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@david_chisnall

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@david_chisnall is a Mastodon creator, tracked by ViralHunt since August 2026. Across 42 tracked posts they have accumulated 17K total engagement — an average of 404 per post. Of their top posts, 12 have been measured more than once and 12 grew between readings, adding 7.1K engagement, the fastest of them by 2073%. Their engagement over the last 30 days is up 80% versus the previous month.

42posts tracked

17Ktotal engagement

7.2Ktotal favourites

4.6Ktotal boosts

Most viral posts by @david_chisnall

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For people who still believe the GPL influences corporations in a meaningful way: When I was at Microsoft, I worked on a product that used L

Sep 14, 2026

FAV 736 BOO 517 REP 36 QUO 5

The other day, I wanted to see if alcohol-free port existed. The top search link went to a page of the 20 best alcohol-free ports! Except no

Sep 8, 2026

FAV 632 BOO 455 REP 43 QUO 4

I am not a lawyer. I have studied IP law in various forms guided by solicitors, barristers, and professors of law of my acquaintance since I

Sep 13, 2026

FAV 509 BOO 437 REP 26 QUO 7

One of the most useful things I learned working on open source was the ability to usefully cooperate with people who had different goals. Fi

Sep 6, 2026

FAV 487 BOO 285 REP 7 QUO 2

I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point,

Aug 28, 2026

FAV 394 BOO 227 REP 19 QUO 3

Journalists: A Ponzi Scheme is not a generic name for an investment scam. It is a very specific investment scam. It is misleading to refer t

Sep 16, 2026

FAV 354 BOO 246 REP 20 QUO 1

So, OpenAI admits two things in disclosures presented to the court: That their products are utterly dependent on work ingested without compe

Sep 18, 2026

FAV 278 BOO 282 REP 9 QUO 8

I am trying a new thing: Only boosting posts that make me happy or have something actionable for readers. It's good to be informed about dep

Sep 21, 2026

FAV 501 BOO 168 REP 22 QUO 3

One of our SaaS providers sent out a marketing email to all of their customers about new AI features. I replied saying that we used them as

Oct 8, 2026

FAV 224 BOO 157 REP 4 QUO 0

It's fun to mock Canada, but any country that has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve (this is a real thing, look it up) clearly has a set of pr

Sep 15, 2026

FAV 290 BOO 108 REP 13 QUO 3

When I was at Microsoft, one of the things I tried to persuade the Outlook / Exchange team to do was allow dietary preferences to be stored

Sep 1, 2026

FAV 199 BOO 148 REP 17 QUO 0

If there are two sides of a debate, and one side is people who volunteer to risk their lives to save people from drowning, and you're on the

Sep 11, 2026

FAV 183 BOO 128 REP 5 QUO 0

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