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274
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Sam Saffron
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Please do not ignore my warning: lazy.nvim is a massive supply c · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 4 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
4.1×
Follows 67 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Please do not ignore my warning: lazy.nvim is a massive supply chain attack waiting to happen that is trivially mitigated. https://github.com/SamSaffron/dotfiles/commit/298df0c1c4cfc1e3990fdad622d6fdefa267756e
Leveraging graph engineering vs loop engineering to improve Agentic report generation. ;p https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-accuracy-of-ai-reporting-through-validation/408794?u=sam
Adding agent skills to @discourse https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-discourse-ai-agent-skills/408666?u=sam , keep the skills as topics in a category
I benched Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.6 / Laguna XS on my 4090. Laguna has a bit of catching up to do. https://wasnotwas.com/writing/same-score-different-brains-coding-agents-on-an-rtx-4090/
enjoying this new planning UI, it is cool to be able to easily see where the dynamic plan the agent decided on is at
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We ship with dynamic translation at @discourse (bablefish++ mode interact in any language), today I worked on making sure AI summaries are also dynamically translated! This was all translated with DeepSeek v4 Flash
protip, if you want to murder a formatting error, swap from JSON -> forced tool calls, they are better almost always
Arch Linux is the best, but it lacks tact, the first thing I needed to type in to the terminal after returning from my holidays was "yay".
So much discussion about the destruction of software engineering due to AI and so little discussion about the novel ways we can use these tools to make all our software more reliable. Memory leak hunts, autoresearch and perf, segfault hunt…
Ported our daily AI reports on meta @discourse to use the new discourse-workflows plugin we are building. https://meta.discourse.org/admin/plugins/discourse-workflows/workflows/33 - Example at: https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-summary-5a…
Started working on a new gem called safe_image https://github.com/discourse/safe_image it is an extraction of all image handling in Discourse with strict security in mind landlock/env pruning/limits etc etc. Implemented both in Image Magi…
"Anthropic-controlled automation gets bundled. Externally controlled automation gets metered." tons of words in the slop tower Jarvis made with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, but that is the point worth remembering: https://wasnotwas.com/writing/wa…
enjoying this new planning UI, it is cool to be able to easily see where the dynamic plan the agent decided on is at
▶
We ship with dynamic translation at @discourse (bablefish++ mode interact in any language), today I worked on making sure AI summaries are also dynamically translated! This was all translated with DeepSeek v4 Flash
protip, if you want to murder a formatting error, swap from JSON -> forced tool calls, they are better almost always
Arch Linux is the best, but it lacks tact, the first thing I needed to type in to the terminal after returning from my holidays was "yay".
So much discussion about the destruction of software engineering due to AI and so little discussion about the novel ways we can use these tools to make all our software more reliable. Memory leak hunts, autoresearch and perf, segfault hunt…
Ported our daily AI reports on meta @discourse to use the new discourse-workflows plugin we are building. https://meta.discourse.org/admin/plugins/discourse-workflows/workflows/33 - Example at: https://meta.discourse.org/t/daily-summary-5a…
Started working on a new gem called safe_image https://github.com/discourse/safe_image it is an extraction of all image handling in Discourse with strict security in mind landlock/env pruning/limits etc etc. Implemented both in Image Magi…
"Anthropic-controlled automation gets bundled. Externally controlled automation gets metered." tons of words in the slop tower Jarvis made with Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, but that is the point worth remembering: https://wasnotwas.com/writing/wa…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 1.4× 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 (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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Open source hacker, Co-CEO Discourse
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