#osdev
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #osdev from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #osdev
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 2026-11-09 00:28 UTC4 uses by 3 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 2026-11-09 00:28 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 00:28 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1341 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (34) · Russian (3) · Spanish (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
This week, I've decided that, since I haven't written any actual code on my Big Software Project for a few months, I'm modifying the project goals. I am now writing a work of speculative fiction, which is the set of manuals for the operatin
👾 The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) – Desktop On Fire! ｢ While Windows NT pretended to be a serious operating system, while Linux was still “unusable for mortals” (oh, those times!), an
Virtualized Redox: from Virtio-FS to Cloud Hypervisor, and beyond via @hugoarnal https://lobste.rs/s/zozcwa #osdev https://www.redox-os.org/news/virtualized-redox/
What “osdev” means
WikipediaThe development of a hobbyist operating system is one of the more involved and technical options for a computer hobbyist. The definition of a hobby operating system can sometimes be vague. It can be from the developer's view, where the developers do it just for fun or learning; it can also be seen from the user's view, where the users are only using it as a novelty; or it can be defined as an operating system which doesn't have a very big user base.
“Hobbyist operating system” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#osdev across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #osdev 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/osdev