#escapesequences
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #escapesequences 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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 11:46 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-27 11:46 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #escapesequences.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 11:46 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~14012 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (4) · Polish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
Modern web users fear XSS in browsers, but did you know terminals can be vulnerable too? If you cat a log file with malicious escape sequences, your terminal might execute them. Clever attackers have used this trick to inject commands, log
Here's a #text #formatting #tip for you, especially if your text has #escapesequences in them: col -bx < ./file.txt > ./file.txt.filtered Note the use of '<' and '>' due to the redirect of col using ioctl(). I'm sure I've read somewhere tha
As always, an excellent summary by Julia Evans: “Terminal Colours Are Tricky” (https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/01/terminal-colours/). On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41727971 On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/by4qfk/terminal_colours
#escapesequences across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #escapesequences 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/escapesequences