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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
1.5%
Engagement vs followers
Jan 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: New blog post: Closing the Loop on iOS with Claude Code https:// · 4 likes + reposts
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Posting cadence
0.4 / week
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Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 2 image · 1 video.
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Or more realistically, I’m reading the textbook in a library with infinite bookshelves filled with all the world’s knowledge staring down at me, beckoning me to stop reading the boring thing and read something new.
Or more constructively, emailing the author saying “I started getting confused exactly 4.7 pages into chapter 3. Please fill in more of the details before that point.”
Imagining myself in high school reading a textbook for class, thinking “this is boring”, emailing the author with “this is boring, make it less boring” and getting a new copy delivered to my door 5 minutes later that’s less boring but prob…
I’m wondering if this broken charging behavior on my iPhone is an iOS bug or my charger. It happens like once a fortnight. Pauses charging at 80% while plugged in, then in the middle of the night switches to charging while actually drainin…
Hot take: the biggest little problem with macOS that causes me the most daily friction is lack of affordance for which window is active/key
New blog post: Print Design Mindset to App Design Mindset
https://twocentstudios.com/2026/01/29/print-design-mindset/
Some musings about how app design has changed over the history of iOS.
New blog post: Introducing Eki Bright 2.0
https://twocentstudios.com/2026/01/18/introducing-eki-bright-2.0/
Eki Bright has a new layout, new route screen, and lots of quality of life improvements.
If you're a Tokyo resident, try it out for…
New blog post: Shinkansen Live - Developing the App for iOS
https://twocentstudios.com/2025/12/25/shinkansen-live-developing-the-app-for-ios/
A brain dump about the technical challenges of my latest app, Shinkansen Live.
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Today I'm releasing Shinkansen Live, an iOS app for putting your Shinkansen Ticket details in a Live Activity.
Try it on your next Shinkansen trip.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756808516
New blog post: Shinkansen Live – Scan Your Ticket, Get a Live Activity
https://twocentstudios.com/2025/12/24/introducing-shinkansen-live-v1/
Blogging still has a lot of annoying minutia but this is an example of a remarkable quality of life level-up that CLI agents have unlocked:
> cut out 00:10 to 00:18 from this file: Simulator Screen Recording - iPhone 17 Pro - 2025-12-23 at…
I’m wondering if this broken charging behavior on my iPhone is an iOS bug or my charger. It happens like once a fortnight. Pauses charging at 80% while plugged in, then in the middle of the night switches to charging while actually drainin…
Hot take: the biggest little problem with macOS that causes me the most daily friction is lack of affordance for which window is active/key
New blog post: Print Design Mindset to App Design Mindset
https://twocentstudios.com/2026/01/29/print-design-mindset/
Some musings about how app design has changed over the history of iOS.
New blog post: Introducing Eki Bright 2.0
https://twocentstudios.com/2026/01/18/introducing-eki-bright-2.0/
Eki Bright has a new layout, new route screen, and lots of quality of life improvements.
If you're a Tokyo resident, try it out for…
New blog post: Shinkansen Live - Developing the App for iOS
https://twocentstudios.com/2025/12/25/shinkansen-live-developing-the-app-for-ios/
A brain dump about the technical challenges of my latest app, Shinkansen Live.
▶
Today I'm releasing Shinkansen Live, an iOS app for putting your Shinkansen Ticket details in a Live Activity.
Try it on your next Shinkansen trip.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756808516
New blog post: Shinkansen Live – Scan Your Ticket, Get a Live Activity
https://twocentstudios.com/2025/12/24/introducing-shinkansen-live-v1/
Blogging still has a lot of annoying minutia but this is an example of a remarkable quality of life level-up that CLI agents have unlocked:
> cut out 00:10 to 00:18 from this file: Simulator Screen Recording - iPhone 17 Pro - 2025-12-23 at…
🐘 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
Jan 2023
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
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 (~1.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
iOS engineer, artist, musician. Previously: Cookpad, Timehop. Living in Yokohama.
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