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Followers
645
Account age
7 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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Known for
7 views
Shoutout to @marcoroth for Herb. Just fixed a bunch of small typos in our HTML that it found.
Browsers are pretty good at fixing these issues automatically, but I'd sure rather be sending correct HTML instead.
4 views
FerrumPDF now adds custom renderers to Rails for a much cleaner integration.
You now call "render" just like you would for JSON or HTML and out pops a PDF of the page.
GoRails.com lesson on this soon!
1 views
May have went a bit off the Rails™ in my Rails World talk this year...
1 views
Trix has been extracted to a new gem: action_text-trix. This is handy because you can update the JS and CSS independently from Rails now
📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/bundler-belongs-to-the-ruby-co · 41 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.31 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 3 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
9.8×
Follows 66 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Had the pleasure of talking to @jdx on Remote Ruby about Mise, precompiled Ruby, and all his other projects.
Give it a listen here: https://www.remoteruby.com/2260490/episodes/18785026-jeff-dickey-on-mise-precompiled-rubies-and-much-more
@Schneems hope you didn't get caught in the layoffs?
Shoutout to @marcoroth for Herb. Just fixed a bunch of small typos in our HTML that it found.
Browsers are pretty good at fixing these issues automatically, but I'd sure rather be sending correct HTML instead.
Updated https://JumpstartRails.com apps to Rails 8.1 beta and started running it in production. Everything is going smoothly so far!
Now that I'm home from #RailsWorld, just cut a new release of Noticed that adds support for Rails 8.1
https://github.com/excid3/noticed
May have went a bit off the Rails™ in my Rails World talk this year...
Just updated https://sellrepo.com with better instructions on how to create a GitHub token.
They're quite confusing and I couldn't find the right page on GitHub again, so now it's as simple as clicking a link in the setup instructions. 🎉
FerrumPDF now adds custom renderers to Rails for a much cleaner integration.
You now call "render" just like you would for JSON or HTML and out pops a PDF of the page.
GoRails.com lesson on this soon!
💎 Cut the 1.0 release for ferrum_pdf
Browser creation is now thread safe and I think we're settled on the interface, so figured it was time for 1.0!
https://github.com/excid3/ferrum_pdf/tree/v1.0.0
Cut a new release of FerrumPDF after all the help from Hack Spaces at #RailsConf.
We addressed all the issues and PRs and released it as v0.4!
https://github.com/excid3/ferrum_pdf
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Trix has been extracted to a new gem: action_text-trix. This is handy because you can update the JS and CSS independently from Rails now
Shoutout to @marcoroth for Herb. Just fixed a bunch of small typos in our HTML that it found.
Browsers are pretty good at fixing these issues automatically, but I'd sure rather be sending correct HTML instead.
Updated https://JumpstartRails.com apps to Rails 8.1 beta and started running it in production. Everything is going smoothly so far!
Now that I'm home from #RailsWorld, just cut a new release of Noticed that adds support for Rails 8.1
https://github.com/excid3/noticed
May have went a bit off the Rails™ in my Rails World talk this year...
Just updated https://sellrepo.com with better instructions on how to create a GitHub token.
They're quite confusing and I couldn't find the right page on GitHub again, so now it's as simple as clicking a link in the setup instructions. 🎉
FerrumPDF now adds custom renderers to Rails for a much cleaner integration.
You now call "render" just like you would for JSON or HTML and out pops a PDF of the page.
GoRails.com lesson on this soon!
💎 Cut the 1.0 release for ferrum_pdf
Browser creation is now thread safe and I think we're settled on the interface, so figured it was time for 1.0!
https://github.com/excid3/ferrum_pdf/tree/v1.0.0
Cut a new release of FerrumPDF after all the help from Hack Spaces at #RailsConf.
We addressed all the issues and PRs and released it as v0.4!
https://github.com/excid3/ferrum_pdf
▶
Trix has been extracted to a new gem: action_text-trix. This is handy because you can update the JS and CSS independently from Rails now
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (7+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
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RemoteRuby.com Podcast
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