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Followers
185.8K
Posts
17.2K
Following
850
Account age
17 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post performance
85.6K
Avg views / post
46.1%
Reach vs followers
Oct 2008
On X since
🔥 Top post: I’ve been reluctant to try ChatGPT. Today I got over that reluct · 1.5M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.03 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 1 image · 17 text.
Follower / following
219×
Follows 850 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.
Recent posts
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@DeanPreston As a resident, you answer does not meet my needs. I want to park my car free from fear. If you can't help me do that, why exactly are you in office?
"Outsourcing unit testing" -- wtaf? That's like wanting to be fit so you pay someone else to exercise.
A 12-month roadmap is like a box of a dozen donuts & you can only eat 1 a month. By the time you get to 10, 11, 12 you'd really rather eat a fresh one. But no, you're in the Clean Plate Club so you choke 'em down.
Engineering turns ideas into reality. Science turns reality into ideas.
I am continuing work on "Tidy First? An Exercise In Empirical Software Design" as a @substack . No paid tier yet, but that's where book chapters will be appearing. Sign up here:
The goal of software design is to create chunks or slices that fit into a human mind. The software keeps growing but the human mind maxes out, so we have to keep chunking and slicing differently if we want to keep making changes.
Pardon me, @Twitter, can you take my check mark off and give it to these folks? Nobody is trying to harass and impersonate me,
so they need it more than I do.
When you try to make fewer mistakes by making fewer mistakes you slow feedback, learn less, and make more mistakes. When you speed feedback you learn more and make fewer mistakes.
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Tests should be coupled to the behavior of code and decoupled from the structure of code. Seeing tests that fail on both counts.
My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my conf…
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 85.6K views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬1.58% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated46/100
Fair
Credibility score
69%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 69% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.5× of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 1.58% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Pioneered JUnit/xUnit, patterns, XP, TDD. Ex-Apple, Meta, Gusto, Mechanical Orchard. Learning to be me. Blogging at http://newsletter.kentbeck.com.
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