🤝
Make a deal with Simon Tatham
🔒 Paid proposals held safely in escrow — released only when the work's approved.
Followers
4.8K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Simon Tatham
📊 Post engagement
81
Avg engagement / post
1.7%
Engagement vs followers
Sep 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Bah, why isn't the 🔍 emoji at U+221B? · 358 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
149×
Follows 32 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
View on Mastodon ↗
The best example I've ever managed to come up with is the search problem in the game of Boggle: find a path through a grid of letters, never revisiting a square, that spells out a word. You can simplify the problem by giving a _specific_ w…
What's a _good_ example, for teaching recursion to a novice programmer?
I think a common mistake is to use a too-easy introductory problem, which you can solve easily without recursion. Like calculating a factorial, or a Fibonacci number. …
The thing about writing "I've never got round to debugging this" in a Mastodon post is that then you feel silly, and get round to debugging it. (Result!)
The reason why VLC was failing to inhibit my laptop screensaver, it appears, is becau…
Although, fun fact: xlogo is not quite as simple an X11 application as it looks. It's not just plain Xlib; it's linked against Xt, and in particular, has Xt's standard reconfigurable key-binding system, in the form of an "XLogo*baseTransla…
This month I've been using xlogo as a workaround for the fact that VLC is failing to inhibit my laptop's screensaver, so that if I connect to a TV to show a video, there's a risk of it blanking part way through.
$ while xlogo -geometry 200…
'xlogo' is close to the simplest possible X11 program. But it has so many uses.
• A ruler! Make an xlogo, drag it to a size, and if your WM shows a size tooltip as you drag, you can measure distances in pixels. Any X11 app works for this (…
Around 2002, at work, I was involved in implementing support for Japanese character sets in an embedded library. A colleague from our Japanese office visited, and we worked together on it for about a week.
Before she left, she gave me a sm…
#TIL that you can turn off the newfangled annoying "download stuff from debuginfod.ubuntu.com?" prompt every time #gdb runs, by unsetting DEBUGINFOD_URLS in the environment.
That must have been annoying me ever since Ubuntu 24.04 came out,…
If I do, then perhaps I should also get round to making the alias 'got doff'.
I wonder if I should make an alias wrapping 'git clone', which detects when its first two arguments are also 'git clone' and quietly ignores them, because I typed 'git clone [paste]' and the thing I pasted was an example git clone command …
Sometimes the only hint you need to solve a puzzle is that it can be solved without a hint.
Last week a colleague and I were staring in puzzlement at something weird in a terminal window. After 30 seconds I said "Oh! I've worked out why th…
🐘 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.
✅ 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
Sep 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 81 views per post.
📤Posts about 4× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
90/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.7% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Free software developer and hobby mathematician.
Author and lead developer of #PuTTY, and "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection", a set of one-player puzzle games running on many platforms. Also various smaller or less well known things.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
Affordance Info :verified:
17%
infozentrale
16%
Arkenston
15%
Esteban Küber :rust:
13%
Derek Powazek 🐐
10%
queer.de
10%
More like this
Find more →
Mastodon
Esteban Küber :rust:
@ekuber@hachyderm.io
4.9K
Followers
Mastodon
Arkenston
@arkenston@mastodon.world
4.8K
Followers
Mastodon
infozentrale
@infozentrale@mastodon.social
4.8K
Followers
Mastodon
Derek Powazek 🐐 ✓
@fraying@xoxo.zone
4.8K
Followers
Mastodon
queer.de ✓
@queerde@mastodon.social
4.8K
Followers
Mastodon
Affordance Info :verified:
@affordance@mamot.fr
4.8K
Followers
✉ Message Simon Tatham
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 Simon Tatham
Booking an event / appearance is a Pro feature. Upgrade to book Simon Tatham for an in-person or virtual appearance — payment held safely in escrow until the event is done.
- ✓ Book them for events, livestreams, panels & more
- ✓ Simon Tatham 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.