Mike Dalessio✓

Mastodon @flavorjones@ruby.social

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Followers

1.5K

Account age

3 yrs

🧰 Free analysis for Mike Dalessio

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.7%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. https://gith · 44 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.44 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.6×

Follows 927 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm ★ 44

RE: https://ruby.social/@flavorjones/116822370245906075 I know it's hard right now to tell when there is a real human behind a pull request, but I am a living reminder that if you respond to potential future contributors with feedback and … ★ 5 It was 20 years ago today that I emailed @tenderlove my first Ruby open-source contribution, for client-side cert support in Mechanize. His enthusiasm and generosity on this occasion (and countless others!) was incredibly encouraging and I… ★ 7 I had so much fun speaking with the Once a Maintainer folks about being an open source maintainer and some of the security work that's involved. I hope you give it a read and enjoy! ❤️ https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintain… ★ 7 If anybody knows who the PM is at GitHub for private vulnerability reporting on projects, I'd love an intro. I've been leaning in hard and have a few ideas for small changes that will have outsized impact in making the system more usable a… ★ 5 It's only five weeks away! Are you going to be there? I'm talking, of course, about Brighton Ruby. I'm really excited to hang out with Rubyists near the ocean. Also, pubs. https://brightonruby.com/ ★ 5 I'm excited for this year's Brighton Ruby lineup! It'll be my first trip to Brighton. RUBYISTS ASSEMMMMBLE https://brightonruby.com/ ★ 4 So, Jesse rescued some old GORUCO videos from 2010 and 2011 that I just posted up on rubyevents.org, including this killer talk from @sandimetz: https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/less-the-path-to-better-design Enjoy the old school vibes! ★ 20 I'm excited that Rails 8.2 is going to have to_markdown for Action Text content. Given Markdown is the lingua franca for LLMs, this is going to make it dead easy to add markdown support to your Rails app API. https://github.com/rails/rails… ★ 5 Who needs Pingdom? Upright is open-source, more featureful, integrates into your existing OTel infrastructure, and was made with love by my teammate @lewis https://dev.37signals.com/introducing-upright/ ★ 8 If you're interested in multi-tenancy in Rails apps, I talked a bit about my recent work on Active Record Tenanted here: https://dev.37signals.com/rails-multi-tenancy/ ★ 10 "See what you made me do?" is what bullies and abusers say to try to make people compliant in the future. Fuck this complete asshole. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/first-thing-i-no-longer-feel-an-obligation-to-think-purel… ★ 4

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

ruby.social

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✅ 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 10 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.4× 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 (~0.7% 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.

💚 Brand affinity

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Brands Mike Dalessio's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

Shopify

The Guardian

About

Mostly posts about gummi bears, space probes, and Ruby. OSS contributor, maintaining Nokogiri, SQLite3, Rails::Html::Sanitizer, Mechanize, and more in the Ruby ecosystem. Working at 37signals. Former Shopify, VMware, Pivotal, Bloomberg, various startups.