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Account age
3 yrs
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Known for
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Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.
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Today is Raffa’s final day after nearly sixteen years. He’s been in heart failure for a few weeks, and reached the point where we’d be keeping him around for us and not for him.
Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply profound. Lots of tears at my place today.
6 views
The “mediative preparation” (of lanyards and hole punching) has begun.
See you on the 19th.
5 views
Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq
📊 Post engagement
9
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I made some lovely Ruby loving foxes on a t-shirt in tribute to · 15 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.23 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
14×
Follows 74 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Look at these lovely folks, wouldn't it be great to shake their hands in a week's time?
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/meet-thoughtbot-at-brighton-ruby-2026
Today is Raffa’s final day after nearly sixteen years. He’s been in heart failure for a few weeks, and reached the point where we’d be keeping him around for us and not for him.
Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply …
Designed a Brighton Ruby t-shirt for 2026!
https://rubytshirts.com/collections/brighton-ruby
Just to say we're up to a very healthly 2,400+ organisations on https://usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth for a bunch of those :-)
Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0
https://andycroll.com/ruby/find-the-last-matching-element-with-rfind/
Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth
https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/marco-roth-2025-rails-luminary
And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books
Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.
Some quick reflections on #RailsWorld from the Rails Foundation.
In short. I had a nice time. And I made some nineties-era web buttons on the way home.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/rails-world-2025/
Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq
The “mediative preparation” (of lanyards and hole punching) has begun.
See you on the 19th.
Today is Raffa’s final day after nearly sixteen years. He’s been in heart failure for a few weeks, and reached the point where we’d be keeping him around for us and not for him.
Having, loving & losing a dog feels both ridiculous & deeply …
Designed a Brighton Ruby t-shirt for 2026!
https://rubytshirts.com/collections/brighton-ruby
Just to say we're up to a very healthly 2,400+ organisations on https://usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth for a bunch of those :-)
Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0
https://andycroll.com/ruby/find-the-last-matching-element-with-rfind/
Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth
https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/marco-roth-2025-rails-luminary
And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books
Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.
Some quick reflections on #RailsWorld from the Rails Foundation.
In short. I had a nice time. And I made some nineties-era web buttons on the way home.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/rails-world-2025/
Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq
The “mediative preparation” (of lanyards and hole punching) has begun.
See you on the 19th.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Oct 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 9 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
He’s CTO at CoverageBook, Rubyist, Conference Organizer of Brighton Ruby, Author, Speaker, Bootstrapper & Twin Dad.
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