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721
Account age
7 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Sep 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I’m very sad to hear about the passing of Noah Gibbs @codefolio · 11 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.22 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.6×
Follows 201 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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So increasing your bus factor still means improving communication with this perspective and I like that.
A team member suggested that we need less violent metaphors when the "bus factor" term came up.
Another person thought that it meant something about a bus in electronics which is actually a way better metaphor
"A bus is a pathway in electr…
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to open a gigantic, disorganized pull request and remove all doubt
…anyway, here's why you should consider using the surrounded gem
https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1cic1ml/how_good_the_surrounded_gem_is/l28jz1e/
You can add features and easily throw them away.
Model interactions, not classes of th…
Someone has discovered “surrounded”
What will people say?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1cic1ml/how_good_the_surrounded_gem_is/
Where’s the best place to learn about ruby?
There seems to be plenty of resources that are many years old. Is there recent documentation or blogs out there about working with it?
I’m using custom exceptions from Pundit in a rails project.
Pundit doesn’t have a blessed way of doing that so I override the `raise` method to get a custom exception per policy as I need.
I asked about it here https://github.com/varvet/pu…
I hope my toot finds you well
How are people handling stimulus JS tests in #rails ?
Some people see the glass half empty. Others see it half with water and the other half with no longer functioning magnets
Just discovered that a jsonb column is storing a YAML string by default and I’m so mad at rails right now
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Sep 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 7 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (7+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Author of Clean Ruby http://clean-ruby.com and Ruby DSL Handbook http://clean-ruby.com/dsl. http://mastersandstrong.com 🏋️https://saturnflyer.com/subscribe 📧
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