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Followers
21
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
14.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I'm coming to understand that a company in this country cannot o · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.72 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.2×
Follows 91 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Is an #activiypub based calendar an idea worth deep thought?
It seems non-obvious that cuddling a live moose is a significantly worse idea than snuggling a live hedgehog --- toddler dad thoughts
thinking about how to make proper use of the words iterate and increment in regards to software creation... When writing a behavior, iterate on your writing (don't stop at one draft)...and healthy software grows incrementally (and not alwa…
Just finished my first read through of @kentbeck's tidy first (which was great!) the promise of trashing code reviews has me looking at the practice closely, hunting for the bad.... why do we do code reviews?? It shouldn't be for correctne…
I've never gotten to play ttrpgs, but I've wanted to since I found out they were a thing...now I'm planning a round of barkeep on the borderlands (because it looks awesome) and I'm so nervous and excited....why do things the easy way...
#adventofcode2023 first couple days have been great! Got caught up last night. Looking forward to learning more about #zig every day...I really want to understand when and how to use the compile time and get better at memory management.
ht…
linked code blocks in markdown
https://github.com/whytheplatypus/markdown-linked-code-blocks
Just something I'm starting to think about. I like the idea of decoupling comments from code. I think it makes room for a broad spectrum of things…
affhirm - a quick #fhir validator in #rust
https://github.com/whytheplatypus/affhirm
Still a draft, this has been a test bed for me to practice as a I run a workshop on working with the fhir specification.
switchboard - a reverse proxy for a home lab configured through mdns
https://github.com/whytheplatypus/switchboard
I put this together because I wanted a reverse proxy setup where I could configure the routes etc. without having to interac…
https://shareable.theater/ - something put together early in the pandemic to let people watch movies together... I'm going to claim that I got this done and working before the "watch party" feature came out on any of the streaming platform…
I stopped calling things a postmortem for awhile because I was worried it was too dark.... but it's just a great word, I think it's time for the pendulum to swing back the other way
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
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 0.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated83/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.1× 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
Itinerant tech lead at Fearless in #Baltimore. I kibitz about code and really just want to make the whole experience of creating software better.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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