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ThePrimeagen
@ThePrimeagen · 378.1K followers
Best of 2024 · 13.9K likes
“great, now I am really stuck in vim”
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 37 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 37. Holding, not climbing.
Amjad Masad
@amasad · 487.6K followers
@ThePrimeagen
Biggest post of 2026 · 516 likes · Sep 3, 2026
forgive me, for I have installed flatpak
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@amasad
@ThePrimeagen
No post framed as earnings among the 12 posts read.
@amasad
$20K
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Sep 29, 2025 · 19.2K likes
Happy to fund your migration. For Core customers, send your Vercel/v0 cancellation screenshot to support@replit and we’ll give you $50 of credits. If you have an annual enterprise contract with them,…
Read the postEvery 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.
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top post points at @amasad · 1 quote · 5.8K likes
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of 100 top posts point at @ThePrimeagen
One way. @ThePrimeagen’s best posts point at @amasad; none of @amasad’s top posts point at @ThePrimeagen. 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 | @ThePrimeagen | @amasad |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 47 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | — |
| GitHub days in 2026 | 203 | 3 |
| GitHub days · last 90 | 85 | 2 |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | 76 | 1 |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | 59% | 1% |
Best of 2025 · 150.5K likes
“Wat”
35 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.
Biggest post of 2026 · 54 likes · Sep 4, 2026
Marvin Minsky wrote about this in The Emotion Machine. Emotions are a core part of human intelligence, not some epiphenomenal side effect of human evolution (which presumably many AI folks believe it is). Minsky describ…
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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 | 90% | 100% |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Top posts from the peak | 37 | 35 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 379.9K | 825.7K |
| Best post | 24.9K | 150.5K |
| Median likes | 2.7K | 3.1K |
| Years in a row with a top post | 4 | 6 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×1.7 | ×4.7 |
| Followers | 378.1K | 487.6K |