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How Apps Are Built - 5: Programming Languages in 2015 with Dion Almaer

Education — Much happened in 2015 and Dion and I talk about it
Educationest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Jul 10, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
9
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
0
Press mentions
tracked coverage · not in source
2
Functional tags
observed attributes · real

HTTP liveness

real
9 probes · Jun 16, 2026Jul 10, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Pulse Index

real

Insufficient observed signals for a Pulse Index — it needs at least two of four signal families. This product has 1.

HTTP probes9 on record
Press mentionsnone
GitHub velocityno fresh snapshot
Web traffic (Tranco)unranked

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

How Apps Are Built - 5: Programming Languages in 2015 with Dion Almaer's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Jul 10, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 2 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisPulseFamilies
Software Engineering Daily - Solar Investment and Architectural Strategyeducationsimilar40.01/4
Epicenter Bitcoin - 101: Ryan Shea & Muneeb Alieducationsimilar8.01/4
O'Reilly Bots Podcast - What are bots? Here's the background.educationsimilar40.01/4
Talking Machines - Solving intelligence and machine learning fundamentalseducationsimilar1.92/4
Podcast.__init__ Episode 42 - SymPy with Aaron Meurereducationsimilar0.01/4
O'Reilly Hardware - The Hidden Complexity of Power Supplieseducationsimilar8.01/4
Bytemarks Cafe #416: Venomous Creatureseducationsimilar40.01/4
The Twenty Minute VC - Founders Friday with Daniel van Binsbergen, Founder @ Lexooeducationsimilar30.41/4

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Pulse is the observed-activity index real; a dash means the comparable has no observed signal families.

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.