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Followers
621
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: We just had our first in-person meetup for Fireside, and today m · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.22 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.8×
Follows 222 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Been more heads down than I can ever remember, but now we can start peeling back the covers. Just used @flipper to enable Fireside customers to preview an overhauled interface.
And the best part is that thanks to Flipper they can switch ba…
In the post-Summer podcast season, Kris and John catch up on our first year's progress o Fireside and why everything takes longer than it does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAG4SKqkgvs
Couldn’t agree more. I would even say not to bother with polyfills except for research/exploration.
If a browser feature isn’t widely supported, ignore it or use progressive enhancement.
https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/115008277552336375
After acquiring Fireside, we've been heads down on performance, operations, and infrastructure. Very little of it has been directly customer-facing thus far, and that's been incredibly draining.
There's still plenty more of that type of wo…
Howdy, Ruby friends!
https://rubyfriends.app/profiles/HDTQ
To clarify, while a dependency's API's should be implicitly covered with other tests, there's something about a "simple" test that would break and point the finger at the culprit without any indirection.
"Upgrading this dependency may not …
Outside of avoiding dependencies, does anyone have any great strategies for managing dependency updates?
Have been wondering lately about the idea of adding "Canary" tests for each dependency that test the API's used from that dependency.
…
Frictionless Generators is available at 40% off via PragProg this week alongside some other great Ruby/Rails books.
https://techhub.social/@pragprog/114382071590290902
TIL: Some servers' `tzdata` only include canonical time zones, and `ActiveSupport::TimeZone` wraps `tzinfo` which uses the stystem `tzdata`. So linked/legacy time zones like "US/Eastern" will be considered invalid instead of being converte…
Had a really fun conversation about my meandering and relatively broad career path in consulting, SaaS, writing, and all that with @jeremysmithco and Jess on IndieRails.
Hadn't ever really thought about how it all connected until they aske…
Ruby 3.4 introduces some changes to the display of backtrace lines.
So if you've got any code that parses backtraces with regular expressions, you'll likely need to plan for some updates to the parsing logic when upgrading.
Ruby 3.4 introduces some changes to the display of backtrace lines.
So if you've got any code that parses backtraces with regular expressions, you'll likely need to plan for some updates to the parsing logic when upgrading.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
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 0.2× 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 (~0.5% 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.
About
Helping run FlipperCloud.io and Fireside.fm.
#Ruby, #Rails, #HTML, #CSS, and considered JavaScript on occasion. Basketball, mountains, outdoors, sit skiing, and paddle boarding.
Also a left below-knee amputee with no choice but to get out of bed on the right foot every day.
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