#daringfireball
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #daringfireball from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #daringfireball
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:48 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:48 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #daringfireball.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~31934 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00
Languages: English (37) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
Any other longtime #Macos users remember the "secret" slo-mo window minimize effect? It was done by shift-clicking the yellow (minimize) button. Apple disabled it many years ago, but as #daringfireball reveals, it's actually still there! TL
""" [Sun and Xue] defrauded Apple by submitting counterfeit iPhones for repair, to get Apple to exchange them with genuine replacement iPhones. [..] They submitted the fake iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple
Is that a battery in your pocket or…kidding aside, this bit about the #VisionPro on the recent #TheTalkShow made me chuckle. @gruber: “We are powering it with the best battery anyone has ever made.” @adamlisagor: “This is an ingenious solut
What “daringfireball” means
WikipediaJohn Gruber is a technology blogger, UI designer, and co-creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber writes the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and hosts its accompanying podcast, The Talk Show.
“John Gruber” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#daringfireball across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #daringfireball 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/daringfireball