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180
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Robert Alexander
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
1.1%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: It's interesting to see AI maximalists interpret people's aversi · 3 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.1×
Follows 168 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The structure feels similar to OPML Blogrolls (https://opml.org/blogroll.opml), in that both are a discoverable lists of feed URLs. There's some convention to host those under .well-known/recommendations.opml, but that hasn't been formaliz…
@mnot here is a Feed Menu implementation that lists Atom feeds for IETF Mailing Lists.
https://ietf-feed-menu-demo.alexsci.com/
In the future, IETF could host their own, but Feed Menu seems to support curation on unrelated domains.
Woah, I never considered how many DNS queries you could generate from a single lookup.
> Ondřej’s example was teams.microsoft.com, which took his Bind resolver running 9.16 247 queries!
https://blog.apnic.net/2026/06/02/cold-start-dns/
I personally won't use it as it appears to be vibe-coded, but I think the concept is worth sharing. I found it via this blog post about leaving GitHub.
https://lord.io/leaving-github/
J3 is a git repository backed by Amazon S3 storage. I think it's a really clever approach to rethink how git data is stored and it should scale exceptionally well using that foundation.
https://code.lord.io/j3/
@sethmlarson has a clever approach to generating his human.json, which is to automatically generate it from the RSS feeds he follows.
https://sethmlarson.dev/ive-added-human-dot-json-to-my-website
I ended up building my own web clock (https://clock.alexsci.com/) as I debugged what was happening on https://time.gov. It's a fun web application performance problem as it's extremely sensitive to networking effects. PerformanceResourceTi…
About a month ago I noticed that NIST's time.gov website had a measurement error that caused it to miscalculate the offset of your device's clock relative to UTC. I reported the issue and they've released a fix. Full details in my latest p…
I set up a landing page for Blog Quest today. Bulma keeps being my go-to CSS framework for quick projects like this.
https://blog-quest.alexsci.com/
I do front-end projects just infrequently enough to constantly get bit by framework churn. I just found out that create-react-app has sunset.
I built a serverless web clock this week. A Cloudflare header transform rule adds the time at the CDN edge. https://clock.alexsci.com/
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
Dec 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 1.1× 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 (~1.1% 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
I build open source software as a hobby and share ideas and progress here. I am a father, husband, software developer, and hiker. You may know me through US Digital Service, Amazon, NVIDIA. I've lived in NY, TX, CA, VA (USA). He/Him pronouns.
Statements are my own and do not represent the positions or opinions of my employer.
#fedi22 #Linux #RSS #DevOps #Freelancer
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