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Account age
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Every career path looks different, and mine is certainly not representative. Interestingly, little is known about typical career paths in the software industry. Let's change that with the career progression study: https://paulralph.name/career_progression/
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Dec 19latest
7
Avg engagement / post
2–7
Typical post (engagement)
4.2%
Engagement vs followers
40/100
Variable reach
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 7 likes + reposts (median 4) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: More and more people arguing against framing FOSS dependencies a · 30 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 6 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3×
Follows 124 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Role transitions, reorganizations, and software development: Teams split/merge, job profiles shift, colleagues move roles/retire. These changes are constant, but how do they impact the software systems being developed? We're exploring this…
Every career path looks different, and mine is certainly not representative. Interestingly, little is known about typical career paths in the software industry. Let's change that with the career progression study: https://paulralph.name/ca…
Question for my academic colleagues: How would you handle the following situation? Paper submitted, preprint published, paper rejected. Preprint gets cited as one of the first academic papers on a certain topic. Wondering if/how to mention…
* "the longer a defect stays undiscovered after being introduced in a software system's artefacts, the more expensive it is to correct" https://gist.github.com/Morendil/ebfa32d10528af04e2ccb8995e3cb4a7
Very interesting investigation by Laurent Bossavit looking into the defect cost increase claim* and its origin. The paper by Boehm&Basili often cited for a specific cost ratio actually does not contain said ratio. A forensic investigation …
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Every career path looks different, and mine is certainly not representative. Interestingly, little is known about typical career paths in the software industry. Let's change that with the career progression study: https://paulralph.name/ca…
Question for my academic colleagues: How would you handle the following situation? Paper submitted, preprint published, paper rejected. Preprint gets cited as one of the first academic papers on a certain topic. Wondering if/how to mention…
* "the longer a defect stays undiscovered after being introduced in a software system's artefacts, the more expensive it is to correct" https://gist.github.com/Morendil/ebfa32d10528af04e2ccb8995e3cb4a7
Very interesting investigation by Laurent Bossavit looking into the defect cost increase claim* and its origin. The paper by Boehm&Basili often cited for a specific cost ratio actually does not contain said ratio. A forensic investigation …
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🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.acm.org
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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
Dec 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 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~4.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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