Erik Nygren :verified:

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Followers
798
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

My wife @Ksushis is amazing. She just finished crocheting this dragon. #dragons #crafts #amigurumi978 views My wife @Ksushis is amazing. She just finished crocheting this dragon. #dragons #crafts #amigurumi Another crocheted #amigurumi dragon by my amazing wife @Ksushis #crafts #dragon #crochet202 views Another crocheted #amigurumi dragon by my amazing wife @Ksushis #crafts #dragon #crochet More photos of the amazing dragon my wife @Ksushis crocheted.75 views More photos of the amazing dragon my wife @Ksushis crocheted. Designed a bedside charger in @freecad to charge my phone, watch, and Oura ring. https://www.printables.com/model/1628293-pixelsnap-pixel-123-watch-oura4-ring-charging-stan #3dprinting #freecad #googlepixel23 views Designed a bedside charger in @freecad to charge my phone, watch, and Oura ring. https://www.printables.com/model/1628293-pixelsnap-pixel-123-watch-oura4-ring-charging-stan #3dprinting #freecad #googlepixel

📊 Post engagement

112
Avg engagement / post
14%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: My wife @Ksushis is amazing. She just finished crocheting this · 978 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.88 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.2×
Follows 648 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post My wife @Ksushis is amazing. She just finished crocheting this dragon. #dragons #crafts #amigurumi ★ 978
A friend posted one of these photos of the #Boston Citgo Sign. Another friend then generated a computer rendered artificial picture derivation with the comment: "Surely a large geometric portal over Boston will be no problem." #Dimensio… ★ 4 I am tempted to make this IBM slide from 1979 into my profile picture. This feeds heavily into my thoughts on the use of #AgenticAI -- in particular, that it is imperative that certain decisions must live with entities who *can* be held ac… ★ 11 It was inspiring to see all of the things people were making and some cool research from MIT labs. This robotic face was something a Harvard undergrad made in her How to Make Anything class at MIT. (The Maker community has come a long wa… ★ 2 It was awesome to meet Josef Prusa from #Prusa3d at #FabHub in Kendall Sq! It was the first event in the great new Fab Hub space. I look forward to them opening this summer. ★ 2 I feel seen... (Although with #3dprinting some of these factors go away but get swapped into different ones.) https://xkcd.com/3233/ #xkcd ★ 17 Amazing view of the Earth and moon from the Artemis spacecraft. As someone who grew up with a mural from the Apollo missions on my bedroom wall (and put the same mural on my kids' wall) it is great to see some new photos from our explorat… ★ 12 More photos of the amazing dragon my wife @Ksushis crocheted. ★ 75 Another crocheted #amigurumi dragon by my amazing wife @Ksushis #crafts #dragon #crochet ★ 202 Pet peeve of the day: the #Google #gmail configuration pane to send mail through an authenticated connection to an SMTP server and conflates #TLS and #SSL in misleading ways. In this UI there are two selectors: 1) "Secured connection usi… ★ 16 I got tired of dodging dog droppings on the sidewalk in my neighborhood. Solution (we shall see if it helps): signs on some street posts with integrated dog poop bag dispensers. Designed in #FreeCAD (but using someone else's artwork -- … ★ 7 Designed a bedside charger in @freecad to charge my phone, watch, and Oura ring. https://www.printables.com/model/1628293-pixelsnap-pixel-123-watch-oura4-ring-charging-stan #3dprinting #freecad #googlepixel ★ 23

🐘 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 112 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

90/100 Excellent
  • Est. 93% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong content engagement (~0.1× of followers) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
93%
Fake-follower risk
Low

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Internet Systems Architect, #Maker, Father, Husband, tinkerer, #IPv6 evangelist, #IETF standards, long-time #Linux user, and wanna-be mad scientist. Deals with complex systems and #ops/#infosec. $dayjob at #Akamai (as20940) since 1999. Toots my own. He/Him.

📸 Gallery

A friend posted one of these photos of the #Boston Citgo Sign. Another friend then generated a computer rendered artificial picture derivation with the comment: "Surely a large geometric portal over Boston will be no problem." #DimensionalPortals #CitgoSign I am tempted to make this IBM slide from 1979 into my profile picture. This feeds heavily into my thoughts on the use of #AgenticAI -- in particular, that it is imperative that certain decisions must live with entities who *can* be held accountable. Agents need to be sandboxed to be operating with It was inspiring to see all of the things people were making and some cool research from MIT labs. This robotic face was something a Harvard undergrad made in her How to Make Anything class at MIT. (The Maker community has come a long way since I was a student!) It was awesome to meet Josef Prusa from #Prusa3d at #FabHub in Kendall Sq! It was the first event in the great new Fab Hub space. I look forward to them opening this summer. I feel seen... (Although with #3dprinting some of these factors go away but get swapped into different ones.) https://xkcd.com/3233/ #xkcd Amazing view of the Earth and moon from the Artemis spacecraft. As someone who grew up with a mural from the Apollo missions on my bedroom wall (and put the same mural on my kids' wall) it is great to see some new photos from our exploration that will surely become iconic. https://images.nasa.gov/d More photos of the amazing dragon my wife @Ksushis crocheted. Another crocheted #amigurumi dragon by my amazing wife @Ksushis #crafts #dragon #crochet

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