#kludges
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #kludges from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #kludges
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 09:21 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-09-27 09:21 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #kludges.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 09:21 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~9106 hours).
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Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0
Top of the latest posts
No, I do not want to stack more #kludges on top of 20+ years of #technicaldebt to get this working. All over the file system, all different users and groups. Things were less standard then. Things are more standard now. I’m tempted to sugge
A few of #Python 3 #quirks and #kludges • Global Interpreter Lock • Strong, dynamic typing • Massive \(\texttt{Any}\) hole in the type system • Verbose class definition • Declaration of instance attributes is their definitions in \(\texttt{
What “kludges” means
WikipediaA kludge or kluge is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. Its only benefit is that it rapidly solves an important problem using available resources. A famous example is the improvised CO2 scrubber that kept the astronauts alive on Apollo 13. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, animation and government. It is similar in meanin
“Kludge” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#kludges across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #kludges 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/kludges