The Pragmatic Engineer

@Pragmatic_Eng · joined 05 Jul 2022

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49 839Followers

3Following

568Posts total

41.7KViews on collected posts

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The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng3 Sep

Don't think "great software engineer." Think "great in that role." Casey Muratori, @cmuratori, programmer and performance nerd, on what makes a good engineer: "I would liken it to a baseball team. What's a good baseball player? Well, are we talking about a pitcher or a https:// 1.9K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng2 Sep

@cmuratori Find out why software performance matters and how developers can write faster code with Casey Muratori on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast • YouTube: https://t.co/O0Ii3ABwYX • Spotify: https://t.co/Y1B4QDT2IV • Apple: https://t.co/xhKuHJrGx4 • Summary and transcript: 955 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng2 Sep

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 20.8K views · 35 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng1 Sep

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 http 2.1K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng31 Aug

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:// 4.9K views · 63 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng30 Aug

“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. 2.9K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng29 Aug

@Pragmatic_Eng @cmuratori Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. I'd rather build the table too. Most of the world still needs to buy a chair somewhere. 109 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng28 Aug

@cmuratori Find out why software performance matters and how developers can write faster code with Casey Muratori on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: • YouTube: https://t.co/O0Ii3ABwYX • Spotify: https://t.co/Y1B4QDT2IV • Apple: https://t.co/xhKuHJrGx4 • Summary and transcript 1.5K views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Pragmatic Engineer@Pragmatic_Eng28 Aug

"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 · 56 likes · 4 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Face aux comptes de taille comparable

9 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. portée ordinaire pour sa taille, réaction plus faible que la moyenne.

Vues médianes2 105ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %4.22%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.47%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	2 105	924	2.28×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	4.22%	3.62%	1.17×
Taux d'engagement	0.47%	1.52%	0.31×

Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →

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

1.5K

10929 Aug

2.9K30 Aug

4.9K31 Aug

2.1K1 Sep

20.8K2 Sep

955

1.9K3 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.02%28 Aug

0.33%

0.00%29 Aug

0.56%30 Aug

1.40%31 Aug

0.48%1 Sep

0.20%2 Sep

0.10%

1.07%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes62.7%200 in total

Reposts3.8%12 in total

Replies3.4%11 in total

Quotes1.6%5 in total

Bookmarks28.5%91 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.