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New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:01:18 +0000

Thank you

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:31:06 +0000

People often do their 10 minutes of daily fata.dev during their commute where mobile/offline access is ideal. The UX is optimized for mobile but you can also do it on your computer, it's a progressive web app that is installable as a desktop app:

https://fata.app

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:15:53 +0000

I do ~10 minutes per day, wouldn't really make a difference in my AI productivity boost calculation (which 10-20% boost BTW)

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:13:39 +0000

Completely agree and I tried to avoid the Duolingo approach which optimizes for "engagement" over learning. I would love to hear any feedback you have after using the app for a bit: djoume [at] fata.dev

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:12:23 +0000

Very nice! I went with a different approach so that 1) I could make it usable on a phone and 2) It could work with any programming language/framework

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:08:23 +0000

Thank you. Try out this course and let me know what you think

https://fata.app/courses/archClean

For me I found that I learn best when I have a concrete use case.

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:52:20 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I agree that people have tendencies towards certain interests, I can't remember a time where I wasn't interested about computers, even long before I had access to one.

That being said, people are also inspired by other people or by products, and there are ways to make the learning more effective.

No tools is going to turn you into a good engineer, fata makes it easier to practice regularly and it's that practice that will make you improve your skills

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:50:48 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. What similar app are you thinking of?

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:50:13 +0000

Does not happen often but now and then my basic x86/arm asm skills have been helpful to debug or just understand at a deeper level how something works.

New comment by djoume in "Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding"

djoume — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:47:11 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated, will fix the copy.

New comment by djoume in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

djoume — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:20:08 +0000

Rust, Go, Typescript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, React, Dart, CSS for now. Rails is almost done, Django, fast API, JVM languages coming soon after.

You can try the first module of any course without login, all beginners courses are free after login, a subscription is required for advanced courses

New comment by djoume in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

djoume — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:06:41 +0000

I'm working on a Duolingo for programming languages and framework. Unlike Duolingo it's a real space repetition system

https://fata.dev

Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

djoume — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:57:03 +0000

Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've been coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months.

It's been amazing to vibe code prototypes in any stack, but when it comes to building something reliable/scalable, I couldn't effectively guide the agent unless I knew the technology. And the scariest part is that I'm seeing a lot of my technical skills decreasing due to AI coding.

Reflecting on my journey, I also worry about how the new "AI native" generation of software developer is going to acquire technical depth.

So I built fata.dev: short daily spaced-repetition sessions for programming skills (Rust, CSS, React, Python, TypeScript, Architecture).

You can try it in the browser with no signup: https://fata.app/courses

It's an offline-first mobile app built with Capacitor, RxDB and Firebase. The first courses were painfully written by hand, but most content is now AI-generated. It takes about 3000 LLM calls to generate a course, and every code samples goes through compilation, linting, unit testing, AI and a final manual review.

Would very much appreciate any feedback on the product & website, what works and what could be better. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489163

Points: 65

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Painless multiple repository management

djoume — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:22:52 +0000

Article URL: http://developers.freshbooks.com/blog/2012/07/26/painless-multiple-repository-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4296815

Points: 1

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