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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.
Atai Barkai
@ataiiam · 6.9K followers
@ThePrimeagen
Biggest post of 2026 · 516 likes · Sep 3, 2026
forgive me, for I have installed flatpak
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@ataiiam
@ThePrimeagen
No post framed as earnings among the 12 posts read.
@ataiiam
No post framed as earnings among the 219 posts read.
Congresspeople should get additional $1M bonus per year and get to keep more of it the less they spend in taxes (to align incentives). Cheapest money US would have ever spent.
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.
@ThePrimeagen → @ataiiam
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top post points at @ataiiam · 1 quote · 5.2K likes
@ataiiam → @ThePrimeagen
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of 100 top posts point at @ThePrimeagen
One way. @ThePrimeagen’s best posts point at @ataiiam; none of @ataiiam’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 | @ataiiam |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 54 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | 4.8K |
| GitHub days in 2026 | 203 | 105 |
| GitHub days · last 90 | 85 | 53 |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | 76 | 13 |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | 59% | 37% |
Best of 2023 · 96 likes
“registering a prediction. apple's headset will also have a screen *on the outside*, which shows (real or reconstructed) realtime video of t…”
Peak year 2023, three years ago. 36 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2023. 2025 produced 31. Holding, not climbing.
Biggest post of 2026 · 1.7K likes · Jun 25, 2026
Introducing Open Tag. A better, open-source Claude Tag. Works with any model, any agent harness, and fully custom agents. Supports → Generative UI → Streaming replies → Human in the Loop approvals → Full thread context…
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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% | 88% |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2023 |
| Top posts from the peak | 37 | 36 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 379.9K | 2.7K |
| Best post | 24.9K | 1.1K |
| Median likes | 2.7K | 8 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 4 | 4 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×1.7 | ×3.1 |
| Followers | 378.1K | 6.9K |