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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jun 6latest
17
Avg engagement / post
12–23
Typical post (engagement)
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
71/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 12 and 23 likes + reposts (median 18) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: New blog post, in which I lament how LLMs will be used for writi · 38 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.3×
Follows 1.3K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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My talk from the inaugural softwareshould.work conference is now online! I got a chance to talk about one of my favorite topics in software reliability: saturation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYCRubnmSM
The fingers remember their passwords of which reason knows nothing.
This post gave me an excuse to play with GraphSketcher: https://github.com/graphsketcher/GraphSketcher
New blog post: synthesis is harder than analysis
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/synthesis-is-harder-than-analysis/
I wrote a column for the Journal of Systems and Software: "Dear researchers: help me deal with incidents!"
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/16/dear-researchers-column/
Fable of the deconstruction
The slow and the curious
If you can’t see the constraints imposed on the system, you won’t be able to make sense of the resulting behavior.
Bonus blog post for today about my instinctual revulsion towards AI slop:
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/i-cant-bear-to-read-ai-generated-prose/
New blog post: The demon of the gaps
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/the-demon-of-the-gaps/
Newfoundland has a forgotten separatist movement. Here’s a story from back in 2003: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-separatist-sentiment-on-the-rise-1.410339
🐘 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 17 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.5× 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 (~0.6% 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.
About
Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about learning from incidents in software.
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