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📊 Post engagement
17
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: More amazingness: this font renders bracketed text as working QR · 44 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
25×
Follows 160 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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So many of these reasons are why I keep a website. (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 15, 16, 25, 27, 28, 29, etc)
https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html
"I want a place of certainty. This place seems very uncertain."
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202607/a_place_of_certainty
20 years ago today, improbably: Dinner at the White House.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200607/sue_and_neds_excellent_adventure_part_1
On the back of a paper check, a warning meant to protect me. But because of a bad line break and spacing, the message is completely changed:
#typography
Virtual environments in #python should have been called project environments.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ancoghlan/116835738942808096
Excellent point! I've added this point to the blog post.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201608/lists_vs_tuples
When thinking about #Python lists vs tuples: lists can be varying lengths and the elements will be treated the same. Tuples are namedtuples without the names.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201608/lists_vs_tuples
I re-discovered yesterday that 22 years ago I wrote a blog post about E. B. White: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200206/e_b_white_on_walden . I love his essays.
If you haven't read "Death of a Pig" yet, you are in for a treat:
https://w…
A footgun in #Python: os.path.expandvars leaves non-existent variables unchanged instead of what the shell does (empty string):
>>> os.path.expandvars("$NO_SUCH_ENV/foo.bar")
'$NO_SUCH_ENV/foo.bar'
I hang out in the PyLadies Slack on the off chance I can help someone, and because PyLadies Boston is quite active there. It's frustrating to see clueless dudes stroll in and post "please hire me" in two channels at once. No attempt at co…
I enjoy maintaining a detailed changelog for coverage․py. I'm human, so sometimes I've used it to get snarky about things that annoy me (this was 11 years ago):
- HTML reports now begrudgingly use double-quotes rather than single quotes, b…
On the back of a paper check, a warning meant to protect me. But because of a bad line break and spacing, the message is completely changed:
#typography
Virtual environments in #python should have been called project environments.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ancoghlan/116835738942808096
Excellent point! I've added this point to the blog post.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201608/lists_vs_tuples
When thinking about #Python lists vs tuples: lists can be varying lengths and the elements will be treated the same. Tuples are namedtuples without the names.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201608/lists_vs_tuples
I re-discovered yesterday that 22 years ago I wrote a blog post about E. B. White: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200206/e_b_white_on_walden . I love his essays.
If you haven't read "Death of a Pig" yet, you are in for a treat:
https://w…
A footgun in #Python: os.path.expandvars leaves non-existent variables unchanged instead of what the shell does (empty string):
>>> os.path.expandvars("$NO_SUCH_ENV/foo.bar")
'$NO_SUCH_ENV/foo.bar'
I hang out in the PyLadies Slack on the off chance I can help someone, and because PyLadies Boston is quite active there. It's frustrating to see clueless dudes stroll in and post "please hire me" in two channels at once. No attempt at co…
I enjoy maintaining a detailed changelog for coverage․py. I'm human, so sometimes I've used it to get snarky about things that annoy me (this was 11 years ago):
- HTML reports now begrudgingly use double-quotes rather than single quotes, b…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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 17 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Python, software, coverage.py, typography, juggling, Boston, autism (dad). Laughing at the world doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. He/him.
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