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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
3.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The collection of original design patterns Unfortunately these · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.49 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 29 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Quote of the day: "In the world of the AI, your freedom is in your unpredictability"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QnGXDfi_itI
After three months of vibe coding, I reached a point where the abstraction had become so tangled that everything became difficult. A complete refactoring was necessary, prompt by prompt, with greater control. But it was worth it. A fresh s…
New published project:
Kubernetes Opertor to expose K8s services on Tailscale/Headscale network as virtual hosts
https://github.com/elek/t7e
Modularity is the agility of the code.
My new favorite AI tool is a clawdbot like (custom baked) robot, which manages my patch queue (rebase, triage un-related build failures, address trivial comments).
Costs about ~150 $ last month (This is the API list price, using older mod…
QOTD: "Principles differ from dogmas in that there are no penalties for error, but only learning from error."
(in: Bill Mollison, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual)
QOTD: "People who have worked with me for a while might accuse me of suffering from not-invented-here syndrome. I prefer to call it “having higher standards.”
Why subject yourself to endless frustration that mediocre tools inflict on you,…
"If You can’t measure it, You can’t manage it"
I think it was originally said about people management, not about managing software processes.
Still I would rather do it for software.
It's so satisfying to get better understanding with new …
QOTD: "I’m hearing a lot of feedback that if you have well-modularized code, it actually makes it easy for the agents to work with. We’re already getting lots of reinforcement saying that actually focusing on good tests helps the agents as…
The Anthropic paradox: power of Claude Code tool vs. so primitive claude.ai features (usage stats from API? more advanced stats for organization?)
Just updated Claude.md:
```
## Commit message rules
Each commit message must have an emoji at the beginning.
```
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"If You can’t measure it, You can’t manage it"
I think it was originally said about people management, not about managing software processes.
Still I would rather do it for software.
It's so satisfying to get better understanding with new …
QOTD: "I’m hearing a lot of feedback that if you have well-modularized code, it actually makes it easy for the agents to work with. We’re already getting lots of reinforcement saying that actually focusing on good tests helps the agents as…
The Anthropic paradox: power of Claude Code tool vs. so primitive claude.ai features (usage stats from API? more advanced stats for organization?)
Just updated Claude.md:
```
## Commit message rules
Each commit message must have an emoji at the beginning.
```
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🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
76/100
Good
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~3.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Writing code, solving problems, helping others.
Principal Engineer at Storj Labs.
More: https://github.com/elek
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