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Followers
553
Account age
3 yrs
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🎁 Free analysisfor Colin Watson
Known for
📊 Post engagement
6
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law. · 39 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.74 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3×
Follows 182 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
I have rarely seen a more striking example of Betteridge's law.
Free software activity in July 2026
More preparations for OpenSSH GSS-API split; the usual round of Python packaging work.
Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-07.html
Watching (or in my case rewatching) #Buffy with one of my kids. _Becoming_ still holds up remarkably well despite the dodgy 1990s effects.
Some lovely comic moments amid the rather obvious tragedy. Spike and Joyce sitting awkwardly in th…
I am really fucking bored of having gallstones. #ow
Free software activity in June 2026
OpenSSL 4.0, pytest 9.1, and Python 3.14 as default.
Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-06.html
Ooh, after leaving windows open for several hours my bedroom might actually be at an inhabitable temperature. Maybe I'll sleep tonight.
(It's hard to leave my bedroom windows open overnight because we face onto a main road: only a single…
Free software activity in May 2026
OpenSSH security and IPQoS backports; the usual Python packaging work.
Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-05.html
Free software activity in April 2026
groff, OpenSSH, and parted updates; helped with dput-ng data loss fix.
Blog post: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-04.html
But the results obviously won't be stable across PostgreSQL versions. I don't mind needing to make the odd tweak, but I'd like to understand the scale of changes that we'd be signing up for over time. Are there any good-quality Django ap…
While you can get big improvements here with relatively small changes, it's also easy to introduce problems like this, so ideally I'd have regression tests. Django has QuerySet.explain, so if I set things up right I could assert things ab…
I might have some #Django friends who have experience with this sort of thing.
I spent a good chunk of today doing #PostgreSQL query optimization: not indexes, but rather "if this query had a different but semantically-equivalent structur…
This is, like, 4000x more petrolhead than my usual scene. But it's quite a fun weekend out #DoningtonPark
This is, like, 4000x more petrolhead than my usual scene. But it's quite a fun weekend out #DoningtonPark
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.ie
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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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% 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
Irish geek. Happily married, father of four, polyamorous, left-wing, Reform Jew by choice.
Debian and Ubuntu developer and freelancer, mainly working for Freexian. Formerly at Canonical on launchpad.net.
Tá mé ag foghlaim na Gaeilge. אני לומד עברית.
Previously @cjwatson.
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