Grant Gould

Mastodon @nonnihil@hachyderm.io

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Followers

156

Account age

3 yrs

Known for

10 views The cardinal at our feeder has one random feather sticking up and looks like a total doofus. Nobody tell her.

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

1.9%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The cardinal at our feeder has one random feather sticking up an · 10 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

4.5 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.6×

Follows 250 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The cardinal at our feeder has one random feather sticking up and looks like a total doofus. Nobody tell her. ★ 10

(I continue to believe the perceived and often real effectiveness of LLMs in the software industry is largely an indictment of the complexity of the ecosystem we have built; humans can no longer find their way out of the semantic nightmare… Watching heavy LLM users argue is hilarious. "My Claude told me that I should be using account 124" "No, my Fable says you should definitely be using account 169" "When my Claude uses your Fable's suggesting, AWS gives me this error: <AWS … ★ 2 The changed framing from "Ultraprocessed Foods" to "Hyperpalatable Foods" is wonderful to me because instead of grinding through a thousand pages of NOVA, EPIC, IFPRI, UNC, UP3, and Siga guidelines trying to make sense of one gaslighting e… It would have been good if Lindsey Graham's career had ended with contrition and restitution. But his career has in fact ended. It would be better had that career ended earlier. But it has in fact ended. I hope that others like him also … ★ 1 The Trader Joe's frozen baladi flatbread is absolutely wonderful, just amazing. Strongly recommend. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/lifestyle/two-factor-authentication-cyber-security-hackers/ It is striking that all of the use cases described in this article are cases where the "one user is one person" paradigm not only has broken… ★ 1 The idea that "a user" == "exactly one human" was never right. The 2FA extension with "exactly one human" == "a phone" is bananapants. The emerging age-verification syllogism of "a phone" == "a chronological age" is verging on self-parody.… ★ 5 I have seen good LLM-generated code. But not much of it, and not today. Today, I want to punch this code in the face. Maybe the code will be better tomorrow. Please write code that can be understood and edited. I don't really care how. T… ★ 1 On the neighborhood cleanup today, found a trash pile where someone clearly had stirred two nips of vodka into a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew. I always have in mind that many people in the square are having a much worse day than I am... bu… My childhood church building had a strange mix of styles, with some new-classical, some Federal, some gorgeously modernist interior spaces, an absolute hodge-podge. At the time this seemed perfectly normal to me, but in fact it was because… ★ 1 Due to my newfound appreciation of semantic linters and coverage tools, I am pleased to predict the next great programming language: Lintercal. We generalize the Intercal "PLEASE" operator to OOP; every API must define the _polite_ way to… ★ 1

🐘 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.

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 4.5× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

80/100 Excellent

Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

Est. authentic audience

97%

Fake-follower risk

Low

Data confidence

High

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

About

Roboticist, meticulous software dead-ender, Im in ur C++ objecting to ur barepointers. Cambridge, MA; he/him; grumpy but anarchist-ish. No time for: * LaTeX in code comments * Default-case Turing completeness * Hegel * Plantigrade bipedalism * XML for data-at-rest * Political legitimacy * Avocados * Software-in-the-loop eStops * ISObus * Implicit mutability * Reference semantics punning * Nations * Especially Hegel * cmake

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