#programming

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #programming from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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385
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
301
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
40
Recent posts
Mastodon
~2.5/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 40
0.8
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 40
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-08 10:42 UTC
80
11-02
60
11-03
70
11-04
68
11-05
35
11-06
62
11-07
10
11-08

385 uses by 301 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-08 10:42 UTC
#programminglanguages
13 uses · 9 accounts / 7d
#ProgrammingEducation
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#ProgrammingTools
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#PairProgramming
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#programminghumor
4 uses · 4 accounts / 7d
#ComputerProgramming
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#programmingtips
3 uses · 2 accounts / 7d
#programminglanguage
1 uses · 1 accounts / 7d
#programmingtalent
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#programmingchaos
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#programmingquestion
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#programmingatkukei
8 uses · 4 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-08 10:42 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~16 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (35) · Japanese (1) · French (1) · Arabic (1) · German (1)

Avg boosts / post: 1.1

Top of the latest posts

  • RE: https://defcon.social/@riverpunk/117568060385140896 Lots of very interesting discussions on this post. With the amount of fair criticisms against the Free Software/Open Source movement's approach, and where it has seemed to fail, I wond

    River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@riverpunk@defcon.social♥ 28↻ 202026-11-08 02:57 UTCView post →

  • So I'm thinking about getting some more work on https://modrinth.com/mod/sunken-trinkets done to get it playable on more modern versions of #minecraft . But I'm really undecided how to go forward with the versioning. Like what mc versions s

    Mai :v_trans:@mai_lapyst@soc.saiyajin.space♥ 2↻ 22026-11-08 00:13 UTCView post →

  • Five memorable books about programming (2008) https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html #programming

    Curated Hacker News@CuratedHackerNews@mastodon.social♥ 2↻ 02026-11-07 18:28 UTCView post →

What “programming” means

Wiktionary

programming/ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/

  • verbTo enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
  • nounThe designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.
Full entry on Wiktionary →

#programming across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #programming 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.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

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/programming