[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @unclebobmartin Uncle Bob Martin Uncle Bob Martin posts on X about just a, edinburgh, if you, the world the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1342 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::9505092/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +8.40% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +19% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::9505092/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +104% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::9505092/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX -X% - X Month XXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXX +1.80% - X Year XXXXXXX +11% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::9505092/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) **Social topic influence** [just a](/topic/just-a), [edinburgh](/topic/edinburgh), [if you](/topic/if-you), [the world](/topic/the-world), [the clean](/topic/the-clean), [cairo](/topic/cairo), [linkedin](/topic/linkedin), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [finish](/topic/finish), [status](/topic/status) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@youtube](/creator/undefined) [@jurgenappelo](/creator/undefined) [@nilostolte](/creator/undefined) [@christingorman](/creator/undefined) [@theprimeagen](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@alexbunardzic](/creator/undefined) [@mikegeldredge](/creator/undefined) [@antoniosarosi](/creator/undefined) [@janetacarr](/creator/undefined) [@gradybooch](/creator/undefined) [@dnwiebe](/creator/undefined) [@cfdevelop](/creator/undefined) [@sigfualt](/creator/undefined) [@mitsuhiko](/creator/undefined) [@dhh](/creator/undefined) [@eloffd](/creator/undefined) [@ssteps](/creator/undefined) [@cennydavidsson](/creator/undefined) [@burns66675164](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Got cloverage to work with speclj (cloverage is a test coverage tool for clojure). Grok failed to find the problem but my human pair partner (my son) helped me find it. Just a dumb version bug" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996326074431766553) 2025-12-03T21:10Z 224.1K followers, 6251 engagements "Bjarne was coding in Simula XX in Aarhus and later in Edinburgh. He loved the organizational capabilities of the language but hated the performance. When hired by Bell Labs in the late 70s he started coding in C. But he missed the organizational power of Simula. So he wrote a little preprocessor in C that made C look like Simula. He called it C with classes. Others at the labs started using it. In 1983 someone suggested the name C++. It stuck" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1993729911639662629) 2025-11-26T17:13Z 224.1K followers, 14.3K engagements "If you think marriage and children are expensive you are valuing the wrong things" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1994559927764095114) 2025-11-29T00:11Z 224.1K followers, 25.1K engagements "The demand for programmers has been increasing exponentially for over fifty years. The number of programmers doubles every five years or so. This means that half the programmers in the world have less than five years experience. Programmers with twenty years experience are 1/16 of the total" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1995129745575464962) 2025-11-30T13:56Z 224.1K followers, 39.8K engagements "Live streamcast. "The Clean Code Legacy". 📅 Date:Tuesday December 16th Time:5:00 PM Cairo Time (UTC+2) / 9:00 AM Central Time 🎥 Platform:Well stream live using StreamYard 🔗 StreamYard Link: 🌍 Live on: LinkedIn YouTube" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1995872179238355094) 2025-12-02T15:06Z 224.1K followers, 5013 engagements "@kylecordes @phillennium Get the model right -- then put a UI on it" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996944777204351066) 2025-12-05T14:08Z 224.1K followers, XX engagements "A brief intro to Clean Code Second Edition" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1988646229618946417) 2025-11-12T16:33Z 224.1K followers, 40.2K engagements "The key to happiness: X. Finish High School. X. Get a job (or join military). X. Get married young. X. Have lots of kids. Electives: XXX pay for two years of community college with that job you got. Do not delay points X & X. Do not take out a student loan. XXXX If absolutely necessary complete a bachelors degree. Get your employer to pay for it. Never take out a student loan. XXX If an advanced degree would enhance your position get your employer to pay for it. No student loans ever" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1994409770359693765) 2025-11-28T14:15Z 224.1K followers, 21.1K engagements "Im writing a fun little display board app for my local flight school. It queries a bunch of aviation services and a reservation system to put up an old time airport display of current and scheduled flights along with weather and local airport status. During early development I used a relaxed testing discipline. For the algorithmic stuff I used strict TDD. For the comms and GUI stuff I used quick print statements and my eyes. This was a productive strategy. It allowed me to quickly fiddle with the GUI format and experiment with the (always ambiguous) service APIs. Now however as the GUI format" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1994784508563132738) 2025-11-29T15:04Z 224.1K followers, 24.8K engagements "using grok to debug things is pretty funny. A paraphrase of my last session. Me: "Here's the issue." Grok: "Your problem is clear. Do this." Me: "Nope got this error message ." Grok: Ah yes I see it now. This will fix it." Me: "Nope here's a different error message." Grok: "You're doing it wrong." Me: "Thanks. Bye."" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1995984350844776519) 2025-12-02T22:32Z 224.1K followers, 20.5K engagements "I know I know. Were all supposed to believe that the burning of fossil fuels is baking the planet under Bill Nyes blowtorch. I mean the science is settled right Al And yet Im looking at more than a foot of snow that fell in late November in a region that has seen only XX white christmases in the last XX years. Youd think that if Nyes blowtorch were raging that wed see fewer and fewer. But theres no real trend at all. 1970s - X 1980s - X 1990s - X 2000s - X Since - X probably X. So whats up Bill" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996206664869896356) 2025-12-03T13:15Z 224.1K followers, 20.3K engagements "Grok-cli is pretty cool. Not perfect. Really horrible UI. But I loved telling it to write a test for some function and having it do all the work. I just had to read it over and fix the mistakes and delete the useless tests. (It likes tests that test themselves but not the application)" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996622808399397047) 2025-12-04T16:49Z 224.1K followers, 11.7K engagements "grok-cli did a splendid job of modifying my app to convert synchronous http/get calls in the drawing loop into an asynchronous process. Nice. I was able to prompt it using directives that I would give a junior engineer. It made some dumb mistakes but was able to fix them. I had to fix some of them. Then with only one small thing left to do grok lost it's mind and started introducing bizarre errors. In the end it was 'git reset --hard' and all grok's work was lost. I spent so much time on those prompts I think I could have done the task my myself in half the time" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996734975899504677) 2025-12-05T00:14Z 224.1K followers, 9760 engagements "@randomrecruiter Senior engineers who cannot articulate the basics are not senior engineers" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996913325234704813) 2025-12-05T12:03Z 224.1K followers, 13.1K engagements "Me: grok please isolate all calls to Http/get into an asynchronous process to get them out of the UI drawing loop. Grok: OK. No problem. Heres the change. Me: Nice work grok. Um you fixed one of them but there are two more. Grok: Oh yeah. Youre right. Here let me fix that. Me: You fixed one of them but theres still one left its in the getXYZ function. Grok: No its not. Me: Grok look closer. Can you see how it calls par/getBlob Grok: Yes I see that now. Ok give me a second or two.There Ive fixed it. Me: thank you but now a test is failing. Heres the error Grok yeah thats because I forgot to" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996918918745620730) 2025-12-05T12:25Z 224.1K followers, 31.3K engagements "Morning bathrobe rant. Grok-cli" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1996924564568166863) 2025-12-05T12:48Z 224.1K followers, 8922 engagements "Very cold drive home. Battery range reduced on first leg by XX% or so because temps were below 10F. XX min charge and then outdoor temps steadily climbed to 28F and range returned to normal. Cold batteries dont like to push power" [X Link](https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1998093520524194236) 2025-12-08T18:13Z 224.1K followers, 4752 engagements
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@unclebobmartin Uncle Bob MartinUncle Bob Martin posts on X about just a, edinburgh, if you, the world the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1342 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence travel destinations social networks technology brands
Social topic influence just a, edinburgh, if you, the world, the clean, cairo, linkedin, youtube, finish, status
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @youtube @jurgenappelo @nilostolte @christingorman @theprimeagen @elonmusk @alexbunardzic @mikegeldredge @antoniosarosi @janetacarr @gradybooch @dnwiebe @cfdevelop @sigfualt @mitsuhiko @dhh @eloffd @ssteps @cennydavidsson @burns66675164
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Got cloverage to work with speclj (cloverage is a test coverage tool for clojure). Grok failed to find the problem but my human pair partner (my son) helped me find it. Just a dumb version bug"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:10Z 224.1K followers, 6251 engagements
"Bjarne was coding in Simula XX in Aarhus and later in Edinburgh. He loved the organizational capabilities of the language but hated the performance. When hired by Bell Labs in the late 70s he started coding in C. But he missed the organizational power of Simula. So he wrote a little preprocessor in C that made C look like Simula. He called it C with classes. Others at the labs started using it. In 1983 someone suggested the name C++. It stuck"
X Link 2025-11-26T17:13Z 224.1K followers, 14.3K engagements
"If you think marriage and children are expensive you are valuing the wrong things"
X Link 2025-11-29T00:11Z 224.1K followers, 25.1K engagements
"The demand for programmers has been increasing exponentially for over fifty years. The number of programmers doubles every five years or so. This means that half the programmers in the world have less than five years experience. Programmers with twenty years experience are 1/16 of the total"
X Link 2025-11-30T13:56Z 224.1K followers, 39.8K engagements
"Live streamcast. "The Clean Code Legacy". 📅 Date:Tuesday December 16th Time:5:00 PM Cairo Time (UTC+2) / 9:00 AM Central Time 🎥 Platform:Well stream live using StreamYard 🔗 StreamYard Link: 🌍 Live on: LinkedIn YouTube"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:06Z 224.1K followers, 5013 engagements
"@kylecordes @phillennium Get the model right -- then put a UI on it"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:08Z 224.1K followers, XX engagements
"A brief intro to Clean Code Second Edition"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:33Z 224.1K followers, 40.2K engagements
"The key to happiness: X. Finish High School. X. Get a job (or join military). X. Get married young. X. Have lots of kids. Electives: XXX pay for two years of community college with that job you got. Do not delay points X & X. Do not take out a student loan. XXXX If absolutely necessary complete a bachelors degree. Get your employer to pay for it. Never take out a student loan. XXX If an advanced degree would enhance your position get your employer to pay for it. No student loans ever"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:15Z 224.1K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Im writing a fun little display board app for my local flight school. It queries a bunch of aviation services and a reservation system to put up an old time airport display of current and scheduled flights along with weather and local airport status. During early development I used a relaxed testing discipline. For the algorithmic stuff I used strict TDD. For the comms and GUI stuff I used quick print statements and my eyes. This was a productive strategy. It allowed me to quickly fiddle with the GUI format and experiment with the (always ambiguous) service APIs. Now however as the GUI format"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:04Z 224.1K followers, 24.8K engagements
"using grok to debug things is pretty funny. A paraphrase of my last session. Me: "Here's the issue." Grok: "Your problem is clear. Do this." Me: "Nope got this error message ." Grok: Ah yes I see it now. This will fix it." Me: "Nope here's a different error message." Grok: "You're doing it wrong." Me: "Thanks. Bye.""
X Link 2025-12-02T22:32Z 224.1K followers, 20.5K engagements
"I know I know. Were all supposed to believe that the burning of fossil fuels is baking the planet under Bill Nyes blowtorch. I mean the science is settled right Al And yet Im looking at more than a foot of snow that fell in late November in a region that has seen only XX white christmases in the last XX years. Youd think that if Nyes blowtorch were raging that wed see fewer and fewer. But theres no real trend at all. 1970s - X 1980s - X 1990s - X 2000s - X Since - X probably X. So whats up Bill"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:15Z 224.1K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Grok-cli is pretty cool. Not perfect. Really horrible UI. But I loved telling it to write a test for some function and having it do all the work. I just had to read it over and fix the mistakes and delete the useless tests. (It likes tests that test themselves but not the application)"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:49Z 224.1K followers, 11.7K engagements
"grok-cli did a splendid job of modifying my app to convert synchronous http/get calls in the drawing loop into an asynchronous process. Nice. I was able to prompt it using directives that I would give a junior engineer. It made some dumb mistakes but was able to fix them. I had to fix some of them. Then with only one small thing left to do grok lost it's mind and started introducing bizarre errors. In the end it was 'git reset --hard' and all grok's work was lost. I spent so much time on those prompts I think I could have done the task my myself in half the time"
X Link 2025-12-05T00:14Z 224.1K followers, 9760 engagements
"@randomrecruiter Senior engineers who cannot articulate the basics are not senior engineers"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:03Z 224.1K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Me: grok please isolate all calls to Http/get into an asynchronous process to get them out of the UI drawing loop. Grok: OK. No problem. Heres the change. Me: Nice work grok. Um you fixed one of them but there are two more. Grok: Oh yeah. Youre right. Here let me fix that. Me: You fixed one of them but theres still one left its in the getXYZ function. Grok: No its not. Me: Grok look closer. Can you see how it calls par/getBlob Grok: Yes I see that now. Ok give me a second or two.There Ive fixed it. Me: thank you but now a test is failing. Heres the error Grok yeah thats because I forgot to"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:25Z 224.1K followers, 31.3K engagements
"Morning bathrobe rant. Grok-cli"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:48Z 224.1K followers, 8922 engagements
"Very cold drive home. Battery range reduced on first leg by XX% or so because temps were below 10F. XX min charge and then outdoor temps steadily climbed to 28F and range returned to normal. Cold batteries dont like to push power"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:13Z 224.1K followers, 4752 engagements
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