#heisenbugs

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

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
11
Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 11
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Mastodon · last 11
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Open-web mentions
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Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:28 UTC
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0 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 19:28 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #heisenbugs.

Live pulse

measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 19:28 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 11 public posts (spanning ~41143 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • making fresh #Introduction since I've been on Mastodon a year & tons of new folks have joined since I'm a #programmer for many decades fave lang now is #Golang but also strong in & willing to work in #C #Java or #Python and ideally on #Linu

    synlogic@[email protected]♥ 1↻ 42023-11-27 15:47 UTCView post →
  • Can bugs be there and not there at the same time? The analogy to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle admittedly falls a bit short; #Heisenbugs are more like bedbugs - you notice the symptoms, but it's hard to locate the actual bug. We're pro

    Georg Weissenbacher@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 02026-02-24 10:13 UTCView post →
  • I'm really puzzled by the fact that GNOME System Monitor 46+ just randomly stops refreshing the Processes treeview after a while. I was not able to identify the exact trigger for that bug. Can anyone else help figure out what makes the auto

    Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)@[email protected]♥ 0↻ 12024-09-15 17:35 UTCView post →

What “heisenbugs” means

Wikipedia

In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first introduced the uncertainty principle, and it is a reference to the observer effect, which states that the act of observing a system inevitably alters its state. In electronics, the traditional term is probe effect, where attaching a test probe to a device changes its behavior. The te

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#heisenbugs across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #heisenbugs 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/heisenbugs