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Followers
618
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: First homemade antenna for #Lora and #Meshcore. Not too bad for · 34 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.39 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.9×
Follows 658 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
First homemade antenna for #Lora and #Meshcore. Not too bad for 2h in the kitchen.
Does your company still organize offsites with planned activities and icebreakers? I’m still surprised to see them doing this, especially sports activities where you’re forced to mingle with other people. I don’t see many people enjoying i…
Helm 3 is approaching end-of-life. A final, limited Helm 3 feature release will be September 9th, 2026, with security patches continuing to be provided through February 2027.
https://helm.sh/blog/helm-v3-end-of-life
#kubernetes
And this is a great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWpjDM2CJXI
Listening The Bike Shed #500 and hearing @sgrif brings back lots of good memories.
"Scalability of pg stat statements" #Postgresql https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Scalability_of_pg_stat_statements
Good idea for pg_repack "Repack all tables smallest to largest" #postgresql https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack/pull/410
"Add last_executed timestamp to pg_stat_statements"
"tools like pgwatch that poll pg_stat_statements regularly. Currently, these tools must fetch and store statistics for all statements, even those that haven't executed recently."
#postgr…
Is there a tool to track Github issue activity (comments, 👍 reactions, external issues referencing the initial issue)? Comments are good, but I think seeing an increase in reactions or issues referencing it would be helpful too.
Prioritizi…
♻️ Sometimes I find it hard to revisit earlier team ideas. It can feel like recycling old solutions, like adding calendar slots for PR reviews, increasing the number of daily meetings, or introducing more process before building a PoC.
We …
"Parallelization of C-extension Gem Builds" https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/12/26/whats-new-rubygems-bundler4.html
https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html
Good idea for pg_repack "Repack all tables smallest to largest" #postgresql https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack/pull/410
"Add last_executed timestamp to pg_stat_statements"
"tools like pgwatch that poll pg_stat_statements regularly. Currently, these tools must fetch and store statistics for all statements, even those that haven't executed recently."
#postgr…
Is there a tool to track Github issue activity (comments, 👍 reactions, external issues referencing the initial issue)? Comments are good, but I think seeing an increase in reactions or issues referencing it would be helpful too.
Prioritizi…
♻️ Sometimes I find it hard to revisit earlier team ideas. It can feel like recycling old solutions, like adding calendar slots for PR reviews, increasing the number of daily meetings, or introducing more process before building a PoC.
We …
"Parallelization of C-extension Gem Builds" https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/12/26/whats-new-rubygems-bundler4.html
https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/4.0.html
🐘 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
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 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× 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 (~0.8% 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
Dev backend. Previously RSpec core team. #Ruby #PostgreSQL #Go. Vim fan. | he / him 🏴
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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