#programmers
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #programmers from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #programmers
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-10 03:48 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-10 03:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-10 03:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~2904 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 2.1
Top of the latest posts
#UNIX is not just an OS; it is arguably the ultimate #IDE for #programmers, and the best written introductory book on UNIX programming is "The UNIX Programming Environment", Kernighan (1983). This book covers UNIX V7, but I used it with 4.2
The very best thing about #learning how to write your own #computer #programs may be, that other #programmers have no longer a say on what type, or how old, a computer you should be using... or which #operatingsystem you should have install
By the time I started poking round in LISP, sometime in the mid 1980s, I had been programming in assembly, FORTRAN, and C for a few years—the weapons of all EE undergrads, in those days. I was #imperative, to the core. Yet, I took to LISP.
What “programmers” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaA programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code, or someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer may be used for jobs that require a programmer.
“Programmer” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#programmers across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #programmers straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/programmers