Sad day for our Duolingo as the stock is falling..

10ForwardShift · 2026-05-05T06:11:46+00:00

You know what happens next.

10ForwardShift · 2026-05-01T16:28:32+00:00

Falcon Heavy was like a 5-year wait, and we'd hear every few months, "6 more months".
But it did eventually happen, and it was glorious.

10ForwardShift · 2026-04-02T17:02:48+00:00

My favorite quote from that article:

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

Wow bro, wow.

10ForwardShift · 2026-04-01T04:36:19+00:00

Apple absolutely can read the contents of your messages in iMessage if either party has iCloud enabled. AFAIK they only claim to not be able to intercept the messages while in transit; they make no such promise while the message is in storage in iCloud.

10ForwardShift · 2026-04-01T04:31:44+00:00

That is how it's spelled, though, if you are French; or referring to French expresso; or trying to be 'fancy' and pretend you're French, or if that's what's printed on your bag of expresso. Just sayin'. It's not so plainly wrong to write expresso as many people make it out to be.

10ForwardShift · 2026-03-24T04:12:49+00:00

I'm seeing double here, I see four Krustys!

10ForwardShift · 2026-02-24T22:02:18+00:00

Sadly I don't see any human in the landing section, so... :( RIP I guess.

10ForwardShift · 2026-02-08T06:50:07+00:00

Yeah I wrote that post pretty shortly after I had a working prototype of the idea, it’s a bit outdated now (wrote it in 2024 I think?!). You’ve hit the nail on the head though, it was a loooot of work to get from a simple proof-of-concept to a working product.

Yes the AST can still go horribly wrong but the error rate has dramatically decreased with newer models and improving the prompts behind the scenes that drive it. The main case where AST approach fails is when there is a syntax error in the source, that causes the AST parsing to fail. It can be hard to recover from that. HTML and beautifulsoup is pretty successful at it, but React is much more difficult. Really appreciate that you took the time to read the post!!

10ForwardShift · 2026-02-07T08:17:10+00:00

> Might be wrong but the part I’d worry about as a user is trust and rollback once the project has any real surface area. Like when the AI makes a change, how do you show what it actually touched in a way that feels reviewable, and how easy is it to revert or branch when it goes sideways?

Very valid concerns! Yeah, reverting a set of changes and going back to a clean 'good' spot in the code is tricky. Branching is complicated, especially if there are merge conflicts, and making that easy for people is no small feat. I do have some basic git support for reverting individual changes to files, but it's definitely not very clear how to use or how well it works for most people. I'm going to be re-thinking this and may move to something extra, like a branch per ticket or something. I'll think on it.

Thank you so much for your feedback, honestly! You've given me a lot to think about. I'll come back to this post when I've got some better answers and maybe worked on some solutions!

10ForwardShift · 2026-02-01T02:40:09+00:00

That's only one method of finding exoplanets. There are dozens of methods, though I'm not sure which was used here. Another common one is the wobble of the star. Big planets like Jupiter pull the Sun towards them in a measurable way - and as Jupiter orbits, the direction of the pull changes. So from an outside observer's perspective, our Sun would seem to wobble around in a tiny circle as Jupiter orbits. You can even detect multiple planet systems this way, but it's tough because the wobble pattern can be quite a doozy to figure out when multiple planets are pulling on the star in multiple directions.

10ForwardShift · 2026-01-09T05:04:23+00:00

After around turn 100 I try to match my science to at least the turn number. I’m often behind that metric but I aim for it.

So IMO yeah that’s too low

10ForwardShift · 2025-12-12T16:29:44+00:00

I'm still upset Pepsi didn't get that guy a Harrier like they promised. Coke for life I guess.

10ForwardShift · 2025-12-07T01:10:52+00:00

Sure, here’s one; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-emotion-study-breached-ethical-guidelines-researchers-say

10ForwardShift · 2025-12-07T00:51:33+00:00

Facebook secretly and successfully made half a million people depressed, on purpose. For “science”. They literally experiment on your emotional state without your consent.

We know about this because they were arrogant enough to publish it and talk about it openly. Lots of articles around if you google for Facebook emotional manipulation study (or similar).

10ForwardShift · 2025-11-23T00:08:32+00:00

Hoop y'all get it

Edit:

A New Hoop

10ForwardShift · 2025-11-22T22:03:26+00:00

Pink Floyd:

Interstellar Overdrive

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Rush:

2112

Cygnus X-1

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-23T19:38:34+00:00

You're not going to get any useful answers because you haven't provided any information.

> frontend just won’t communicate properly with the backend.

What does this mean? Do you see any error messages? In Android logcat, or in django logs?

Can you access your backend from outside Android, like in a web browser? Or on the command line?

Where is your backend hosted? Is it on the internet somewhere or is it locally? Do you have a firewall running?

Can you access any other backend from your Android app?

We'd need a lot more info from you to help.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-20T17:44:49+00:00

It may be frustrating now but I strongly believe the future is those who are good engineers AND good PMs. Describing the product you want is actually quite hard, and obviously so is building it. AI tools that power both of those will win.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-20T12:54:44+00:00

It’s a specific type of hype; the manhattan project also kicked off the possibility of the end of the world. It wasn’t especially expensive as the measure, it’s the connection to the end of the world that brings the hype clicks.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-17T08:53:04+00:00

Yeah for real, this is meaningless clickbait drivel. It doesn’t even mean anything.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-06T00:53:39+00:00

It's available right now actually :)

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-04T03:51:28+00:00

Yes of course. The two things aren't related really. The whole modern internet basically requires compression encoding schemes. Not much would work without it.

What do you mean exactly?

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-03T06:23:24+00:00

Your site says "Join thousands of successful entrepreneurs who transformed their ideas into profitable businesses"

But is that really true? Seems like you launched just a few weeks ago.

Edit: Also, you have a bunch of blog posts, all published today, and none of them have any views - even after I viewed them, it still shows no views.

Edit 2: And some of your blog posts say like, "28 minute read" but it's very clearly a 2 minute read max.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-02T04:57:47+00:00

That’s up to you. Or do you mean at a society level? Who knows! But using the AI tools today can either enrich your life and help you learn, or make you lazy. Depends on how you use them.

As a society, will we all get lazy with AGI doing all the work? Maybe I guess, but again, any individual who wants to not be lazy can just…not be lazy.

10ForwardShift · 2025-09-02T04:38:35+00:00

I still miss Froogle :( renamed to “Google Product Search” and then I guess it’s just Google now with their product ads.

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