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Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: This morning I read "Respectful Open Source" by @andrewnez, and · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.45 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3×
Follows 185 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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It's been fun to build. Open source version coming soon. 👍
We've had a significant uptick in the number of pull requests needing to be reviewed at Honeybadger in the past few months, thanks to Claude. It's cool to be shipping more stuff, but it can also be a lot sometimes. So I had Claude build an…
Today I added a one-shot script to install the Honeybadger CLI and a systemd service to get host metrics (CPU, RAM, and disk) sent to Insights:
https://github.com/honeybadger-io/cli#install-script
Set it and forget it! :)
I’m tracking events in Breakwater with Honeybadger Insights, and I wanted to know how my periodic background jobs were doing, so I used the Honeybadger MCP server in Claude Code with this prompt:
Can you show me the last few job execution…
It’s fun to tell Claude, "ship it", and watch it commit, push, and open a PR.
I just did that for my latest blog post about using AI to build Breakwater, an app for managing licensing and access control for Docker container distribution:
…
I recently shipped something fun for Honeybadger: You can keep closer tabs on your cron jobs now, and even use them to get data into Insights for querying, charts, and alarms. :)
https://www.honeybadger.io/changelog/check-in-payloads/
RE: https://ruby.social/@jnunemaker/115969833163261471
Truth
❤️ 🤖 🙂
So now we have a shiny new runbook to follow if this happens again, and we have better monitoring in place to detect this kind of issue earlier.
Then I had Claude Code Web add CloudWatch alarms for our ECS services that have reached their maximum scale-out task count... one symptom of this problem is AWS scaling out the service to the max because we have scale-out rules tied to the…
The incident in question was an ever-increasing Kafka backlog on a single topic. It turns out the problem was a stuck ECS task. After I posted to Slack the steps I took to diagnose and resolve the issue, I copy-pasted that into ChatGPT and…
🐘 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
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 0.5× 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 (~1.3% 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
Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
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