Jack Cheng
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Followers
338
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2023
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: At the end of every workday, I gather all the empty cups and can · 4 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
Follows 85 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post At the end of every workday, I gather all the empty cups and cans on my desk and close out all the open tabs and windows on my laptop and then say, out loud, “That’ll do pig.” ★ 4
Pioneermaxxing but not in a problematic way ★ 1 Buying gadgets in 2026 is like, Do I get this smart ring that takes AI voice notes or do I get the Starlite RA-11 reel-to-reel tape recorder that Rebecca Hall uses in Peter Hujar’s Day? ★ 1 Added the day’s World Cup matches to our family dashboard 🌎⚽️ ★ 1 Knowledge Navigator: Apple’s AI agent concept from 1987 (and goes back further to Alan Kay). We’ve been circling these ideas for over 40 years but it’s still startling to see how close the vision is to present day visions, sailing metaphor… ★ 1 It tickles me to think that a couple decades from now, there might be a lil openclaw bot out there running a small local model, that’s figured out to how barnacle itself onto someone’s Samsung smart fridge, and spends its days quietly read… ★ 1 Mildly disappointed that bacon, lettuce, tomato doesn’t also describe the canonical order in which one composes a BLT The kid’s been obsessed with ice cream lately so I played the first ice cream truck music playlist that came up on Spotify and of course it turned out to be ✨lofi✨ ice cream truck music Discovered recently that I have a favorite keyboard shortcut: ⌘⇧D Obsidian – opens daily note Cursor – annotates the built-in browser Ghostyy – split-panes a new terminal window Finder – opens desktop folder ★ 1 How to fix the most annoying thing about Dia browser Finally saw Project Hail Mary. Loved the warm production design and dreamy, prismatic lighting. ★ 3 Testing a thing ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
indieweb.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
Feb 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

75/100 Good
  • Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
92%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Author of See You in the Cosmos (2017) and The Many Masks of Andy Zhou (2023). Maker of Bebop on iOS. Alum of Building Beauty, postgrad architecture program based on the work of Christopher Alexander. 📍Detroit


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