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📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I hope to see many of you at #rubyconf in Chicago next week. Ch · 9 likes + reposts
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Posting cadence
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Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
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Just noting this blog post about the Gang of Four design patterns book for those of you who might be watching @pragdave at #rubyconf
https://noelrappin.com/2026/04/when-books-could-code-1-design-patterns/
Hello #rubyconf (and everybody else) — I’ve got a promo code for you!
40% off all Ruby or Rails titles at PragProg.com with the code “RUBYCONF2026”.
Including, say, Programming Ruby 4 (https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby6/programming-ruby-4-…
After spending way, way too much time over-editing it, part one of my next essay on programming books, on Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck is now up (and going to be emailed shortly). Audio version coming… soon:
https://noelrappi…
A few new things on the website:
I gave a talk at Chicago Ruby about what happened after I asked my local robot to review code with “what would Sandi Metz do?”. Not quite what I expected…
https://noelrappin.com/videos/inspector-gadget-adve…
A couple of new blog shaped things:
I've decided to start doing the book posts monthly (so shorter but more frequent), here's
January: https://noelrappin.com/2026/05/january-2026/
February: https://noelrappin.com/2026/06/february-2026/
Al…
The official Ruby documentation page at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ has gotten a much-needed update.
Thanks to @zenspider for taking charge on fixing this!
(I should note that it now directly references the Pickaxe, but it'…
Hey, last day to get all #pragmatic ebooks at 40% off
Go to https://pragprog.com with code "turkeysale2024”.
Find all our great #ruby books at https://pragprog.com/categories/ruby-and-rails/
The #pickaxe book is at https://pragprog.com/t…
In addition, I have a workshop called "No Static Types? No Problem", about taking advantage of what Ruby offers in object design to solve problems that other languages might solve with static typing.
Hey, the Pickaxe Book (print edition) is still on sale at Amazon (US) -- https://amzn.to/4gYbTSK -- I have no idea how long this will last...
I'm trying to expand the example in https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/08/what-about-static-typing-in-ruby/ a bit for my upcoming RubyConf workshop...
And I'm realizing that almost anything I do to add even a tiny bit of logic to it will cau…
For some mysterious reason, the #pickaxe book, Programming Ruby 3.3 is on sale at Amazon for about 20% off -- https://amzn.to/3U2dsVR. No idea how long this will last…
Hello #rubyconf (and everybody else) — I’ve got a promo code for you!
40% off all Ruby or Rails titles at PragProg.com with the code “RUBYCONF2026”.
Including, say, Programming Ruby 4 (https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby6/programming-ruby-4-…
After spending way, way too much time over-editing it, part one of my next essay on programming books, on Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck is now up (and going to be emailed shortly). Audio version coming… soon:
https://noelrappi…
A few new things on the website:
I gave a talk at Chicago Ruby about what happened after I asked my local robot to review code with “what would Sandi Metz do?”. Not quite what I expected…
https://noelrappin.com/videos/inspector-gadget-adve…
A couple of new blog shaped things:
I've decided to start doing the book posts monthly (so shorter but more frequent), here's
January: https://noelrappin.com/2026/05/january-2026/
February: https://noelrappin.com/2026/06/february-2026/
Al…
The official Ruby documentation page at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ has gotten a much-needed update.
Thanks to @zenspider for taking charge on fixing this!
(I should note that it now directly references the Pickaxe, but it'…
Hey, last day to get all #pragmatic ebooks at 40% off
Go to https://pragprog.com with code "turkeysale2024”.
Find all our great #ruby books at https://pragprog.com/categories/ruby-and-rails/
The #pickaxe book is at https://pragprog.com/t…
In addition, I have a workshop called "No Static Types? No Problem", about taking advantage of what Ruby offers in object design to solve problems that other languages might solve with static typing.
Hey, the Pickaxe Book (print edition) is still on sale at Amazon (US) -- https://amzn.to/4gYbTSK -- I have no idea how long this will last...
I'm trying to expand the example in https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/08/what-about-static-typing-in-ruby/ a bit for my upcoming RubyConf workshop...
And I'm realizing that almost anything I do to add even a tiny bit of logic to it will cau…
For some mysterious reason, the #pickaxe book, Programming Ruby 3.3 is on sale at Amazon for about 20% off -- https://amzn.to/3U2dsVR. No idea how long this will last…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
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✅ Link-verified
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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 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× 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
Staff Engineer at Chime, and the co-author of Programming Ruby and the author of Modern Front End Development for Rails.
Also on Bluesky as @noelrappin.com and Threads as noelrap
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