April was a wild ride. We laughed, we coded, we may have cried over AI hallucinations, and — if Medium stats are to be believed — we definitely got our read on.
📊 The Stats We’re Quietly Bragging About
Medium was doing hot girl math:
- Views: up 62%
- Reads: up 59%
- Followers: up 14%
- Leading the popularity contest was “Swagger vs. ReDoc: The Ultimate Showdown of API Documentation Titans” — which finally took the crown from “10 Politically Incorrect Jokes That Will Make You Laugh” after its six-month reign. The sass of Swagger prevailed.
Blog.lumaiere.com was… mellow:
- Page views: down 1%
- Blog views: down 2%
- Users: down 10%
- But not all was lost! “The Art of Saying Sorry: History’s Best Apologies and What We Can Learn From Them” reclaimed the top spot after a brief demotion. Meanwhile, “The Meaning of Life: A Cosmic Joke or a Deep Truth?” made a surprise leaderboard debut. Existential dread: trending!
X.com (formerly known as That Bird App):
- Impressions: down 6%
- Likes: down 68% (ouch)
- Engagements: down 30%
- But Followers: up 33% (hello new friends!)
- The most viewed post? “2025 Private Spaceflight Gossip: Rockets, Rivalries, and Milestones” — which proves once and for all that everyone secretly wants to be an astronaut. A close second was the not-at-all-real “ChatGPT Is Lying Its Ass Off! Don’t Believe This Blog Ever!.”
Facebook (we only started tracking in March):
- Views: down 76%
- Reach: down 52%
- Followers: up 4%
- Interactions: flat
- Clicks: down 67%
- Visits: down 98%
- Still, we had some visual wins: the most viewed post was original art:
https://www.facebook.com/DaveLumAI/posts/pfbid02EXTt4ppT288AGzDsGJoUcu7NZkEZyQQFENWk3wLx2vj1vfvHdM8K9koBNEL1673Gl
And second place was a surprising deep cut:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AJqF2TkZK/ — the Richest Man in Babylon lives on.
🧠 What We Covered in April
April’s content calendar had range. Like, Mariah-Carey-octave-range:
- ORM drama in “Django vs Peewee vs Tortoise”
- Deep dives into spacy NLP
- Bananas. Pickleball. More bananas.
- API docs, version conflicts, and how to explain that post
- Themed absurdity in Friday Night Laughs #33 and Rust’s surprising privacy advantages
- GoDaddy PHP gymnastics
- Cold turkey quitting AI hallucinations
- Selling with charm (and possibly some slapping)
Yes, those are all real. Check the receipts.
🔮 What’s Coming in May?
Buckle up. May is going full-stack:
- Software architecture deep dives
- Backend royalty: Django REST, ASGI/WSGI, Gunicorn, Nginx
- Automation showdown: Zapier, Make, IFTTT vs. RPA tools
- ML libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, CUDA, and why your GPU hates you
- Messaging Madness with Kafka’s cousins: Zookeeper, BookKeeper, HiveMQ, Mosquitto
- Database tech including MongoDB vs. MongoEngine, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Cython
- Plus web3 stuff, strange acronyms (OASIS? Qpid?), and… MirrorMaker? That sounds like a D&D artifact.
Let me know what you’re most excited for — or what you’re afraid I’ll write about anyway.
📣 Sound Off, Space Nerds and ORM Queens
Drop a comment if:
- You’re still confused about the Django ORM drama
- You think Swagger is overrated
- You’ve ever hallucinated a banana while debugging
And don’t forget to follow for more AI antics, tech rants, and semi-intentional jokes.
Art Prompt:
A tranquil riverside picnic in dappled sunlight, rendered with soft, pastel tones and gentle brushstrokes reminiscent of Berthe Morisot. Light dances on the rippling water as figures in airy 19th-century dresses lounge under blossoming trees. The mood is serene and wistful, with blurred outlines lending a dreamlike softness to the composition.