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Followers
221
Account age
8 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
18
Avg engagement / post
8.1%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2018
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I'm #hiring a Principal Software Engineer for the Web Team at Ra · 112 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
3.2×
Follows 69 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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It’s also worth noting that rotating your Rails secret key base will regenerate all of your Active Storage URLs (i.e. any /storage/representations/... links to images, etc.) so you’ll also need to clear any caches, e.g. with `Rails.cache.c…
If you’re using Active Record Encryption and need to rotate its secrets, see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_encryption.html#rotating-keys
I added a new primary key to our configuration, e.g.
```
config.active_record.encryptio…
RE: https://ruby.social/@flavorjones/117003927959522056
Today is a good day to find out which of your application’s secrets are the most painful to rotate.
If you’re using Google’s Appointment Scheduling (https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_uk/resources/appointment-scheduling/) to invite people to book meetings with you, set a buffer time to leave space between meetings: https://support.goog…
#TIL about CSV Injection https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/CSV_Injection where user input can be interpreted as formulae in the likes of Excel and Numbers, e.g. `=HYPERLINK("http://evil","x")`. If you’re producing CSV exports, be sur…
RE: https://ruby.social/@mudge/116765095432650035
Less than two weeks to go to apply to join my team at Raspberry Pi, please do consider us if you're looking for your next Ruby role.
#TIL you can sprinkle bicarbonate of soda/baking soda on superglue (and build it up in layers) to make a sort of fast-setting, hard material. I used it to replace a broken tab on a bicycle light used to secure it in place and it seems to h…
“Bundler 4.0.13 introduces cooldown, a time-based filter that refuses to resolve to a version until it has been public for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the …
It seems HTTP/3 doesn’t have the same issue so you can enable that (https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/protocol/http3/) even with HTTP/2 disabled so modern browsers can still benefit while avoiding the issues we saw with …
#TIL Rails’ http_cache_forever hard codes the Last-Modified response header to 1 Jan 2011: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/127183d8fc44a9fb52542f7650c1ccc2eaa97f29/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/conditional_get.rb#L325
We’re testing disabling HTTP/2 as it seems like enhanced prioritisation may be causing issues in Safari 26.
It may not be enough to disable enhanced prioritisation alone as having HTTP/2 enabled can re-enable it. See https://developers.clo…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
ruby.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
Aug 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 18 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~8.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (8+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Computer programmer up t’north. Former organiser of London Computation Club and speaker at London Ruby User Group, now mostly writing Ruby, Go and JavaScript but also Python, PHP, Rust and Clojure. My views do not represent those of my employer.
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