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Jesse Skinner

Jesse Skinner

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Followers
1.9K
Account age
7 yrs
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📊 Post engagement

4
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
May 2019
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to · 14 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
1.9 / 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 1.2K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs. Your ability to accumulate skills and experience will prevent you from "falling behind" all those who are now spending their days writing markdown and managing slop PRs. #… ★ 14
To make nodejs date-related tests work in multiple time zones, here's a little trick (hack?) You can set process.env.TZ to set a specific timezone. eg. const tz = process.env.TZ beforeEach(() => { process.env.TZ = 'America/New York' }) a… ★ 3 Intelligence (artificial or real) isn't in the words themselves but in the knowledge and meaning and insight and wisdom that the words symbolize. Words are the finger pointing at the moon. The hype around LLMs conflates the two, thinks tha… ★ 1 "Dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than traditionally conceive." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376640179_Dreams_as… Watching and reading content clearly written by AI is so draining, I wish I could just see the prompt because it would contain all the meaning and message i need. Whether it's "generate a script for a tiktok video about the smell of petric… ★ 5 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🎆 ★ 3 Was listening to some Alan Watts on YouTube. He kept saying "Not A. Not B. C." and "It isn't A, it's B." that is so typical of LLMs. So I was thinking I better adjust my AI detection because obviously this recording from the 60s isn't AI. … ★ 11 I've been trying to minimize my use of LLMs, but as a software engineer there are some tasks that are way easier, so it's hard to cut out completely. So I've started paying for Ollama so I can use open source models (glm5.2, kimi-k2.7) in … ★ 1 I wonder if one day "If you could pass the salt, that would be great." will be shortened to "Pass the salt would be great." and eventually "Begreat pass the salt." or something, the same way that saying "please" comes from "if it pleases y… ★ 1 RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116757444961685446 Wow, a cacheable POST. Or is it a GET with form data? Makes total sense. ★ 3 The best and worst thing about LLMs is that they take all the text in the world and compress it down to a few gigabytes of data. It's the best thing because it's like magic. It's the worst thing because it has a HUGE margin of error in its… ★ 4 Oh wow, my recent blog post was discussed on a podcast..! That's definitely a first for me. Very weird and cool. https://youtu.be/aDeeCXTihzE?si=rHcd3Ps9OKP6pudx&t=1493 ★ 2

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
toot.cafe
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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
May 2019
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2019 — 7 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.9× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

52/100
Fair Credibility score
76%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (7+ years old).

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

About

I'm a software engineer, coding since the '80s and building web apps since 2001. I offer fixed quotes with flexible scope. I still help clients that emailed me decades ago. I live in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with my German wife and our two sons. I enjoy reading, writing, travelling, playing zelda, minecraft, and chess. I try to live according to daoist & buddhist principles. My interests include decluttering, neurodivergence, burnout, climate, politics, economics, linux & svelte.

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