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Followers
361
Account age
8 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 8latest
4
Avg engagement / post
2–5
Typical post (engagement)
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
73/100
Consistent reach
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 5 likes + reposts (median 3) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Nice day to walk up a hill #SilentSunday · 8 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 583 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Nice day to walk up a hill #SilentSunday
Somehow got a bunch of people around a table to play Shadowdark this weekend and had a great time. Shadowdark is a fun throwback to 80s Dungeons and Dragons that retains some 5e mechanics but simplifies things all around. It takes away emp…
Every time I hear people talk about "frontier models" this song by The Avalanches pops into my head.
https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE
Ridiculous summertime eggs
Farmers market morning
Happy new Hermanos Gutiérrez song day to all who celebrate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJyBZO6xhw
Siri, set a timer for fifteen minutes.
Excellent choice, fifteen minutes is a classic amount of time for many common tasks or activities that people need to time. Since you’ve used thirty minute timers before you might want to split the di…
I subscribe to The DSR Network to support their lefty podcasts. They just announced they’re moving everything to Substack which means they’ve lost my support. I don’t know how supposedly liberal organizations make these decisions.
LLMs can fabricate non-existent classes and make up any BS that sounds good, but if I forget one semicolon or mistype a variable name everything breaks and I get blamed. So unfair. I was hallucinating too! Give me venture money!
Feels like the future of tech work is constantly checking several cloud service status pages to see where you can work.
The Bluesky-is-a-net-negative-for-politics discourse is really infuriating to me for some reason. I guess the thinking is that if liberal leaning people would have stayed in their abusive social media relationship racists wouldn't be as fa…
Got to see Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa and his band play last night and it was such a treat. In an interview before the show he said that there is no difference between past and present in music--it's all one now.
Ridiculous summertime eggs
Farmers market morning
Happy new Hermanos Gutiérrez song day to all who celebrate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJyBZO6xhw
Siri, set a timer for fifteen minutes.
Excellent choice, fifteen minutes is a classic amount of time for many common tasks or activities that people need to time. Since you’ve used thirty minute timers before you might want to split the di…
I subscribe to The DSR Network to support their lefty podcasts. They just announced they’re moving everything to Substack which means they’ve lost my support. I don’t know how supposedly liberal organizations make these decisions.
LLMs can fabricate non-existent classes and make up any BS that sounds good, but if I forget one semicolon or mistype a variable name everything breaks and I get blamed. So unfair. I was hallucinating too! Give me venture money!
Feels like the future of tech work is constantly checking several cloud service status pages to see where you can work.
The Bluesky-is-a-net-negative-for-politics discourse is really infuriating to me for some reason. I guess the thinking is that if liberal leaning people would have stayed in their abusive social media relationship racists wouldn't be as fa…
Got to see Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa and his band play last night and it was such a treat. In an interview before the show he said that there is no difference between past and present in music--it's all one now.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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✅ 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
Aug 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.1× per week.
📍Based in United States.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (8+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Oh hi! Me? I'm in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. I’m a father of two and a web developer. In the past I have worked on MetaFilter, O’Reilly tech books, and Blogger.
This is a personal account and I'm never speaking on behalf of my employer.
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