Channel
@reddit_programming
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192subscribers
-5 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001083671586 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @reddit_programming |
| Created | Between 1 September 2016 and 30 September 2017 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 6 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/reddit_programming |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 24 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Oct 2026, 16:36 | 192 | +2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 12:57 | 190 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 22:02 | 191 | -2 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 05:55 | 193 | -2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 05:03 | 195 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 19:56 | 195 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 00:55 | 197 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 July 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 3 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdjt5i/should_you_normalize_rgb_values_by_255_or_256/ submitted by /u/fagnerbrack (https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack) [link] (https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdjt5i/should_you_normalize_rgb_values_by_255_or_256/)
An Unexpected Computer – Universal computing with echo, ed, test and exec [pdf] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdiryk/an_unexpected_computer_universal_computing_with/ <!-- SC_OFF -->In PagedOut #9 https://pagedout.institute/ <!-- SC_ON --> submitted by /u/Dull_Replacement8890 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Dull_Replacement8890) [link] (https://seriot.ch/resources/unexpected_computer_pagedout_009…
Every byte matters https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdfij8/every_byte_matters/ submitted by /u/fagnerbrack (https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack) [link] (https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdfij8/every_byte_matters/)
Why I don't recommend Tailwind CSS https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdf6j8/why_i_dont_recommend_tailwind_css/ submitted by /u/Either_Collection349 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Either_Collection349) [link] (https://en.andros.dev/blog/af3ee191/why-i-dont-recommend-tailwind-css/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdf6j8/why_i_dont_recommend_tailwind_css/)
Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk. Powerful, Event-Driven, Open-Source And Future-Proof Toolkit… From the Past?! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vdcv3x/develop_crossplatform_cli_and_gui_tools_with/ submitted by /u/CGM (https://www.reddit.com/user/CGM) [link] (https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide) [comments] (https://w…
Understanding Raft Leader Election by building from scratch https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vd9q70/understanding_raft_leader_election_by_building/ submitted by /u/Sushant098123 (https://www.reddit.com/user/Sushant098123) [link] (https://sushantdhiman.dev/blog/raft/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vd9q70/understanding_raft_leader_election_by_building/)
Quantum Computers May Put Internet Traffic at Risk. NIST Is Safeguarding Computers With New Standards. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vd7jnr/quantum_computers_may_put_internet_traffic_at/ submitted by /u/donutloop (https://www.reddit.com/user/donutloop) [link] (https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/quantum-computers-may-put-internet-traffic-risk-nist-safeguarding-computers-new) [comments…
Variations on a theme of sorting https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vd5q3j/variations_on_a_theme_of_sorting/ <!-- SC_OFF -->Semisort Reorder an array so that identical keys are grouped contiguously Keys do not need to be in sorted order Stable Partition Group by predicate, preserve order K-smallest selection, single Get the k-smallest key from the array K-smallest selection, list Get the k-smallest key…
The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vcsm8w/the_history_of_pets_vs_cattle_and_how_to_use_the/ submitted by /u/fagnerbrack (https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack) [link] (https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vcsm8w/the_history_of_pet…
The Bedrock of Software Design https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vcl5bj/the_bedrock_of_software_design/ <!-- SC_OFF -->I drafted this post years ago but didn’t finish it until now. The concept I write about has shaped the way I design software more than anything else, and I believe every software engineer should be introduced to it early in their career. P.S. I don’t want the title to come across as cli…
Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vc25gi/pwnd_blaster_hacking_your_pc_using_your_speaker/ submitted by /u/fagnerbrack (https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack) [link] (https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vc25gi/pwnd_blaster_hacking_your_pc_using_your_sp…
On Type Inference https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vbp0vm/on_type_inference/ submitted by /u/radekmie (https://www.reddit.com/user/radekmie) [link] (https://radekmie.dev/blog/on-type-inference/) [comments] (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vbp0vm/on_type_inference/)
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @reddit_programming. 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 6 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Reddit Programming” (@reddit_programming), 192 subscribers as measured 6 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/reddit_programming.
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.