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Followers
8.2K
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$46 – $75 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Alex Russell
📊 Post engagement
97
Avg engagement / post
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: IDK who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't buy promises of ut · 824 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
22.8 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 0 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
5.1×
Follows 1.6K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Values are a measure of tools, not the other way around. It's impossible to reliably do good and meaningful work under confusion about that fact.
You could replace "AI" with "React" and post this 7 years ago WOLOG. Frontend's enshittification was a clean dry-run of what we're living through at wider scale now.
Same failure rates (by any objective metric), same religious fervour, sam…
Comity is a hell of a drug.
I should note here that celebrations about Temporal bolster, rather than blunt, the case; it came into committee in *2017*, back when I was still Chrome's Standards TL: https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/
You aren't beating …
TC39ers: but that's not fair! It's the implementers that aren't pushing for new things!
me: yes.....?
TC39ers: but how is the rest of the committee supposed to make the outside world aware that this is a dysfunctional situation without blo…
TC39ers: the committee is working well and doesn't need fundamental reform.
me: <checks on statuses of the largest, most top-of-mind features anyone has dared to bring into the Bermuda Triangle of SDO progress since I stopped attending...>…
Our moral and political imagination must concieve and demand Elon Musk behind bars for the rest of his life.
All of this was made much easier because the automations, naming, and areas were already beautifully laid out and gardened thanks to @phae. Makes it that much easier to be the monkey turning the proverbial wrench.
Moved ~50 devices from SmartThings to HA (a mix of older and newer switches, sensors, etc.), and it feels *so* good to have the ST hub out of the loop. More ports back on the switch, lower latency overall, and it turned out that ST wasn't …
Well played:
https://youtu.be/fE7B8sJTKj8
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ICYMI, finally breaking my silence and coming out in favour of...time.
That can't be right...can it?
https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/
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ICYMI, finally breaking my silence and coming out in favour of...time.
That can't be right...can it?
https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
toot.cafe
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
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 97 views per post.
📤Posts about 22.8× 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 (~1.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Trying to make the web work for *everyone*.
https://infrequently.org/about-me/
Still not speaking for my employer, lo these many years.
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