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Followers
705
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: It’s been nearly eight months and I still have a not quite 100% · 14 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
5.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 6 text · 6 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.7×
Follows 262 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
It’s been nearly eight months and I still have a not quite 100% working teleprinter disassembled on the bench.
Is this what it’s like to own a VW?
More univocalic lipograms FTW
dBook/dt > 0
The Bridge sings in the wind!
I hear it over two miles away,
366 Hz through vortex shedding slats.
City Lights!
Pine-scented Time Away from Computers
But I’ve also learned the word tsundoku along the way.
Summer reading stack moved into infeasible territory.
"Maybe. Who cares?” said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. “Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do …
I also ran John Kemeny's FTBALL, which Annette Vee writes about in a beautiful code studies piece (https://doi.org/10.63744/qmzp7nk3bp54). What is interesting about running this on a teletype, though, is how the visiting team's plays prin…
In order to test the recreated version on the Teletype Model 33, I conjured (aka vibed) a Dartmouth BASIC Version 4 interpreter that is a fairly faithful reproduction of the behavior described in the 1968 DTSS BASIC user manual. The code i…
A later version of LOVE is attributed to David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, which renders the output in a noticeably different, column-locked format. I haven't found Spahn's original, but I recreated what it might have looked like b…
dBook/dt > 0
The Bridge sings in the wind!
I hear it over two miles away,
366 Hz through vortex shedding slats.
City Lights!
Pine-scented Time Away from Computers
But I’ve also learned the word tsundoku along the way.
Summer reading stack moved into infeasible territory.
"Maybe. Who cares?” said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. “Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do …
I also ran John Kemeny's FTBALL, which Annette Vee writes about in a beautiful code studies piece (https://doi.org/10.63744/qmzp7nk3bp54). What is interesting about running this on a teletype, though, is how the visiting team's plays prin…
In order to test the recreated version on the Teletype Model 33, I conjured (aka vibed) a Dartmouth BASIC Version 4 interpreter that is a fairly faithful reproduction of the behavior described in the 1968 DTSS BASIC user manual. The code i…
A later version of LOVE is attributed to David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, which renders the output in a noticeably different, column-locked format. I haven't found Spahn's original, but I recreated what it might have looked like b…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
post.lurk.org
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
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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 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.4× 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 (~0.6% 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
Restoring and running old tech with modern mashups. TTYs + micros + printers = creative coding, conservation, art, hacking, history
Also: professor, engineer, dad, husband, traveler, hiker, bike+train commuter, listener, reader, thought kneader
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