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1.4K
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Sergey Bugaev
📊 Post engagement
11
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Sometimes I find it hard to be excited about anything in tech. N · 35 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.9 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
4.7×
Follows 289 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Spent hours digging into a failure to authenticate in a GSS/SASL/Flatpak/gssproxy/Kerberos/MSAD setup, only to trace it to an obvious-in-retrospect issue in libkrb5 context deserialization — which in practice is likely to only ever reprodu…
Every so often (most of the time?), you don't just want to get a value, you want a value and a way to know when it changes.
ReactiveX, KVO, GObject property notifications, inotify, SQLite update hooks are all examples of this principle
Misreading as "bcachefs"
> system(), the library call, a detail worth fixing because it is often confused with systemd, the unrelated service-management program
I'm going to be presenting today at #GUADEC about my experience migrating a large (huge) commercial application from win32 to :gtk: @GTK!
Tune in today at 3 PM UTC+2, track 2
Rewritten in 🦀 Rust (blazing fast! 🚀) with Claude and Copilot ✨ and published as Flatpak 📦
What a wonderful weekend to debug SELinux issues
Working on my #GUADEC 2026 talk about experience migrating a large enterprise application from win32 to #GTK 4. How do I fit several years of blood and sweat into a 40-minute talk 😅
I'll be giving the talk in exactly two weeks from today, …
Gmail is getting more obnoxious by the day
welp, just when you think you know C++...
I learned something new today: an implicit instantiation of a class-template specialization causes an implicit instantiation of declarations, but not definitions, of the members of the class, *even…
We take pride in doing things right. We design things cohesively, and if something is broken, we fix it at the right layer of the stack, we don't pile up hacks and workarounds on other layers.
We're not in any rush. If something takes year…
Misreading as "bcachefs"
> system(), the library call, a detail worth fixing because it is often confused with systemd, the unrelated service-management program
I'm going to be presenting today at #GUADEC about my experience migrating a large (huge) commercial application from win32 to :gtk: @GTK!
Tune in today at 3 PM UTC+2, track 2
Rewritten in 🦀 Rust (blazing fast! 🚀) with Claude and Copilot ✨ and published as Flatpak 📦
What a wonderful weekend to debug SELinux issues
Working on my #GUADEC 2026 talk about experience migrating a large enterprise application from win32 to #GTK 4. How do I fit several years of blood and sweat into a 40-minute talk 😅
I'll be giving the talk in exactly two weeks from today, …
Gmail is getting more obnoxious by the day
welp, just when you think you know C++...
I learned something new today: an implicit instantiation of a class-template specialization causes an implicit instantiation of declarations, but not definitions, of the members of the class, *even…
We take pride in doing things right. We design things cohesively, and if something is broken, we fix it at the right layer of the stack, we don't pile up hacks and workarounds on other layers.
We're not in any rush. If something takes year…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
floss.social
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✅ 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 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.9× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I hack on GTK / GNOME, peel, Vala, GNU Hurd / glibc, wl-clipboard, Darling, SerenityOS / Ladybird, Owl, etc.
I like Rust and dislike Docker.
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