#awk
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #awk from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #awk
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-20 20:33 UTC9 uses by 8 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 2026-10-20 20:33 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 20:33 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~1531 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 00:00
Languages: English (37) · Japanese (1) · Russian (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
@beatrix Write everything in #awk? 😉
@rl_dane • Calendar: remind(1) • Personal finances: hledger 1.x (there's some LLM-generated code in the 2.x branch) • Music: cmus(1) AFAICT • Scripting/programming: shell, #awk, C Do you happen to know the slopification-status of mutt/neomu
@benfulton I typically use #awk (most now have a --csv option to simplify CSV processing rather than tab-delimited input files) to process the data, and something like #gnuplot if I need to produce graph output of the data. For my personal
What “awk” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaawk/ɔːk/
- adjectiveOdd; out of order; perverse.
- adverbPerversely; in the wrong way.
AWK is a scripting language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The shell command that runs the AWK processor is named awk.
“AWK” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#awk across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #awk 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/awk