Channel
@iamluminousmen
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490subscribers
-5 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001222503362 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @iamluminousmen |
| Created | 20 July 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/iamluminousmen |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2026, 21:38 | 490 | -3 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 22:36 | 493 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 15:17 | 492 | -3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:47 | 495 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:01 | 495 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 26 February 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 28 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
99 reactions across 19 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 44.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 44 | 44.4% | |
| ❤ | 20 | 20.2% | |
| 👍 | 14 | 14.1% | |
| 💯 | 12 | 12.1% | |
| 🆒 | 3 | 3.03% | |
| 👀 | 2 | 2.02% | |
| 😁 | 2 | 2.02% | |
| 😎 | 1 | 1.01% | |
| 🦄 | 1 | 1.01% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 19 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 99 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 26 February 2026 to 28 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Most of your backfills didn't have to happen. A team I worked with once caught a bug that had been quietly corrupting data for a month. Two-line fix. They re-ran the pipeline over 30 days, went to lunch, and came back to a number that had doubled. Because of append mode. 🔗 Link: https://luminousmen.com/post/most-of-your-backfills-didnt-have-to-happen/
❤2
I always thought I could feel the difference between something a human made and something a machine made. Then I found out a million people cried at an AI band, and stopped the second they saw the label, same songs. New post: why my empathy turned out to be a sticker detector, and what actually survives when the sticker gets faked. 🔗Link: https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/my-empathy-is-a-sticker-detector
🔥2
I'm about to lose some followers. Design patterns suck. 🔗Link: https://luminousmen.com/post/design-patterns-suck/
💯4
Yikes Google: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
I've built an AI whose only job is to tell me that I'm full of shit. Not write code or summarize my meetings. Just find the hole in my reasoning before a coworker finds it for me in a Slack thread two days later. I built a Claude Code skill that plays devil's advocate on my own work. I paste in my analysis, and before I send anything it runs a structured challenge: What am I assuming? What evidence did I skip? What…
❤2
Everyone asks how the vibe coding's going. Nobody asks how the vibe's doing. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tdyrdv/claudes_first_day_at_dunder_mifflin/
👍1🦄1
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💯5
AI isn't replacing data engineers. It's replacing the work that never should have been called data engineering in the first place. Link: https://luminousmen.com/post/if-your-data-engineer-can-be-replaced-by-an-agent-you-already-hired-badly/
❤2
A data engineer on Reddit got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years. The post lives on. I agree with almost all of it. Preserved it here: https://luminousmen.com/post/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as-a-sr-engineer
🔥3
"How many unique users did X AND Y?" - simple question, brutal to answer at scale. Theta sketches solve this. But the gap between "here's the algorithm" and "here's how to not get burned in production" is enormous. I wrote the guide I wish existed when I started working with them: https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/mastering-theta-sketches-for-cardinality
❤1
New post: Data Sketches - how to count unique users across billions of events without melting your cluster. Why COUNT DISTINCT doesn't scale, how sketches actually work under the hood, and which one to pick for your problem. https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/the-power-of-data-sketches-a-comprehensive
🔥2
Built a tycoon game about data engineering. You start at the ground level. Goal: reach AGI before you go bankrupt. Free, browser, no signup: https://game.luminousmen.com/
🔥9👀2😎1
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @iamluminousmen. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 3 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“L̶u̵m̶i̵n̷o̴u̶s̶m̶e̵n̵B̶l̵o̵g̵” (@iamluminousmen), 490 subscribers as measured 3 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/iamluminousmen.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.