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Account age
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🧰 Free analysis for Andrew Helwer
Known for
9 views
Dress code asked for "summery mountain vibes" but spouse accused me of serving '70s car salesman. North Carolina is pretty, anyway!
3 views
Will be giving a short lightning talk at the Software Should Work conference in Columbia, Missouri on July 16th! The topic: what sort of concurrency properties can you check using the Rust and Go language tooling these days?
#Rust #Golang
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Dress code asked for "summery mountain vibes" but spouse accused · 9 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.4×
Follows 290 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Dress code asked for "summery mountain vibes" but spouse accused me of serving '70s car salesman. North Carolina is pretty, anyway!
ok wolfram can still write a banger blog post once in a while
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towards-a-theory-of-bugs-the-ruliology-of-the-unexpected/
https://theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-strange-dream-where-they-were-watching-soccer/
I really thought those water jetpack things would play a larger part in the future we inhabit. You know, those ones appearing in tourism sizzle reels for tropical places like twelve years ago.
It is stupid baby crow season here in Seattle. They’ve all fledged and are wandering around the city, making hilarious attempts at cawing and with generally no idea what is going on. However, they remain closely chaperoned by their parents…
Getting an ebike really did fix all my problems
Will be giving a short lightning talk at the Software Should Work conference in Columbia, Missouri on July 16th! The topic: what sort of concurrency properties can you check using the Rust and Go language tooling these days?
#Rust #Golang
Gonna take a break from open source dev work. Back to standalone experiments & blogging for a while, I think.
This Mexican restaurant has decided to build their entire thing around AI generated portraits of Frida Kahlo
Now in the brief week near summer solstice, here in Seattle we're northerly enough to get sun coming directly through our north-facing windows in both the morning and evening. Pretty neat!
Peak early 2000s memory surfacing after the song “Who Am I?” by Peace Orchestra popped up in a playlist: obsessively rewatching a DVD copy of the Animatrix given to me by my cousin (whose taste in media far outstripped mine), except skippi…
Episode 100+ of mixing up “max” and “min” and so doing the opposite of what I logically want. Lower bound => use max and upper bound => use min. Confusing!!!
Will be giving a short lightning talk at the Software Should Work conference in Columbia, Missouri on July 16th! The topic: what sort of concurrency properties can you check using the Rust and Go language tooling these days?
#Rust #Golang
Gonna take a break from open source dev work. Back to standalone experiments & blogging for a while, I think.
This Mexican restaurant has decided to build their entire thing around AI generated portraits of Frida Kahlo
Now in the brief week near summer solstice, here in Seattle we're northerly enough to get sun coming directly through our north-facing windows in both the morning and evening. Pretty neat!
Peak early 2000s memory surfacing after the song “Who Am I?” by Peace Orchestra popped up in a playlist: obsessively rewatching a DVD copy of the Animatrix given to me by my cousin (whose taste in media far outstripped mine), except skippi…
Episode 100+ of mixing up “max” and “min” and so doing the opposite of what I logically want. Lower bound => use max and upper bound => use min. Confusing!!!
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
discuss.systems
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On Mastodon since
Feb 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
84/100
Excellent
Credibility score
95%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 95% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
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About
TLA⁺ core developer. Love formal methods & distributed systems!
Living in Seattle, WA, USA. Non-technical hobbies include BJJ & birdwatching.
Other random facts: vim user, nix/arch dual-booter, dual Canadian/US citizen, loose-leaf tea drinker, cyclist, living kidney donor, vegetarian, ecosocialist dreaming of a 2000 watt society! he/him
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