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Followers
80
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

📊 Post engagement

2
Avg engagement / post
2.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I was at Vivatech in Paris last week and could capture this beau · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
2.6 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 42 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
🔥 Top post I was at Vivatech in Paris last week and could capture this beautiful startup visual: A group of visitors impressed by an "autonomous" robot and the startup employee secretly controlling it ✨ . ★ 2
Recently, I was allowed to give a lecture on reasons adopt microservices 🙌 . Somehow I made it through most of my PhD teaching without entering a classroom (hint: it's COVID), so it was nice to be in person. P.S: The text behind me on the … ★ 1 embarrassing game, sad that there can't be two losers :( In my "post-pictures-of-starbucks"-era. But with that rare version of my name I had to :). Another wish for the coming AI age: Smart suggestions to continue watching on Netflix. So far I've watched S6:E1, S6:E2, S6:E3, S6:E4 and started S6:E5. Maybe with this amazing new technology one day we can figure out that I want to contin… Wow, my GitHub premium expired, and GitHub sent me 20 alarmist emails about how that would remove access to Copilot (which I never use)... and then just quietly 404ed all my GitHub pages (that they know I use). Technically my fault of cour… Anyone knows of any expat health insurance (not travel insurance) that is somewhat competent and can be bought for a few months, hopefully largely online? 😬 Looking forward to a beautiful evening 🥰 Do you know of other projects with a similar idea? Also, if you want to join the book club: https://www.heltweg.org/posts/book-club-designing-data-intensive-applications-2-nd-edition/ :) I used to watch other "building from 0" projects outside of my expertise, just because they are surprisingly fun. Two that come to mind are "Handmade Hero" by Casey Muratori (creating a game, https://guide.handmadehero.org/) and "SerenityO… Of course, the book builds from there and explains concepts such as SSTables, B-Trees, Column-Oriented Storage, Embeddings etc. But it reminded me that even crazy complicated engineering often has very simple fundamentals. We're still going strong reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, now on chapter 4, storage & retrieval. It starts by introducing the world's simplest database: #!/bin/bash db_set () { echo "$1,$2" >> database } db_get () { g…

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
mas.to
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
✅ 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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.6× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

89/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~2.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

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

About

Freelance Technical Product Manager & Engineer · PhD Computer Science · Founder at isselthal industries | Visit https://heltweg.org & https://isselthal.industries/ :)

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