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Followers
5.4K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 10latest
81
Avg engagement / post
26–79
Typical post (engagement)
1.5%
Engagement vs followers
49/100
Variable reach
Sep 2023
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 26 and 79 likes + reposts (median 52) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 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
170×
Follows 32 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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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 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 81 views per post.
📤Posts about 4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.5% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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.
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