Bug Blindness: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/

📊 Post engagement

Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 24latest
25
Avg engagement / post
14–24
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
68/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2017
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 14 and 24 likes + reposts (median 22) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.

🔥 Top post: The benchmarkpocalypse: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ · 75 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
2.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 5 text · 7 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
666×
Follows 20 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The benchmarkpocalypse: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ ★ 75
Bug Blindness: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ ★ 24 RE: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111037093079443322 With the discussions of how bot traffic is flooding websites, I was surprised to find that my CDN is "only" using 3.5 TB/mo, up 3x in 3 years. Human traffic is probably down because I … ★ 13 There's no reason for software to be slow anymore: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/ ★ 38 What's the best programming language for coding agents? https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/ ★ 31 Earlier this year, the FTC Chair said "you're going to have a hard time keeping up with the number of cases we're gonna be bringing" on privacy. I guess this is starting? See https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Hims-Complaint-Reda… ★ 12 That 75% fixed it, but I would still feel tired after a long day. After the water filter, the other 25% of the problem went away over the course of a few weeks, which I chalked up to placebo. But after looking at the pre-filter, I'm suspic… ★ 17 For years, I had less mental energy than I used to. This used to be infinite, but it got harder to do things and I would get mentally exhausted after a lot of focus, which I can observe is common but didn't really used to happen to me. I t… ★ 14 When I moved into this place, I noticed that the water tastes a bit off and it tastes better (but still off) if you run the water for a long time (it turns out the standard advice for what to do if you have copper in your water is to run f… ★ 9 After a civil engineering prof mention that the people in their department who work on water quality/treatment tend to drink out of the water cooler and not drink tap water, I tried getting a water filtration system. "Everyone" says Vancou… ★ 22 In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he develop… ★ 22 Exercises in benchmarking and evals: performance math, winter tires, and DeepSWE / Senior SWE-Bench, https://danluu.com/exercise-7/ ★ 17

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mastodon.social
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
✅ 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 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 25 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🕵️ 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 (~0.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (8+ years old).

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

📸 Gallery

Bug Blindness: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ There's no reason for software to be slow anymore: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/ The benchmarkpocalypse: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ What's the best programming language for coding agents? https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/ Earlier this year, the FTC Chair said "you're going to have a hard time keeping up with the number of cases we're gonna be bringing" on privacy. I guess this is starting? See https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Hims-Complaint-Redacted-E-Filed.pdf. The bulk of the complaint is about standard scammy practices, but there's this section where the FTC is going after them because they promised In another variant of https://danluu.com/learn-what/, I caught up with a former colleague who worked on automated theorem proving. It turns out he's had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works really well", which surprised me to h Exercises in benchmarking and evals: performance math, winter tires, and DeepSWE / Senior SWE-Bench, https://danluu.com/exercise-7/

🔀 Audience overlap

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Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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