20 Sept 2022, 21:52 UTC794 viewsread 8 August 2026
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Zero Dereference
@zerodereference
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
135subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001210930465 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @zerodereference |
| Created | 15 October 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 8 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/zerodereference |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2026, 03:17 | 135 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 10:13 | 134 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 23:46 | 135 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:57 | 135 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 6 November 2021 — 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 20 September 2022. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
6 Jun 2022, 21:53 UTC944 viewsread 8 August 2026
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20 Feb 2022, 20:09 UTC≈1,150 viewsread 8 August 2026
In his finished series of posts Max Bernstein shows how to write a Lisp interpreter in OCaml. He also has an ongoing series on compiling Lisp to x86 machine code. #plt #lisp #compilers #ocaml
6 Feb 2022, 17:57 UTC≈1,100 viewsread 8 August 2026
Alexander Zolotov (Night Radio) released his song as a simple C program with a single dependency on libSDL2. All synthesizers and sound effects are implemented directly in the program. Alexander is known for his SunVox and other good programs focused on composing music and computer graphics. #dsp #synth #c #programming
23 Jan 2022, 19:55 UTC≈1,590 viewsread 8 August 2026
Escher Circuits is a visual representation of primitive logic gates that allows you to perform computing by following the circuit with your eyes. It uses the inner nature of human visual perception. #lowtech #cs #logic
10 Jan 2022, 21:10 UTC748 viewsread 8 August 2026
Time goes by, things change. It turns out that Rochus has implemented a mono-backend for Oberon+ and recommends using it by default instead of LuaJIT.
10 Jan 2022, 21:01 UTC639 viewsread 8 August 2026
Rochus Keller is a guy who tends to implement various old programming languages. He has lots of projects on GitHub. All of his projects have three things in common: 1. They use LuaJIT bytecode as a target language 2. They include not only compilers but also full-featured IDEs with debuggers 3. They are written in C++ with Qt. Rochus has created such development environments for Smalltalk-80, Simula, Som, Algol-60, …
28 Dec 2021, 21:46 UTC531 viewsread 8 August 2026
PlanckForth is a FORTH-like programming language bootstrapped from a hand-crafted ELF-binary. Just pass planck.xxd through the xxd command-line tool and get an x86 executable. Then bootstrap.fs can be loaded to get a familiar FORTH environment with long keywords, arrays, hash tables, and strings. Let me remind you of another minimal FORTH compiler called StoneKnifeForth. It uses one-letter keywords and can be bootst…
21 Dec 2021, 21:03 UTC474 viewsread 8 August 2026
IOCCC (The International Obfuscated C Code Contest) is a well-known annual event for system programmers who know how to make any C code unreadable. You may know some winners of the contest and their programs. For example, Fabrice Bellard and his otcc which later became the Tiny C Compiler (tcc). But today I would like to recall an entry submitted by Gavin Barraclough, a multitasking operating system equipped with a…
13 Dec 2021, 21:14 UTC407 viewsread 8 August 2026
I read once that the best programming language is two programming languages. I don’t remember who this phrase belongs to, but it’s true. There is always code that needs serious optimization. But there is also a code that is used as glue. This code doesn't need to be very fast. Usually, most of the code in a project is glue code. There is a family of programming languages that are used in cases where high-performanc…
8 Dec 2021, 20:47 UTC434 viewsread 8 August 2026
Typically, hand-computed ciphers are very simple and easy to break. They are interesting only from a historical perspective. LC4 (ElsieFour) is different. This low-tech stream cipher is well designed to be difficult to break. The cipher allows to encrypt and decrypt messages without any computing device, using only pen and paper. A simple handmade wooden appliance can greatly simplify the routines required for encr…
5 Dec 2021, 15:55 UTC371 viewsread 8 August 2026
By the way, Klange's resume is also an executable image of his operating system. Try putting this PDF (~18 MiB) as a CD image in Qemu.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @zerodereference. 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 29 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Zero Dereference” (@zerodereference), 135 subscribers as measured 29 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/zerodereference.
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.