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Followers
2.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Dave Copeland :ruby:
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Everything you need to know about how productive LLM-based codin · 20 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.9 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
9.8×
Follows 220 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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RE: https://ruby.social/@james/117009256214839947
My goals with https://brutrb.com were to make something as conceptually simple as Rails. Work is still in progress. I find Hanami extremely complicated, but it's probably the most mature Ra…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/116987188429200272
Grades from left to right:
A-, B-, F-, F, C, C
If Apple hired people with hands, imagine how awesome their remotes could be.
RE: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/116977368234395267
Relatable
Cool, the two biggest existential threats to any startup are now merging.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/
Looks like Firefox on iOS now obscures the app while app switching, which means that it feels incredible slow. I can't figure out how to turn this off (or why it's even on)
RE: https://front-end.social/@fox/116899694179909261
Not all the proposed terms are practically usable, but some good advice on speaking accurately about these systems. The graf on hallucinations is easy to paste at your friends who don’t …
Ah yes, the three genders.
I don't get why spam filters don’t have "if Macafee is in the email it is spam"
* useful formatter - I have no idea what this is saying. I guess use Fuubar?
And that's it! Almost entirely bad advice, and I guarantee you that a codebase that doesn't follow these guidelines will garner less complaints from the RSpec He…
* faster tests - Do zeus/spin/spork even work? My experience with stuff like this is you waste all your saved time because something sat in memory when it shouldn't and you are testing old code.
* Stubbing HTTP requests - i.e. use Webmock…
* shared examples (to DRY your test suite up) - HARD PASS, do not do this ever. Repetition in tests is fine, especially given how convoluted shared examples are. never use them.
* test what you see - unclear what is meant here. Don't test…
Ah yes, the three genders.
I don't get why spam filters don’t have "if Macafee is in the email it is spam"
* useful formatter - I have no idea what this is saying. I guess use Fuubar?
And that's it! Almost entirely bad advice, and I guarantee you that a codebase that doesn't follow these guidelines will garner less complaints from the RSpec He…
* faster tests - Do zeus/spin/spork even work? My experience with stuff like this is you waste all your saved time because something sat in memory when it shouldn't and you are testing old code.
* Stubbing HTTP requests - i.e. use Webmock…
* shared examples (to DRY your test suite up) - HARD PASS, do not do this ever. Repetition in tests is fine, especially given how convoluted shared examples are. never use them.
* test what you see - unclear what is meant here. Don't test…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.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
Oct 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 2.9× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Author of BrutRB, our last, best hope for Rubykind. Former CTO @ Mood Health. Former Stitch Fix, LivingSocial. Posts about Ruby, Tech, Maybe Cats
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