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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Mar 3latest
3
Avg engagement / post
2–3
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
80/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 3 likes + reposts (median 3) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: But there are testing opportunities too: 1. I am willing to make · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.51 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.7×
Follows 757 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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"Code was never the hard part" reminds me of the sentiment of "you can't solve social problems with technology" and the general critique of "solutionism".
These critiques aren't all wrong. But when you frame even quality and effectiveness …
Sitting in the audience at conferences creates an asymmetric intellectual stimulation that leads me to silly places #OSSummit
I feel like a significant part of the popularity of developer terminal/tui tools is that developers do a lot of environment related customization (directly or indirectly) and gui dev tools are hard to configure in the same way and often ha…
I was doing some research on archival photo storage, and I've totally missed the existence of the AVIF format.
It's fairly new but well supported, as much as 40-55% smaller than JPEG, and doesn't have the same edge artifacts (so it's appro…
Someone was talking about making an app for a local tool share, making it purely as a public good, not a business.
In the past this would be a Good Idea That Won't Happen (because despite good intentions it was too big a job for a hobby). …
Files have types/extensions, but directories do not, and I think that's unfortunate, it would help if they could be typed.
Or maybe I just wish a file could also be a directory.
(Is this what Mac Resource Forks were about?)
Someone asked if anyone needed a hug, and in fact at that moment I did need a hug but every default in me said that I did not.
I think this is a widespread masculine response. But I did take a moment (oddly, before the hug) to reflect on w…
I vibecoded and have been vibeusing this TypeScript doctest library: https://github.com/ianb/agent-doctest
I think it's working well? Sometimes it's very hard to tell!
Reading @simon's description of the AI chardet clean room relicensed implementation: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/
One of the arguments against this being a valid reimplementation is that the person who guided the implement…
I've been rethinking my testing strategy for agentically coded projects (i.e., vibecoded; where I'm not touching the code directly).
It's easy to just have it go and make tests, and sometimes poke it or add instructions to make more tests.…
My daughter and I have very different opinions on whether one should use shuffle when listening to an auto-generated playlist.
Sitting in the audience at conferences creates an asymmetric intellectual stimulation that leads me to silly places #OSSummit
I feel like a significant part of the popularity of developer terminal/tui tools is that developers do a lot of environment related customization (directly or indirectly) and gui dev tools are hard to configure in the same way and often ha…
I was doing some research on archival photo storage, and I've totally missed the existence of the AVIF format.
It's fairly new but well supported, as much as 40-55% smaller than JPEG, and doesn't have the same edge artifacts (so it's appro…
Someone was talking about making an app for a local tool share, making it purely as a public good, not a business.
In the past this would be a Good Idea That Won't Happen (because despite good intentions it was too big a job for a hobby). …
Files have types/extensions, but directories do not, and I think that's unfortunate, it would help if they could be typed.
Or maybe I just wish a file could also be a directory.
(Is this what Mac Resource Forks were about?)
Someone asked if anyone needed a hug, and in fact at that moment I did need a hug but every default in me said that I did not.
I think this is a widespread masculine response. But I did take a moment (oddly, before the hug) to reflect on w…
I vibecoded and have been vibeusing this TypeScript doctest library: https://github.com/ianb/agent-doctest
I think it's working well? Sometimes it's very hard to tell!
Reading @simon's description of the AI chardet clean room relicensed implementation: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/
One of the arguments against this being a valid reimplementation is that the person who guided the implement…
I've been rethinking my testing strategy for agentically coded projects (i.e., vibecoded; where I'm not touching the code directly).
It's easy to just have it go and make tests, and sometimes poke it or add instructions to make more tests.…
My daughter and I have very different opinions on whether one should use shuffle when listening to an auto-generated playlist.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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About
Software developer from Minneapolis, long lapsed open source author, these days very focused with developing with LLMs
Looking for work/projects; previously Mozilla, Meta, Brilliant.org. he/him
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