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Derek Botten
@DerekRockBotten · 535 followers
The 100 posts X exposes for @DerekRockBotten hold 385 likes between them, too few to tell a peak from noise. No stamp.
Arvid Kahl
@arvidkahl · 209.1K followers
@DerekRockBotten
No 2026 post in the read yet.
@arvidkahl
@DerekRockBotten
No post framed as earnings among the 188 posts read.
@arvidkahl
No post framed as earnings among the 14 posts read.
Every line is a post by the account itself that names a dollar figure, newest first, linked so you can read it in place. ShipRatio checks that the post exists, not the number. A figure framed as revenue, MRR, profit, or sales is marked earned; a price, a raise, or someone else’s number is a mention.
@DerekRockBotten → @arvidkahl
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top posts point at @arvidkahl · 2 quotes · 6 likes
@arvidkahl → @DerekRockBotten
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top post points at @DerekRockBotten · 1 mention · 410 likes
It goes both ways. @DerekRockBotten’s best posts point at @arvidkahl and @arvidkahl’s point back. Counted from each account’s top posts, where a quote, a reply, or a mention each count one post. Likes, follows, and replies received are not visible in this data and are not claimed.
| Measure | @DerekRockBotten | @arvidkahl |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 0 | 50 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | 0 | — |
| GitHub days in 2026 | — | 231 |
| GitHub days · last 90 | — | 87 |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | — | 75 |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | — | 92% |
Best of 2024 · 85.8K likes
“lol”
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 25 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 13. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Biggest post of 2026 · 23 likes · Sep 3, 2026
First thing this morning, pre-coffee, btw, I just yapped this prompt into my Claude Code session. 20 minutes later, after running a few diagnostic SQL queries on a prod replica, a 15min+ query is now running in 375ms. H…
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This year is shown, not ranked: likes accumulate with age, so 2026 is always undercounted against completed years. The GitHub side counts days with any activity, public or private, from the contribution calendar.
| Private share of that activity | — | 100% |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2019 | 2024 |
| Top posts from the peak | 20 | 25 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 385 | 314.5K |
| Best post | 33 | 156.3K |
| Median likes | 2 | 362 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 0 | 7 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | — | ×0.2 |
| Followers | 535 | 209.1K |