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Account age
7 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Larry Garfield
Known for
📊 Post engagement
11
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Also this. #ai #llm · 67 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
10.4 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
27×
Follows 87 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Also this.
#ai #llm
I like people I can vibe with. Not machines to vibe at.
#Programming #AI #LLM
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116998514444818066
Voting MAGAt (which is the same as Republican now) is actvitely voting to kill people and destroy the planet and end human civilization.
Treat MAGAts accordingly.
#uspol #Trump #fasci…
Be sure to exclude your repositories from HuggingFace here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack
#AI #LLM #GrandTheftAutocomplete
Your regular reminder to ensure your posts are flagged for the right language!
If you don't mark the language correctly, translation features don't work. Also, I keep getting non-English messages in my feed that I don't understand in the …
I hate dealing with file permissions. *HATE*.
#Programming #PHP
Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functionally-in-php
Code that was working and passing all tests, untouched for weeks, now failing tests on the exact same computer, exact same checkout, exact same commit.
This is the bane of my existence. And no, Grand Theft Autocomplete will not fix this. …
The Vest is dead. Long Live The Vest.
I really wish the tech Bros had read "Please create the Relaxation Nexus" instead of "Please don't create the Torment Nexus."
AI and being "left behind"
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/ai-and-being-left-behind
#ai #llm
I Don’t Care if A.I. is So Good We Can’t Tell it’s Not Human. That’s Not The Point.
https://serena.nz/writing/the-quality-is-not-the-point/
Absolutely all of this.
#ai #llm #slop
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
phpc.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
Aug 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 7 years ago.
👁️Averages 11 views per post.
📤Posts about 10.4× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (7+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Anything worth doing well is worth teaching others to do well.
Author of Thinking Functionally in PHP, now on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/thinking-functionally-in-php
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