Jamie Birch

@birch_js

Cross-platform engineer trying to make native app dev as pleasant as web dev

5 998Followers

866Following

14 200Posts total

662KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views12 113this account7 264median for under 10K

Reach, %201.95%this account475.35%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.39%this account0.97%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 113	7 264	1.67×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.0× audience	4.8× audience	0.42×
Engagement rate	0.39%	0.97%	0.40×

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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

637.7K29 Aug

15.7K

8.6K

433 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%29 Aug

0.35%

0.60%

0.00%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes82.6%2 640 in total

Reposts1.6%50 in total

Replies1.9%62 in total

Quotes1.7%55 in total

Bookmarks12.2%389 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

@birch_js @mitchellh @JorgeWritesCode Reference article for the curious: https://t.co/Y5SVZiKy6o 43 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @birch_js @JorgeWritesCode It is notarized and stapled so it avoids some of this slowdown but yeah. 8.6K views · 51 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 @mitchellh @JorgeWritesCode My first thought was “this can’t be a notarised build, right?” just that there’s a lot of security checks that slow down app launches, no matter how lightweight your app is. https://t.co/Y2GGaaFLqf 15.7K views · 52 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. 637.7K views · 2.5K likes · 50 reposts · 60 replies 29 Aug 2026