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Followers
1.8K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Tony Finch
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: ugh trying not to flame some shitty disjointed punchy writing, w · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
61.1 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 2.2K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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from my link log —
First CHERIoT silicon!
https://cheriot.org/silicon/2026/03/04/cheriot-first-silicon.html
saved 2026-07-29 https://dotat.at/:/IISQW.html
from my link log —
Are aerospike engines better than traditional rocket engines?
https://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/
saved 2019-10-19 https://dotat.at/:/LE222.html
from my link log —
The ARM Morello board: porting experimental capability extensions from CHERI-MIPS.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri-morello.html
saved 2020-07-01 https://dotat.at/:/45E4H.html
from my link log —
Coloring for colorblindness.
https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/
saved 2023-01-30 https://dotat.at/:/7LISV.html
from my link log —
A fast path for decoding fixed-length lists in Parquet.
https://www.morling.dev/blog/fast-path-for-fixed-length-lists-in-parquet/
saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/7E6BY.html
from my link log —
Existential types on a leash in Haskell.
https://cdfa.github.io/existentials-on-a-leash/
saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/A978A.html
i guess i could have thought of the old unix crdelay feature which only went up to 3, which suggests how much slower cr was than bs
(but i still wonder how much the speed was determined by serial baud rate and how much by mechanical limits…
on a teletype (or similar printing mechanism)
if you are printing a like with lots of overstrike (eg an underlined heading)
is it faster to print the line, carriage return, print the overstrike; or to use short backspace-overstrike sequenc…
from my link log —
Documentation and analysis of the Linux random number generator.
https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/LinuxRNG/LinuxRNG_EN_V5_9.html
saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/3YJ5L.html
from my link log —
The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem.
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/27/the-mean-means-nothing
saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/W5XPJ.html
from my link log —
Query cycles: A Rust compiler murder mystery.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/query-cycles-a-compiler-murder-mystery/
saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/XHWC2.html
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mendeddrum.org
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
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 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 61.1× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
38/100
Low
Credibility score
56%
Low
Real audience
High
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 56% real, active audience · High fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Follows 2.2K accounts — more than its own followers — a common follow-for-follow / bot pattern.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
unix / internet / open source software bodger
• 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧 • he/they • 🚴 • 🦀 • 💉😷 • 🏳️⚧️ • 🇺🇦 • 🇵🇸 • ✊🏿 • tfr
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