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Account age
4 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
12
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: There are tons of books about using text editors and text-proces · 26 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
14×
Follows 98 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Every impl of quasiquote and friends would have been been much cleaner with quasiquote and friends.
Ha! My Lithp project from 2008 made a brief blip on the HN front page earlier today. https://fogus.me/fun/lithp/
The next big trend in blogging will be posts of the "I wrote this thing without using AI" kind.
RE: https://functional.cafe/@fogus/116720892101844475
Here are some promising leads:
Object-Oriented Programming by Hanspeter Mössenböck (Oberon-2)
Software Components with Ada: Structures, Tools, and Subsystems by Grady Booch (Ada)
Design…
Automata Studies, edited by Claude Shannon and John McCarthy has a helluva table of contents!
I'm going to save my company some money today by using my human brain!
I've followed the hobby OS and language communities for decades and LLMs have produced a boon for poorly thought-out designs! It used to take months or years for bad designs to grow from an addled brain to an executable tire-fire.
LLMs have allowed me to produce 10x the number of bridge plans that I would normally produce. I'm vibe-bridge-building. Coming soon to a fjord near you!
CLIPS was one of the few non-Lisp languages that I've ever used that provided an interactive REPL experience. "Interactive" is the key phrase --> https://blog.fogus.me/2022/11/10/the-one-about-lisp-interactivity.html
LLM Quislings are a thing.
Reasonable people: Scheme is great... I can pass args to functions and get a result!
Unreasonable people: Scheme sucks... I can't give my functions results and get the args back.
Automata Studies, edited by Claude Shannon and John McCarthy has a helluva table of contents!
I'm going to save my company some money today by using my human brain!
I've followed the hobby OS and language communities for decades and LLMs have produced a boon for poorly thought-out designs! It used to take months or years for bad designs to grow from an addled brain to an executable tire-fire.
LLMs have allowed me to produce 10x the number of bridge plans that I would normally produce. I'm vibe-bridge-building. Coming soon to a fjord near you!
CLIPS was one of the few non-Lisp languages that I've ever used that provided an interactive REPL experience. "Interactive" is the key phrase --> https://blog.fogus.me/2022/11/10/the-one-about-lisp-interactivity.html
LLM Quislings are a thing.
Reasonable people: Scheme is great... I can pass args to functions and get a result!
Unreasonable people: Scheme sucks... I can't give my functions results and get the args back.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
functional.cafe
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On Mastodon since
Apr 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 12 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.5× 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 (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
clojure core. bibliophile. flâneur.
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