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918
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Benjamin Eberlei
📊 Post engagement
6
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Spontaneous one day trip to Brussels for #fosdem #fosdem2026 to · 21 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.45 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
11×
Follows 83 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Spontaneous one day trip to Brussels for #fosdem #fosdem2026 to meet #PHP community, and also releasing a small part of the herd. Who is there?
I recorded a new video with two clever pattern for updating last access timestamps for database records that avoid contention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxChblV3OdM
This video has new microphone and adjusted camera angle setup, I ign…
Can anyone recommend a european WPengine alternative? Meaning Wordpress hosting with Composer via WPackagist support? Auto security fixes?
Several large projects leaving GitHub because of its reliability issues lately and their focus on pushing AI (Zig, Ghosty, ...)
Weirdly for me, its still working really well for our closed source projects @Tideways and given our work is mo…
This is one use-case, very early beta: Call tideways run with a script from Claude or Codex or any other local/remote agent.
We are already working to go much further, access to all high and low level data from Tideways through the CLI ov…
In my 10+ years working on a PHP Profiler, one of the biggest obstacles to adoption has been the steep learning curve reading and understanding profiling data for developers. Combining Tideways data with AI can assist you with explaination…
Do i misremember that there was a package that simplified working with ReflectionType instances?
Weird would be ending a request early in the middlewares, they need to set the $response on context and then call yield anyways.
Ok, writing about stuff and putting them out there helps with ideas, if I introduce a context that references the response, then i can get rid of the double yield, for more clarity.
https://gist.github.com/beberlei/5f36deb1303b7080eff8e2b…
What if we could run a list of middlewares without the stack trace becoming deeper than 1?
After talking about crazy PHP things with @sebastian @nielsdos and @Girgias this mad idea came to me on the train back from #fosdem
Took 3 att…
I understand blocking AI crawlers from your personal sites, but its usually to aggressive. Now 50% of the time that I post a link into Slack, it does not expand because Slack Bot crawling is forbidden by robots.txt. - Same is true for a bu…
The N+1 query bottleneck is so common, I would bet everyone has it in their #PHP code to some degree. I cover this topic in my videos for the first time, with a simple PDO introduction and a more complex #Shopware plugin example.
https://w…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
phpc.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× 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 (~0.7% 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
Founder and performance detective at https://tideways.com - hosting the Undercover ElePHPant podcast (https://undercover-elephpant.com). Open-Source contributor to Doctrine and PHP-SRC.
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