R.I.Pienaar✓ Add us as a preferred source on Google
🔄 Data last refreshed 5 hours ago
🤝
Make a deal with R.I.Pienaar
🔒 Paid proposals held safely in escrow — released only when the work's approved.
Followers
790
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🎁 Free analysisfor R.I.Pienaar
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Wife has gone from never will you keep a 3D printer in the house · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
8.4 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 427 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
View on Mastodon ↗
Here’s a video walkthrough of the conformance system I built, this is for NATS and we have clients in many languages talking to a server. All built from prose specifications.
This system build a testing harness that drives all real langua…
Spent an embarrassing amount of time nagging at Claude that 100% something changed on a web page it built between recent commits, it telling me nothings changed, and then discovering my monitor control upgraded during the night and it bump…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tailscale/117366606611582776
Never before was the importance of asking “should I” when met with “can I” more clear :)
What on earth. And starring Matthew Rhys?
Anyone seen this? Is it awful?
Still low tech coffee roasting. Today a 20:80 ish blend of light and medium dark Ethiopian to get a very enjoyable mix of fruity + classical coffee taste
With access to full message protocol trace per test for debugging
Client tests next
https://gist.github.com/ripienaar/4633a03440beb49ff0258c0a4d223660
Progress with my testing framework \o/
ADR assertions turned to given/when/then with exact citation and then exact test code that verifies that shown
A single ADR turned into 91 test assertions and ran across 3 x major server version lines
Example rule:
lines:
8: server -> client
11: only matching certain subjects and also sets a parser for the subject tokens
12: typed int match on a subject token
15: drop it
16: once only per connection
It would drop the message on this sub…
When I was a super junior sysad I asked my senior how I could make a mall server and then how does it work. He taught me tcpdump instead.
Still thankful for that holy shit looking at how things talk and learning systems by observation is …
Have a whole AI based extraction of big rule sets (given-when-then style) that turns our ADRs into suites descriving in a much stricter way how protocols are to be built.
Those turn into assertions and testing suites.
Ultimately one suit…
Currently finishing a new kind of rule engine that I can inject into the firewall machinery that can drop/shape/corrupt traffic based on rules - nth message on this subject where 5th token is an int and that int == 20 from a client matchin…
What on earth. And starring Matthew Rhys?
Anyone seen this? Is it awful?
Still low tech coffee roasting. Today a 20:80 ish blend of light and medium dark Ethiopian to get a very enjoyable mix of fruity + classical coffee taste
With access to full message protocol trace per test for debugging
Client tests next
https://gist.github.com/ripienaar/4633a03440beb49ff0258c0a4d223660
Progress with my testing framework \o/
ADR assertions turned to given/when/then with exact citation and then exact test code that verifies that shown
A single ADR turned into 91 test assertions and ran across 3 x major server version lines
Example rule:
lines:
8: server -> client
11: only matching certain subjects and also sets a parser for the subject tokens
12: typed int match on a subject token
15: drop it
16: once only per connection
It would drop the message on this sub…
When I was a super junior sysad I asked my senior how I could make a mall server and then how does it work. He taught me tcpdump instead.
Still thankful for that holy shit looking at how things talk and learning systems by observation is …
Have a whole AI based extraction of big rule sets (given-when-then style) that turns our ADRs into suites descriving in a much stricter way how protocols are to be built.
Those turn into assertions and testing suites.
Ultimately one suit…
Currently finishing a new kind of rule engine that I can inject into the firewall machinery that can drop/shape/corrupt traffic based on rules - nth message on this subject where 5th token is an int and that int == 20 from a client matchin…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
devco.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
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 8.4× per week.
🕵️ 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 (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I am a consultant working on very large scale automation backplanes specialising in highly distributed server estates with 100s of thousands or millions of nodes.
Instagram: ripienaar
Flickr: ripienaar
🇿🇦🇬🇧🇱🇻🇲🇹🇪🇺
#searchable
📸 Gallery
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
Jennie Kermode
18%
Leanpub
13%
Peter Frederick
12%
Phil Wolff
12%
Philip Moscovitch
10%
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈⬛
10%
More like this
Find more →
Mastodon
＋
Philip Moscovitch ✓
@philmoscovitch@mstdn.ca
790
Followers
Mastodon
＋
Peter Frederick
@pfred60@aus.social
790
Followers
Mastodon
＋
Jennie Kermode
@jennie_kermode@toot.community
790
Followers
Mastodon
＋
Leanpub
@leanpub@cliff.social
790
Followers
Mastodon
＋
Phil Wolff
@evanwolf@mastodon.social
790
Followers
Mastodon
＋
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈⬛
@gamrok@mastodon.social
790
Followers
Frequently asked questions
How much does R.I.Pienaar charge for a sponsorship?
R.I.Pienaar hasn't published fixed prices yet. Send a proposal through SocialDB and agree terms directly — your payment is held in escrow until the work is approved.
How do I contact R.I.Pienaar for a brand deal or collaboration?
Send a paid deal or collab request right here on SocialDB — we notify R.I.Pienaar, and once they accept, your payment is held safely in escrow and released when the work is approved. You don't need to track down an email.
How many followers does R.I.Pienaar have?
R.I.Pienaar has 790 followers on Mastodon.
✉ Message R.I.Pienaar
Reaching out to influencers is a Pro feature. Upgrade to message any influencer directly — perfect for brands and agencies booking sponsorships.
- ✓ Message any influencer from their listing
- ✓ The influencer gets notified by email
- ✓ Manage every conversation in one inbox
Already Pro? Log in.
🎤 Event / appearance with R.I.Pienaar
Booking an event / appearance is a Pro feature. Upgrade to book R.I.Pienaar for an in-person or virtual appearance — payment held safely in escrow until the event is done.
- ✓ Book them for events, livestreams, panels & more
- ✓ R.I.Pienaar gets notified by email
- ✓ Fee held in escrow, released after the appearance
Already Pro? Log in.
🚀
You're out of free requests this month
Free accounts get 5 per month. Go Pro for unlimited sponsor pitches, collab requests & sponsorship deals — plus featured placement, the Verified badge, free withdrawals and more.
Upgrade to Pro — $9.95/mo →Your free limit resets on the 1st of next month.
Auto-generated from Mastodon's public data — no affiliation with or endorsement by SocialDB. Is this you? Claim it · Remove