Medium “Programming” tag statistics
How busy the Programming tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 2.7 days
Busier than 84% of 73 tracked tags
30% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 297 stories a day, Programming is busier than 84% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (47,366 followers per daily story) is higher than 58% of tags — more readers per story than average.
48% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 30% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 55% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 7.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Programming stories
| Publication | Followers | Programming stories (last 2.7d) |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 89 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 68 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 61 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 49 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 47 |
| MobileByteSensei | 10 | 22 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 11 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 10 |
| Data Science in Your Pocket | 10K | 9 |
| The AI Brief | 172 | 9 |
Top Programming stories right now
- The Math Trick That Turns an Infinite Decimal Into a Fraction
- What You have to Learn First as a Junior .NET Developer in 2026
- My PM Started Vibe Coding Last Month. Now Every Feature Should Take an Hour.
- Vibe Coding Works Best When You Already Know What Good Looks Like
- Making a Nuclear Experiment with Python, Fan, and a Sock
- Your Closed-Source App Is No Longer Safe.
- NVIDIA GPU Ecosystem, Simply Explained
- The Micro-Database Era is Officially Doomed (And Turing Award Winner Michael Stonebraker Warned Us)
- Bye Bye Go, Hello Rust
- Stop Shipping Zone.js: What Angular 22’s OnPush-by-Default Actually Changes
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Programming tag on Medium?
- About 297 per day (2,079 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 2.7-day window before our last scan. The tag has 458,114 stories in total.
- Is the Programming tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 84% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 47,366 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Programming?
- 30% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 48% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.