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113
Account age
3 yrs
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Came across beautiful Snow Proteas near the summit of Cederberg Sneeuberg this morning! They're a very rare sight; Snow Proteas only grow in a few tiny areas in the Cape at high elevation. It was a 900m climb to get to them!
#BloomScrolling #SouthAfrica
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Lot's Wife, Cederberg, #SouthAfrica
#SilentSunday
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My #OCaml peeps, have a look at this HTML templating ppx by @last. If you've worked with the HEEx templating language in #Elixir's Phoenix framework, #heml will be very familiar. It allows you to blend markup and code in a clean, flexible way.
https://github.com/pjlast/heml
The nice thing about #heml is that it uses #menhir's capability to do incremental parsing of OCaml code inside the template –
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Night before the race vibes
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 24latest
8
Avg engagement / post
4–14
Typical post (engagement)
7.1%
Engagement vs followers
65/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 14 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Came across beautiful Snow Proteas near the summit of Cederberg · 20 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.19 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 190 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Came across beautiful Snow Proteas near the summit of Cederberg Sneeuberg this morning! They're a very rare sight; Snow Proteas only grow in a few tiny areas in the Cape at high elevation. It was a 900m climb to get to them!
#BloomScrolling #SouthAfrica
@mitchellh While running Sourcegraph Amp in ghostty on Linux we found that we couldn't submit prompts with the enter key any more. It turns out ghostty emits shift+meta+enter when the enter key is pressed and numlock is on – but only under…
Lot's Wife, Cederberg, #SouthAfrica
#SilentSunday
Can't wait to try out the next edition! I rather disliked VI and continued to play V
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113838410458249919
WIFE: I wish I could actually staple my charisma to my CV.
ME: That's the problem, you sound way too millennial. The kids don't use those words any more. You probably want to put a rizz sticker on your resumé or something.
WIFE: On my rizz…
Quite enjoyed @Nicd's mini-rant about the AI reavers coming for code on his home server.
It really illustrates one of the hidden costs of the data-hungry AI scrapers – the burden that is placed on the host to serve the data.
https://blog.n…
Not sure what to make of these "climate change Polyanna" stories of exciting new ways to adapt to rising sea levels 😕
https://flipboard.com/@kafkaturtle/farm-to-table-movement-juaibtn1z/-/a-R7BFU0RaTumRIaZYjNkhDA%3Aa%3A27059770-%2F0
My #OCaml peeps, have a look at this HTML templating ppx by @last. If you've worked with the HEEx templating language in #Elixir's Phoenix framework, #heml will be very familiar. It allows you to blend markup and code in a clean, flexible …
Who decided to call them "sheep shows" instead of "bleaty pageants"?
#sheep #agriculture
A colleague today proposed "${name}'s Law": It is provably impossible to write a templating language that cannot accidentally crap out its own internal syntax.
#SouthAfrica peeps, I need your advice. I voted for a slightly smaller party in the elections this week, but when I go to my voting station's results at https://maps.elections.org.za/NPEResultsFinder/ it shows zero votes for that party. I …
Night before the race vibes
Lot's Wife, Cederberg, #SouthAfrica
#SilentSunday
Can't wait to try out the next edition! I rather disliked VI and continued to play V
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113838410458249919
WIFE: I wish I could actually staple my charisma to my CV.
ME: That's the problem, you sound way too millennial. The kids don't use those words any more. You probably want to put a rizz sticker on your resumé or something.
WIFE: On my rizz…
Quite enjoyed @Nicd's mini-rant about the AI reavers coming for code on his home server.
It really illustrates one of the hidden costs of the data-hungry AI scrapers – the burden that is placed on the host to serve the data.
https://blog.n…
Not sure what to make of these "climate change Polyanna" stories of exciting new ways to adapt to rising sea levels 😕
https://flipboard.com/@kafkaturtle/farm-to-table-movement-juaibtn1z/-/a-R7BFU0RaTumRIaZYjNkhDA%3Aa%3A27059770-%2F0
My #OCaml peeps, have a look at this HTML templating ppx by @last. If you've worked with the HEEx templating language in #Elixir's Phoenix framework, #heml will be very familiar. It allows you to blend markup and code in a clean, flexible …
Who decided to call them "sheep shows" instead of "bleaty pageants"?
#sheep #agriculture
A colleague today proposed "${name}'s Law": It is provably impossible to write a templating language that cannot accidentally crap out its own internal syntax.
#SouthAfrica peeps, I need your advice. I voted for a slightly smaller party in the elections this week, but when I go to my voting station's results at https://maps.elections.org.za/NPEResultsFinder/ it shows zero votes for that party. I …
Night before the race vibes
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A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
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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 8 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
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Credibility score
92%
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Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~7.1% 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.
About
Founder of octoco.ltd, custostech.com & fanfire.ai. Innovation management & tech entrepreneurship as my day job, with software engineering & signal theory as guilty delights. Blockchain pragmatist. Extra-Ordinary Prof @ Stellenbosch University for fun & !profit. World's Best Dad by constituency vote. Avid trail runner. Reader.
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