#kernighan
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #kernighan 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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 02:48 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 02:48 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 02:48 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 22 public posts (spanning ~54387 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (18) · French (1) · German (1) · American English (1)
Avg boosts / post: 7.6
Top of the latest posts
By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draft #1 of #Kernighan and #Ritchie's C Programming Language book. Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvgKikM8vpZGxNzCjt4BM1ggBX0dlr-y #ComputerHistory #UNIX #CLang
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” — Brian Kernighan https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#ke
I just discovered this great video where Brian #Kernighan tells the story of how the #Unix command #grep came into existence. This story includes notable mentions of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZ
What “kernighan” means
WikipediaKernaghan is a surname. Other spellings include Kernochan, Kernohan, Kernighan, and Kernahan. Notable people with the surname include:
“Kernaghan” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#kernighan across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #kernighan 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/kernighan