#dired
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #dired from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #dired
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-23 23:12 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-23 23:12 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-23 23:12 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~21380 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 21:00
Languages: English (36) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · German (1) · Chinese (China) (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
Finally, I ended my writing about how I'm using Dired in the Emacs. With some configuration examples. Tried to not just write about ELisp code, but also give some examples, how I'm using it in the real life. This is a first blogpost, prepar
I like to switch from my terminal to magit or dired in my emacs I have a made a zsh function that works to launch a function in emacs and focus it: function _emacs_action() { emacsclient -u --eval "($1)" (( $+commands[osascript] )) && osasc
I was just looking at “man ls” (as one should) and found this. So ls has a special flag for #dired #emacs ?
What “dired” means
WikipediaDired is a computer program for editing file system directories. It typically runs inside the Emacs text editor as a specialized mode, though standalone versions have been written. Dired was one of the first file managers, or visual editors of file system information. The first version of Dired was written as a stand-alone program independently in 1972 by Dave Lebling at Project MAC, and circa 1974 by Stan Kugell at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). It was incorporated into
“Dired” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#dired across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #dired straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/dired