Myko Nordy

Myko Nordy

@n0rdy.foo

Shipping https://retrek.me to break free from 9-5. And having fun in a process 🙃 More about me: https://myko.n0rdy.foo

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Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Launched pooml.com on Product Hunt today, and immediately started to get shady offers to buy upvotes. These days, whenever you post anything publicly, it gets scrapped in no time, and then you are drowning in the spam. For example, the support emails of my apps get dozens of such emails per week.

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Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Yes, this will kill a lot of fun for the random users. And, yes, this will kill the free marketing channels like social media and cold outreach that help small businesses to compete with the large ones. And many other things...

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

So, we should say "thanks" about that to the dumb folks out there, who keep scrapping the web (or buying the scrapped data) and spamming every public contact they get with their irrelevant or even shady offers.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Launched pooml.com on Product Hunt today, and immediately started to get shady offers to buy upvotes. These days, whenever you post anything publicly, it gets scrapped in no time, and then you are drowning in the spam. For example, the support emails of my apps get dozens of such emails per week.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

My prediction is that days of the "public" internet will be over sooner rather than later. The future will be about private communities with strict face control, ID verification, and rules, where nothing gets leaked.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Had a lot of fun building the avatar creation flow 🙃 Credit to Lisa Wischofsky for her amazing Adventurer artwork

Myko Nordy
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When I discuss video editing with Claude, it always recommends CapCut. So, I asked my LLM friend to check the tool as of 2026. Claude came back with smth interesting from CapCut ToS: they get a license to your content. Even if you pay them. When did this become a norm?

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I launched retrek.me on the App Store a few days ago. Since then, I have received 39 (!) spam emails to the reTrek support inbox with irrelevant cold outreach offers. Have you experienced the same? Whoever does that, it's not cool. Support email exists for the users' support cases.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I wonder if they know that spamming the new products right away is the best way to mess up their delivery rankings in the long run. I'm more than happy to click "Spam" and block the sender, so my email provider bans the abusive domain for everyone 🫡

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Am I the only one with aesthetic pain when seeing things like that? It's not an indie site, btw, but Bing Webmaster Tool...

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

"Only" 3 weeks of Apple review, and retrek.me is on the App Store! Mobile development is indeed a mindset shift after years doing web. Slow but steady, as they say 🐢

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Opus 4.7 has a unique combo of being quite smart but lazy AF at the same time. Given enough context, it can do wonders. But if smth is missing, I get a lot of "good old" ChatGPT 3 vibes with the hallucinations and false claims/assumptions. Opus won't try to find info on its own.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

"Do not be lazy" became a mandatory prompt with this model. A noticeable regression from 4.6 and 4.5 when it comes to this. Do you have a similar experience?

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I've been traveling this week, and ended up in a rental apartment with unsecure WiFi (no password). So I used my phone as a hotspot. On Friday evening, the mobile network started to struggle and went down to 3G, so I had a unique opportunity to test the web of 2026 with 3G internet.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

TLDR: it sucks! 99.99% of websites are way too heavy to load, even the ones I expected to be more or less static, like the GitHub repos, news, and even some landings! I still remember the time when 3G came to the country as fast mobile internet, and, damn, it felt fast back then! Well, not anymore.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I really love Apple products as a user: iPhone, MacBook, iPad, OS, etc. But I really hate Apple products as a developer: XCode, Dev Account registration & app submission process, etc. How come these 2 things coexist?

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I've started working on a new product and decided to pick up a good old Java & Spring stack instead of fancy things. And you know what? It feels great to be back! ☕

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

It's a bummer that the session limit can be reached in the middle of the answer. Understandable from the cost perspective, but a bad UX nevertheless. A great example of a hard engineering task to solve

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Bought a used Lenovo laptop and installed Fedora on it to test forq.sh, as it’s a Linux-first tool. It’s been a while since I touched non-server Linux. Surprised how fresh Fedora looks! Great to see that Linux is becoming more user-friendly for non-tech folks.

Myko Nordy
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I ran out of monthly credits in Cursor and decided to give the "grok-code-fast-1" model a try, as it is free for now. As you can see, it didn't go well. Not sure about developers, but it can already replace the Lorem Ipsum thingy for sure 🙂

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

So, I've finally tried HTMX. Funnily enough, here is what excited me the most: If you leave your browser tab open for 42 years, it will stay the same. No refreshes, no crashes. The page is just stoically waiting for you to be back. Long-forgotten joy after a decade of SPAs!

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I manually submitted talktolocals.ai to 31 directories, and here are the stats 2 months later 👇 We have a clear winner, so far: TAAFT. But 2 launches are still pending: BetaList and ProductHunt. Let's see who will win 🙃 I'll post new stats in a month, so stay tuned and don't miss out.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

The number of bots parsing GitHub is insane. Here is a screenshot from my newly created repo with 0 stars and followers. Do you see the similar stats for your repos?

Myko Nordy
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Just noticed that my most used LLM instruction in the agent mode is "Let's only discuss this, do not modify the code" Helps with LLMs' eagerness.

Myko Nordy
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Came across this post on Hacker News today. It's quite ironic to see how professional devs in Microsoft are forced to use the tool that is not good enough yet. But somebody up the ladder can report that AI creates 80% of PRs now. Check for yourself: www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Have you ever heard of Brooks's law? "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." From 1975, but hasn't aged a day. From 1975, but hasn't been understood yet.

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

I started my journey in tech with a role that was a hybrid of PM and QA: - figure out what needs to be done for the product - compile a list of requirements - send it to devs - test the feature they built With LLMs and Cursor, it feels like being back to where it started 🙂

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

In 2025, choosing a programming language for the project has a new dimension: AI awareness of it. And since LLM quality relies on the amount of data it was trained on, it leads to surprising results: Java > Kotlin JS/TS > Swift C > Zig Python > Rust Interesting, isn’t it?

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Coming from (relatively) big tech, I always think about scalability when building something. Would it be able to handle a million users? The truth is that most indie apps end up having 0 users. And tech is not the reason for that. A reminder to myself: think, but not overthink.

Myko Nordy
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After numerous tech discussions, I came up with a simple trick to quickly spot experts. Explain them a problem and observe: experts will ask questions to clarify things before offering solutions. The trick expands well outside tech: try it with a doctor, plumber or bank advisor

Myko Nordy
@n0rdy.foo

Since software engineers were the main users of Firefox due to privacy reasons, what is your new browser? Seeking privacy alternatives without the UX sacrifice.