Medium tag: Programming
Publishing activity in the Medium tag “Programming”, measured from its public RSS feed. These numbers describe what gets published, not what gets read.
About 365 stories a day are being published in the Medium tag “Programming” (median of 9 feed snapshots over the last 7 days).
At a glance
- Stories per day (estimate)
- 365
- Snapshots behind the estimate
- 9
- Coverage of the last 7 days
- 21%
- Stories collected from this feed, last 7 days
- 73
- Different writers among them
- 62
- Share written by the 5 most frequent writers
- 21%
Coverage — the feed shows only its latest ~10 stories and this tag moves faster than we read it, so the counts of stories and writers are a sample of about 21% of the tag. The per-day figure does not depend on coverage.
Tags writers pair with Programming
Share of 73 recent “Programming” stories that also carry each tag (last 14 days):
- software development 44%
- artificial intelligence 36%
- technology 32%
- software engineering 27%
- coding 15%
- ai 15%
- java 11%
- spring boot 8%
- web development 7%
- data science 7%
Medium allows five tags per story. Tags that often appear together compete for the same readers.
Week by week
| Week of | Stories / day | Snapshots | Stories seen | Writers seen | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 (so far) | 400 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 21% |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 365 | 7 | 57 | 47 | — |
Latest stories collected
- More on Rust’s Oldest Soundness Bug — Enzo Lombardi, rustaceans,
- EVIVORA Cloud Services Introduces a Vision for a Global Digital Cloud Ecosystem — REXX EVIVORA,
- Game Development: Building Worlds People Can’t Put Down — Abubakri Faaruq,
- GitHub Rewrote Copilot in Rust. The 800,000 Lines Aren’t the Impressive Part. — Yusuf Seyitoğlu, python.plainenglish.io,
- The Hidden Cybersecurity Risk Inside Software You Trust — Michaelolowoselu,
- 15 Spring Boot 4 Features That Feel Like Easter Eggs, Each One Run and Verified — Navya Devadiga, boot-camp-java,
- We Taught AI to Write Code. Now We Have to Teach Humans to Read It. — pranavkakde,
- PHP2SHELL: Someone Tried the Attack Four Days Before the World Knew — Abel, technology-hits,
- Following PHP, Java has also been found to have a major security vulnerability! — Umesh Kumar Yadav,
- Our Best Engineer Started Leaving at 5. We Called It a Performance Problem. — Yusuf Seyitoğlu, python.plainenglish.io,
What this does not tell you
Medium's public feeds carry no views, reads, claps or earnings, so a busy tag is not the same as a well-read one: more stories per day also means more competition for the same tag page. A quiet tag may simply have few readers.
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