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79
Account age
0 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
3.8%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2026
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: We have a whiteboard that's old enough that WIndex only moves th · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.7 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 105 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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My dog humbly requests that the next product in this series be based on popcorn.
https://www.esun3d.com/pla-coffee-product/
With the passing of the glory days of StackOverflow, a learning strategy I've used for years has become less effective.
The theory is that highly-rated questions in a category reflect the aspects of a thing that people have the most troub…
A good, "we used to know this, then forgot it, and are now re-inventing it but with different [ed: adversarial] incentives" presentation on alerts and notifications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ira28fgSF7M
Re-sorted a bunch of cables to consign half to e-waste. Now have ziplock bags with labels "USB A", "USB micro", "USB mini", and "USB WTF?!?"
That last bag scares me. In boxes here somewhere there are probably oddball devices that need one …
The Tyranny of Choice can be a sneaky bastard. I try to avoid it, but caught myself watching another review of mechanical keyboards, and did some back-of-envelope math on how much time I've sunk into deciding on what to buy. It's a trap, a…
World of Wonders: Water Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hsN9VIgEY
Five acre fire earlier tonight near the Stanford dish. Out now, but the downwind smoke turned the sunset here a nice chemical orange.
First time this season I've reached for https://map.purpleair.com/map/ Feels like it won't be the last.
The TARDIS materializes in a dusty Western saloon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqeMH9SEYtA
2B or not 2B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLc8lqUaezE
(It's Dad Joke night here)
Met a retired NASA Engineer and amateur luthier who is making a Telecaster body using a retired wooden blade from the big NASA Ames wind tunnel. Amazingly cool. It's going to be a struggle to keep that from raising the bar on any of my re…
Brain picked 2 AM to start wondering how to do division/multiplication with Roman Numerals. Thanks, brain. Tonight you get the Melatonin.
TIL, after coffee, that the Romans used other methods, including the 'Roman Abacus', which mixed deci…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
Apr 2026
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2026.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
95%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 95% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Retired Principal Developer. Worst purple-teamer in the room. SOC2 veteran.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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