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General · HTTP · about 30 seconds

What makes an HTTP method “safe”?

Pick one. Even a wrong guess helps you remember the answer.

  • 01The daily

    Today's question

    One engineering question a day, graded, with the explanation. A new one tomorrow.

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  • 02The challenges

    Hosted games

    Live game modes for a room full of engineers. You host, everyone you invite plays free.

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  • 03The courses

    Level 1, every course

    Structured courses taught in thirty-second reps. The first level of all of them.

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  • 04Slack

    A question in your channel

    The bot posts one question a day to one channel you pick. No seats, no trial.

  • 05The letter

    The Retrieval

    Our biweekly letter on evidence and practice. Everyone starts at issue one.

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  • 06The coding agent

    A rep inside Claude Code

    One short question about the thing you just built, inside the coding agent you already run. Answer with one letter or ignore it.

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  • 07The research

    The research publication

    Long-form essays on what passive AI use does to understanding. Every claim graded and sourced.

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[02]Why the habit worksThirty seconds, once a day

Answer before you reread. The order is what matters.

Recalling an answer from memory is what makes you keep it. Reading the same thing again feels productive and mostly is not. The difference is small on Monday and enormous by the following year, because every successful recall makes the next decline slower and raises the level where the memory settles.

Model · illustrativeFig. 01 · what one question a day is wortha model, not a measurement
month 06121824what you can still explain →83% → 40% in one weekRoediger & Karpicke 2006 · N=180g = 0.51 vs re-readingAdesope 2017 · 272 comparisonsstill holds on new problemsPan & Rickard 2018 · N=10,382one rep a dayread it once, moved onthe compoundwhat thirty seconds a dayis worth after two years
A model, not a measurement: the curve shapes are illustrative, and they are the same shapes the cognitive-debt figure uses on the research page, so the two can never disagree. The pinned anchors are measured. Roediger & Karpicke 2006 (N=180): re-reading a passage four times gave 83% recall after five minutes and 40% after a week, while testing yourself gave 71% then 61%. Adesope et al. 2017: retrieval beats re-reading, g = 0.51 across 272 comparisons. Pan & Rickard 2018 (N=10,382): the gain still shows on problems you have never seen. All of it, graded and sourced.

The group that re-read four times was the most confident they would still remember it a week later. They were the group that remembered least. Feeling fluent and being able to recall are different things, and only the ability to recall helps when production breaks at two in the morning.

The rest of the evidence

Every claim we make, graded and sourced, with the caveats next to the claims they belong to. Free, like this page.

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[03]Pass it onOne link, no account

Send someone a question, not a pitch.

The engineer who taught you something was not selling anything. Do the same: send one question to the person on your team who would argue about the answer.

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    Post it in your team channel

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[04]If you want the restOnly if the free version helps you

The free version is not a demo. The paid plans add to it.

Pro opens the rest of every course. Team sends the daily question to everyone you work with. Those two plans pay for the research behind the questions, for keeping them current, and for the free items above. Prices are on the pricing page, in full, with no call required.

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