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by ihid 2mo ago
Yeah - Jiki is designed to equip you to be a modern developer: 1. Learn to code (because you still need to know how) 2. Learn how to do agentic coding and how all the technology you interact with day-to-day works beyond code (which is 90% o
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by ihid 2y ago
Exactly. Thank you. Also, I'm using the new thing to keep exercism funded. But even if I wasn't, your post would be entirely true!
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by ihid 2y ago
Hello. You'll get an email after a day telling you about it, and you'll get a banner after you've submitted a couple of exercises :)
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by ihid 2y ago
Thanks so much for your support :)
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by ihid 2y ago
I've replied to this further down. Exercism is a nonprofit - we have no shareholders. We've had many large organisations donate to us (including Mozilla and Google) who have vetted all this.
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by ihid 2y ago
Thanks, yeah. New product will hopefully mean I can keep funding and growing exercism. They're very synergistic and will support each other.
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by ihid 2y ago
Thank you so much for commenting. Always awesome to hear about from the people exercism has helped.
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by ihid 2y ago
> And other times, you're doing something really good that's just not going to get you paid. This. I feel that this has been missed in the thread a little.
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by ihid 2y ago
Hello. Blog post author and Exercism co-founder here. Thanks for all the comments, especially those kind supportive ones. I've replied to a few, but I thought it would making a couple of general points for context. 1. I feel something
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by ihid 2y ago
We're not shutting down :) But yes, rather than shutting down, I'd probably just put the whole thing behind a paywall to try and keep it alive.
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by ihid 2y ago
It takes people about a month to work through a language track, learn the language, and get on with their life. So I wouldn't expect to have more than 45k MAU. 70k MAU is because people LIKE the site and come back to learn another la
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by ihid 2y ago
Done, although I emailed the email in your profile. I'll send it to that one too :)
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by ihid 2y ago
No problem. Thanks for acknowledging that! :)
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by ihid 2y ago
It's also worth pointing out the Exercism isn't for coding newbies - it's for developers learning new languages. This often gets missed.
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by ihid 2y ago
We're paying ~$1k/month for all our webservers (which is a dozen ECS instances). They're handling about 3,000 requests per second (but that does sometimes massively spike to tens of thousands if not more). We're paying ~
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by ihid 2y ago
We're not really part of the "leetcode industry". People have used Exercism to learn new programming languages for a decade. We've deliberately not wanted to become a place of competition or a recruitment space. We'
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by ihid 2y ago
Thanks :)
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by ihid 2y ago
We have about 70,000 MAU. People tend to spend an intense few weeks learning a language, then disappear for a year. Then come back and learn another language. A large part of the 2M is still "alive" (I don't know exactly what
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by ihid 2y ago
Hello :) Appreciate the comment. If you have thoughts on that, I'd love to hear them here: https://forum.exercism.org/t/exercism-teams-coming-soon/1266...
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by ihid 2y ago
Thank you for being so kind and supportive. I really appreciate your comment. I'm ok. I'm hopeful for the future. I believe there's lots of amazing stuff we can do and that Exercism has a great future. But right now it's
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by ihid 2y ago
Hello. This isn't actually correct. Exercism is a Company Limited by Guarantee. It has no shareholders. It can't pay dividends. Community Interest Companies do have sharedholders and can pay dividends. CIC's are definitely no
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14 ways to Reverse a String [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ihid 3y ago|0 comments
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14 Increasingly strange ways to solve "Hello World"(exercism.org)
1 points by ihid 3y ago|0 comments
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Exercism's #48in24 Challenge(exercism.org)
18 points by ihid 3y ago|2 comments
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by ihid 3y ago
Exercism has a new annual challenge for 2024. This year we're focussing on digging deeper into the languages you use day-to-day rather than trying new languages. Each week we'll be launching a different programming challenge, with
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A reflection on Exercism's #12in23 from someone who completed it(exercism.org)
2 points by ihid 3y ago|1 comments
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by ihid 3y ago
Last year, Exercism ran a challenge to try 12 different programming languages through the year. @xavdid was one of only a few hundred people that managed to complete it. This is his experience.
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by ihid 6y ago
Exercism co-founder here. We get bots spamming the site in every way possible if we don't have a recaptcha. Happy to accept other suggestions for stopping bots signing up if you have any more ethical alternatives that are as an effecti
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That Exercism sucks (and how we're fixing them)(youtube.com)
2 points by ihid 6y ago|0 comments
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What's Next for Exercism?(exercism.io)
9 points by ihid 7y ago|0 comments

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