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340

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3 yrs

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I've been saying this for a decade but okay...
"You need to learn #Markdown now more than ever"
https://www.makeuseof.com/you-need-to-learn-markdown-now-more-than-ever/

2 views I've been saying this for a decade but okay... "You need to learn #Markdown now more than ever" https://www.makeuseof.com/you-need-to-learn-markdown-now-more-than-ever/

DeGoogling #Android is simpler than you think—no special phone required
https://www.howtogeek.com/de-googling-android-is-simpler-than-you-thinkno-special-phone-required/
#degoogle #fossdroid

2 views DeGoogling #Android is simpler than you think—no special phone required https://www.howtogeek.com/de-googling-android-is-simpler-than-you-thinkno-special-phone-required/ #degoogle #fossdroid

The People Who Will Thrive in the #AI Age
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/
> What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

1 views The People Who Will Thrive in the #AI Age https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/ > What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.6%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I’ve been going hard exploring #ai workflows for #presentationde · 2 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

1.1 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.8×

Follows 427 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I’ve been going hard exploring #ai workflows for #presentationdesign and #videoediting but getting consistent results, even slide-to-slide, is something LLM models fall down on. To them, each new slide layout is a completely new deliverable — it really struggles just making matc… ★ 2

ChatGPT confidently leads Polish mountain hikers into danger. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpts-hiking-advice-left-two-hikers-stranded-on-a-mountain-in-poland/ 2/2 A common problem with AI projects, you can get 90% of the way there in a fraction of the time, but then getting that critical last 10% of production quality, consistency, and accuracy gets you into an infinite loop of diminishing retur…

The People Who Will Thrive in the #AI Age https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/ > What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort. ★ 1

The #A.I. #Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-ai-design-aesthetic-thats-taking-over-the-internet > How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating ov… Agentic AI Video Motion Graphics and HTML Presentations – Create Multimedia with Free Fast Web Dev Tools and AI This post describes my recent experiments with #agenticai #vibecoding tools for creating #presentations and #video for #instruc… ★ 1

I've been saying this for a decade but okay... "You need to learn #Markdown now more than ever" https://www.makeuseof.com/you-need-to-learn-markdown-now-more-than-ever/ ★ 2 The #AI Conversation Is Moving Too Fast to Be Comprehensible https://www.tessera.news/read?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ftechnology%2F2026%2F05%2Ftoo-much-happening-too-fast%2F687177%2F%3Futm_source%3Dfeed&title=The+AI+Conversati… https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2026/05/07/canvas-hacked-bay-area-colleges-disrupted-by-global-cyberattack-on-learning-platform/ 9000 #CanvasLMS #universities #hacked! #edtech ★ 1

DeGoogling #Android is simpler than you think—no special phone required https://www.howtogeek.com/de-googling-android-is-simpler-than-you-thinkno-special-phone-required/ #degoogle #fossdroid ★ 2 I just want to wish everybody a very happy #EdBallsDay. #neverforget #edballs https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/weird-holidays/what-ed-balls-day

5 things FFmpeg can do that most people pay for https://www.makeuseof.com/what-ffmpeg-can-do-that-most-people-pay-for/

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indieweb.social

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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 1.1× per week.

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Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

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Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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About

Award-winning #instructionaldesigner for Autodesk with an #indieweb sensibility and a love of #freesoftware. Also a #musician, #singer, #songwriter, #guitarist, #Renoise producer, #videoeditor.