The Pragmatic Engineer

@Pragmatic_Eng · joined 05 Jul 2022

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49 802Followers

3Following

566Posts total

18KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 833this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.69%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.84%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 833	2 751	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.69%	9.00%	0.63×
Engagement rate	0.84%	1.65%	0.51×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

6.5K28 Aug

2.8K30 Aug

4.8K31 Aug

2K1 Sep

1.9K2 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.01%28 Aug

0.49%30 Aug

1.43%31 Aug

0.40%1 Sep

0.84%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes61.7%150 in total

Reposts3.3%8 in total

Replies4.1%10 in total

Quotes1.6%4 in total

Bookmarks29.2%71 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Is premature optimization the root of all evil? Casey Muratori, @cmuratori, programmer and performance nerd, with three takeaways: #1 - Performance experts can't clean up after the fact “The idea is I'm just going to delay optimization work. I'm just going to make whatever I'm 1.9K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 How do you stay hands-on whilst leading a 50+ person org? @addyosmani, author & formerly Google engineering director: "You want to get to a point where your machine, your org, is self-sufficient enough that you just need to occasionally tap the blimp to make sure things are 2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Software engineers should read papers. Casey Muratori, @cmuratori, programmer and performance nerd, on why it’s worth your time: “I want to recommend that people read a paper. I am constantly reading papers on things that I am interested in. If I'm going to go do some https:// 4.8K views · 63 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 “Production is a stage of development.” Charity Majors(@mipsytipsy), CTO and cofounder of Honeycomb, on what devs can learn from QA and Ops: “Ops and QA have always been more concerned with what is. Software engineering has always been much more concerned with how it should be. 2.8K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 30 Aug 2026 "We are not using AI tools at all". Casey Muratori, @cmuratori, programmer and performance nerd: “The reason that I want to program things in a game is because I want to program them. If I just wanted an AI to program them, we'd probably just go use a licensed engine. I https:/ 6.5K views · 55 likes · 4 reposts · 5 replies 28 Aug 2026