#bootstrapping
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #bootstrapping from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-07 22:52 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 2026-09-07 22:52 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-07 22:52 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8563 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (35) · German (3) · French (1) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
Interesting tidbit about Rust as used in the Android OS: to prevent the trusting trust attack, and not rely on rust-lang.org build, they bootstrapped rustc 1.19 with mrustc (0.8.0), and then built all following rustc versions with their pre
“A Fully Reproducible C Toolchain Rooted on POSIX Shell”, master thesis by Laurent Huberdeau: https://github.com/udem-dlteam/pnut/blob/main/doc/thesis.pdf Interesting take on #bootstrapping, using POSIX shell as a base layer “taken for gran
Hypothisis: You need exactly 3 programming languages 1. Close-to-the metal, expressive and performant. (Zig) 2. Convenient high-level, automatic memory management, safe for untrusted input. (Janet?) 3. Language for bootstrapping 1 (Forth?)
What “bootstrapping” means
WikipediaIn general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input. Many analytical techniques are often called bootstrap methods in reference to their self-starting or self-supporting implementation, such as bootstrapping in statistics, in finance, or in linguistics.
“Bootstrapping” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#bootstrapping across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #bootstrapping 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/bootstrapping