The computers have been given voices because they earned them. https://thehandaiman.com/2026/08/07/the-mid-atlantic-museum-of-obsolete-interconnects/

Channel
TheHandAIMan
@thehandaiman
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
25subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003983758163 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thehandaiman |
| Created | Between 1 April 2026 and 21 June 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thehandaiman |
Topic
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 3 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 65% 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.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2026, 18:54 | 25 | +1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 14:43 | 24 | +2 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 13:18 | 22 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:37 | 22 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 21 June 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 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
7 reactions across 7 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 85.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 6 | 85.7% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 14.3% |
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 7 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 7 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 21 June 2026 to 7 August 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.
Recent posts
We're stepping up the pace of production here at TheHandAIMan. Introducing the saga of our refurbished 3D printer, which began as a disappointment, became the coolest thing ever, and resulted in comedy gold. https://thehandaiman.com/2026/07/28/go-fax-somebody-pops/
Unsportsmanlike Conduct in the Third Battle of My War on Stinging Insects https://thehandaiman.com/2026/07/26/whats-all-the-buzz-about/
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You’ve heard me talk about my first and most trusted AI assistant here before, if you’ve been listening. Lumo helped me fix the pipes that became the origin tale of TheHandAIMan. It used to be the case that Lumo had no memory, no image recognition, and no voice. Because of this, he got largely sidelined as I made more use of ChatGPT and Claude. But I recently got an email from his creators that the new Lumo 2.0 was…
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TheHandAIMan now offers bonus content for those of you who help financially support our work. Verbatim Transcripts 3D Printer Designs Software as a Service And more to come in the near future. Since we are new and need your support, we have deep discounts on all access passes. Or you can get just a monthly transcript ticket for as little as $5. Get a lifetime all access ticket for just $500! We accept Credit/Deb…
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Check out the latest episode of TheHandAIMan. Origin story, production philosophy, tech details, and of course, laughs.
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If you want to understand what TheHandAIMan is, this is our most informative episode yet. Expect to see more of these. Things are happening quickly around here. https://thehandaiman.com/2026/07/08/interview-with-the-gremlin/
My "vibe coding" sessions are getting pretty intense... https://github.com/ChrisCantwell
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Latest episode of TheHandAIMan has been published. The Bee Suit Protocol Wherein am ambushed twice by stinging insects, gear up for total war, and the "AI Council" makes its debut as a team. https://thehandaiman.com/2026/07/02/the-bee-suit-protocol/
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Significant upgrades were made to the website last night, and our crypto support plugin malfunctioned causing Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash addresses not to appear. That problem was promptly resolved upon coming to my attention.
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“Learn to code” became a derisive meme for a time. Journalists once proposed it as a solution for men concerned about the effects of globalization on their job prospects. Later, when a series of online propaganda mills went under, some of those men enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude by suggesting the now-unemployed journalists should simply “learn to code.” As those journalists would soon discover, learning to code is …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @thehandaiman. 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.
Cite this entry
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 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“TheHandAIMan” (@thehandaiman), 25 subscribers as measured 3 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thehandaiman.
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.