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Followers
747
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Mark Heckler
📊 Post engagement
8
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Jun 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Just got caught up in the latest round of terminations from Micr · 32 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.32 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.5×
Follows 299 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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"Agile, How It Became Less Agile?" — Mark Heckler https://youtube.com/shorts/rMdexEfrTS8?si=HplrmTCTn7Ig2BQr
This was a small snippet from a fun, and hopefully thought-provoking, keynote I was honored to deliver @confooca 2025.
LIFE UPDATE!
I've resigned from my position as Senior Director of Field Engineering at Moderne.
I still believe in the mission of code modernization. I just see myself taking a different path.
I have a few pet projects I plan to nurture & …
Let's make the world of software, and by extension the world in general, a quantifiably better place.
Visionary organizations identify opportunities, then look for ways to increase capacity to take advantage of those opportunities.
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm joining Moderne, Inc., creators of OpenRewrite, as Senior Director of Field Engineering!
Moderne supercharges code modernization with automated refactoring, analysis, and transformation, empowering organiz…
📢 Expanded response timeout to allow Editor agent to go deeper. Repos at the end of the article. #Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 15: Application Security
https://thehecklers.com/2025/04/application-security/
Content generation & editing usi…
Whoo, this is a big one!
All critiques included & repos at the end of the article. ✅
#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 14: Observability & Performance
https://thehecklers.com/2025/04/observability-and-performance/
Content generation & editing…
#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 13: Model Context Protocol (#MCP) vs. #Agent2Agent
https://thehecklers.com/2025/04/model-context-protocol-vs-agent2agent/
Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Currently usin…
MAJOR CHANGES!
1. Broke writer & editor into separate services using REST API. Why REST (first)? Stay tuned.
2. Increased max sentence count for article, 15->20. Separating services + higher GPT-4.1 context window, less limiting.
3. Max it…
#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 12: Development Tools (done two ways!)
https://thehecklers.com/2025/04/development-tools-done-two-ways/
Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Now using gpt-4.1 on #AzureOpen…
#Agentic #AI blog writing, DAY 11: #Architecture and #AppModernization
https://thehecklers.com/2025/04/architecture-and-app-modernization/
Agentic content generation & editing using Evaluator-Optimizer pattern. Currently using o3-mini on #…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.cloud
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
On Mastodon since
Jun 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 8 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Mark has worked with key players in numerous industries and organizations to develop, deliver, and maintain critical capabilities securely, on time, and on budget. Mark is a Java Champion, open source contributor, author of Spring Boot: Up and Running (https://bit.ly/springbootbook), and a licensed, instrument-rated pilot.
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