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An agent that goes quiet for ten minutes does not feel autonomous. It feels broken. A spinner and a made-up “82% complete” label are not much better: they encourage users to trust a number your system cannot justify.
The fix is not to stream the model's hidden reasoning. It is to publish a small, evidence-backed account of the work: what phase the run is in, the last verified milestone, whether it needs a person, and what will happen next. This article shows how to build that contract for long-running, tool-using AI agents.
The progress problem is really a trust problem
Users ask three practical questions while an agent runs:
A token stream answers none of these reliably. It can continue while a tool is stuck, and it can stop even though a durable workflow will resume later. Likewise, an LLM-generated status such as “almost finished” is a prediction, not evidence.
Treat status as a product contract. The user-facing timeline should be derived from workflow events your system can verify: a job was accepted, a connector returned records, validation passed, an approval is waiting, or a final artifact was stored. The model may suggest a label, but it should not be the source of truth for state.
This distinction also protects privacy. A useful update is “Checked 42 invoices; 3 need review,” not a transcript of the agent's scratch work, retrieved customer text, or chain of thought.
Start with a state machine, not a progress bar
Long-running agent work has more states than running and failed. Model the states explicitly and make transitions durable.
queuedWork is accepted but has not startedrun record createdCancelrunningA worker currently owns the runlease heartbeatStopwaiting_on_toolThe run is awaiting a bounded external calltool request ID and deadlineCancelwaiting_on_userA decision or missing input is requiredapproval or question IDReview / answerretry_scheduledThe system will retry laterretry time and error classCancel / view detailssucceededThe requested result was verified and savedoutput receiptOpen resultfailedThe run cannot continue automaticallyfailure class and last checkpointRetry / contact supportcancelledWork was intentionally stoppedcancellation receiptRestart
Avoid a vague paused state. If the workflow is paused because it needs an address, show waiting_on_user. If it is paused because a vendor rate-limited it, show retry_scheduled. Specific state names let a user decide what to do without reading logs.
Here is a compact TypeScript event shape. It is deliberately about observable work, not hidden reasoning.
type RunEvent = {
runId: string;
sequence: number; // monotonic per run
at: string;
type: "phase_started" | "milestone" | "approval_needed" |
"retry_scheduled" | "completed" | "failed";
phase?: "preparing" | "collecting" | "verifying" | "delivering";
message: string; // reviewed, user-safe copy
evidence?: {
kind: "artifact" | "tool_receipt" | "checkpoint" | "approval";
id: string;
};
action?: { label: string; url: string };
};
Persist these events in the same transaction that changes workflow state, or attach them to an outbox. A UI event that says “report ready” before the report is stored is worse than no event at all.
Publish milestones, not a narrated thought process
Choose milestones at boundaries where the system can prove something changed. Good milestones are stable across model versions and useful if a run resumes tomorrow.
For a document-analysis agent, the timeline might be:
Notice what is absent: “thinking about clause 7” or “I believe this source is probably relevant.” Those claims are neither a dependable progress signal nor an appropriate audit record.
Each milestone needs an owner. The workflow engine owns checkpoint messages; the connector owns data-fetch receipts; the policy service owns validation results. If no component can produce evidence for an update, leave it out.
That rule prevents a common failure mode: a chat interface keeps emitting cheerful prose while the actual job stopped moving. Your supervisor should detect stale progress independently of the agent. For example, mark a run stalled internally when its lease heartbeat is fresh but neither a checkpoint nor a tool receipt has advanced within the expected phase window. The user-facing text can then say, “Still working longer than expected; no action needed yet,” or escalate honestly to “This task needs attention.”
Design an honest progress model
Percent complete works only when units of work are known. A migration over 10,000 rows has a denominator. An open-ended research task generally does not.
Use one of these models instead:
318 of 500 files checkedKnown workflowcompleted phaseVerifying findings (3 of 4 phases)Open-ended workelapsed time plus latest verified eventLast verified update: sources indexedApproval flowblocked state and decision impactNeeds approval before sending 3 emailsRetryable external worknext retry and preserved checkpointRetrying connector at 14:05; 18 items saved
Do not convert phase count into a false percentage. Four phases do not necessarily take equal time, and the model can loop inside one phase. If you show an estimate, label it as a range derived from similar completed runs, and hide it when the sample is weak.
function statusCopy(run: Run) {
if (run.status === "waiting_on_user")
return "Your decision is needed before this task can continue.";
if (run.completedUnits != null && run.totalUnits != null)
return `${run.completedUnits} of ${run.totalUnits} items verified`;
return `Last verified update: ${run.latestMilestone.message}`;
}
The word verified matters. It teaches users what the timeline represents and sets a standard your team can test.
Make waiting visible and actionable
The most damaging silence is not a slow model call. It is an agent waiting for a person while the product looks busy.
An approval event should include the decision, the consequence, the safe default, and an expiry rule. Keep the payload concise and reviewable:
{
"type": "approval_needed",
"message": "Three customer records have conflicting addresses.",
"question": "Which address should be used for the renewal notice?",
"options": ["CRM record", "latest support ticket", "skip these records"],
"default": "skip these records",
"expires_at": "2026-10-26T15:00:00Z",
"evidence": { "kind": "approval", "id": "apr_8f2" }
}
Never bury an approval in a scrolling chat. Surface it as a run state, send a notification only when action is required, and ensure a resumed run re-reads the approved decision from durable storage. This pairs well with approval gates, but it solves a different problem: making the wait understandable to the person who initiated the work.
Transport updates without building a fragile realtime system
Start with the simplest transport that fits your product.
status, latest_event, and etag; back off when nothing changes.Last-Event-ID.waiting_on_user are normally worth interrupting someone; routine milestones are not.Regardless of transport, the client must tolerate duplicate and out-of-order events. Use the sequence field, make the event stream append-only, and fetch the authoritative run snapshot after reconnecting. The UI is a projection; the workflow database remains the authority.
Build the API around a durable run record
A small API surface is easier to secure and test than a channel full of ad hoc text.
GET /runs/run_123
{
"status": "waiting_on_user",
"phase": "verifying",
"latest_event_sequence": 17,
"latest_event": {
"message": "42 records verified; 3 need a decision",
"at": "2026-10-26T12:04:12Z"
},
"actions": [{ "kind": "approve", "approval_id": "apr_8f2" }]
}
Keep sensitive tool arguments, raw documents, and internal exception stacks behind a permissioned diagnostics view. The default run page should disclose only the minimum a user needs to understand progress and take the next action.
Test the status contract like an API
Status is part of the user experience, so add tests beyond the happy path:
succeeded without an output receipt.waiting_on_user run always exposes a decision action and cannot spend tools until it resumes.it("does not claim success before output exists", async () => {
await workflow.emit({ type: "completed", evidence: undefined });
expect(await runs.get("run_123")).toMatchObject({ status: "failed" });
});
This is also where observability earns its keep. Measure time to first verified milestone, time spent waiting for users, stale-run recovery rate, and the share of runs that finish with a useful artifact. Avoid treating the number of progress messages as a health metric; a noisy timeline can conceal a poor workflow.
A practical rollout plan
Do not retrofit every agent at once. Start with one workflow where users currently refresh a page or ask support whether a job is stuck.
The result is deliberately less theatrical than a stream of simulated thinking. It is far more useful: people can leave a long-running agent alone, return with context, and intervene exactly when their judgment is needed.
Keep the language stable across releases
Treat visible status copy as part of your API. Changing waiting_on_user from “Needs your decision” to “Paused” may seem cosmetic, yet it can break notification rules, customer runbooks, and accessibility labels. Version the event schema, localize messages at the presentation layer, and keep a small compatibility test suite for every public state. That discipline pays off when new models, tools, and workflow engines arrive: the user still receives the same clear promise about what has happened and what they can do next.
FAQ
Should an AI agent show its chain of thought as progress?
No. Show concise, evidence-backed milestones instead. They are more reliable, safer for sensitive data, and easier for users to act on.
How often should an agent send status updates?
Update on meaningful state changes, verified milestones, and action-required moments. For long silent phases, add a bounded heartbeat that says the job is still owned, not a stream of filler messages.
Is a percentage complete useful for AI agents?
Only when the work has a known denominator, such as files processed or records checked. Otherwise show the phase, elapsed time, and most recent verified milestone.
What is the best state for an agent waiting on a person?
Use a specific waiting_on_user state with the exact question, a safe default, and a resumable approval ID. Do not leave the run labeled running.
Can polling work for long-running AI workflows?
Yes. Polling is simple and reliable for background tasks that update every few seconds or minutes. Use ETags and backoff, then move to SSE or WebSockets only when the interaction requires it.
How do you detect an AI agent that is stuck?
Track worker leases, tool deadlines, and the time since the last verified milestone. A supervisor outside the model should classify stale runs and surface a recovery state.#ai #ux #programming #devops #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
AI Agent Status Updates: Build Progress Users Can Trust Without Exposing Chain of Thought
Mac LC problem found!!! After the bad ROM, SCSI was not working. The lower than 5V voltage was a red herring. The real problem? Yes, yet another broken trace! SCSI data bus pin 4 (DB4) was disconnected from the SCSI controller pin 50. Jeez, these PCBs! In four LCs I own now, only one didn’t have a PCB problem.
Super happy to have a 68020 join the family! I now have (at least) a Mac with every 68K CPU Apple used (well I’m missing a real 040 but the LC040 still counts!).
Bi-Partisan Revulsion at Vivek .
#MAGA Not big fans of #Vivek and not happy about him playing low down dirty with a White woman.
#gop JFC Vivek we have trouble in every RED state and thought Ohio was safe even with Trump going full late stage dementia gay admiring Husted's ass and body !?*# and you had to pick a 12 year old child rapist's mother .
This is #Ohio . Midwestern values . No matter what #Epsteins BFF tells you CHILD RAPE is still no beuno in the Buckeye state.
All five boys are living together now. It has been a stressful introduction; the first go had blood drawn and led to a 40% reduction in testicles. I'd love to say they're all happy and settled now, but they are still squabbling for hierarchy. I hope it settles a bit but doubt it will end entirely. Still, it's better for them as it's easier for me to do enrichment with a single group than two.
"AI Is ‘on Track to Crowd Out Human Decision-Making’ in Warfare, U.N. Official Warns
Militaries, not just ordinary people, are offloading critical thinking skills onto bots.
There are some parts of life which most people would probably be happy to delegate to machines: filtering spammy emails, flagging old and forgotten subscriptions you’re still paying for, booking restaurant reservations, and so on. Simple, mundane tasks that won’t result in catastrophe when the bots inevitably screw up. In life-or-death situations, it’s probably unwise to give machines control over crucial decisions.
Yet that’s precisely what’s happening on modern battlefields, as many experts have begun to warn. AI is 'on track to crowd out human decision-making' in warfare, Robin Geiss, director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), an independent research group within the UN, said during a press briefing in New York City on Tuesday.
'Are we going to let machines target and kill human beings?' he asked, calling that a 'moral red line.' Handing sensitive military decisions to black box AI systems could make it more difficult for humans to prevent costly errors, Geiss noted—including when it comes to the most sensitive and dangerous arena of all: nuclear weapons."
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The Autonomous Kitchen: Why Vegetarian Gardening Is Your Best Defense Against Rising Food Prices
Walk down the produce aisle of any local supermarket today, and you are met with a quiet, persistent shock. Price tags for organic greens, imported tomatoes, and even humble root vegetables have climbed to levels that make a weekly grocery run feel like an exercise in budgeting gymnastics. Inflation, supply chain vulnerabilities, and transportation overheads have turned fresh produce into a luxury commodity.
Yet, right outside our back doors—or on a sunny apartment balcony, a postage-stamp patio, or even a well-lit windowsill—lies an alternative.
Vegetarian gardening is no longer just a pleasant weekend hobby or an aesthetic lifestyle choice. For the modern household trying to wrestle back control over monthly expenses, growing your own food has become a practical act of economic self-defense. And contrary to popular belief, you do not need acres of pristine farmland, expensive motorized tillers, or a degree in horticulture to make a serious dent in your grocery bill.
If you have ever considered growing your own food, there is no better time to start than right now. Even as the seasons transition and the weather cools, a strategic approach to beginner gardening can yield fresh, nutrient-dense crops, slash your food overheads, and transform the way you interact with what you eat.
The Economics of Home Cultivation: Why Every Dollar Invested Counts
When people first think about starting a vegetable garden, they often make the mistake of comparing homegrown food to the cheapest, highly subsidized, mass-produced items at the discount grocery store. If you measure success solely against a head of iceberg lettuce priced at rock-bottom wholesale rates, a garden might seem like an expensive way to buy dirt.
However, the real financial power of a vegetable garden lies in targeting high-value, high-yield, and perishable crops—the exact items that cost the most at checkout.
By focusing your efforts intelligently, a small backyard setup or a collection of containers can easily trim a meaningful amount off your monthly food budget, paying for its initial setup costs many times over.
Timing Is Everything: Embracing the Cool-Season Shift
A common misconception among beginner gardeners is that growing season ends abruptly with the summer heat. In reality, nature operates on multiple gears. While heat-loving crops like standard tomatoes and peppers wind down as autumn deepens, a whole suite of cool-season champions actually prefer crisp air and mild temperatures.
NC State Extension Publications – NC State University
In fact, growing vegetables in cooler weather offers distinct advantages:
If you are starting your garden journey now, your primary focus should shift toward hardy greens, root vegetables, and brassicas that thrive when the thermometer dips.
The Essential Beginner’s Playbook: What to Grow for Maximum ROI
To maximize your financial return and keep frustration low, start small and focus on foolproof, high-value crops. Here are the best performers for beginners looking to save money at the dinner table:
1. Leafy Greens (Kale, Swiss Chard, and Leaf Lettuce)
2. Root Vegetables (Radishes, Carrots, and Beets)
3. Culinary Herbs (Basil, Cilantro, Parsley, and Thyme)
4. Alliums (Green Onions and Garlic)
Setting Up On a Shoestring Budget
The gardening industry is filled with high-priced gadgets, chemical fertilizers, and designer raised-bed kits that can easily trick a beginner into spending more money than they save. To keep your project truly economical, adopt a resourceful, bootstrap mindset:
Protecting Your Investment: Simple Season Extension
As autumn weather transitions into chillier winter conditions, you can easily protect your crops and stretch your harvest window for months using low-cost materials:
Cultivating Resilience
Starting a vegetable garden is about much more than trimming a few dollars off your grocery receipt. It is about decoupling your household from fragile supply chains, understanding the biological cycles of food production, and experiencing the profound satisfaction of sitting down to a meal that you nurtured from a tiny, unassuming seed with your own hands.
You do not need perfection, and you do not need perfectionist acreage. Pick two or three of your favorite vegetables, find a sunny patch of earth or a spare bucket, plant your first seeds, and take your first step toward food autonomy.
Footnotes & References
It sounds like a wonderful vision! Gardening in small spaces—whether on a balcony, patio, porch, or sunny windowsill—is extremely rewarding and completely achievable with the right approach.
Starter Summary
LocationRecommended VeggiesRecommended FruitsIdeal ContainerWindowsillArugula, Radishes, LettuceMicro-Tomatoes, Alpine Strawberries6–8″ Pots, Window BoxesBalconyBush Cucumbers, Mini PeppersTrailing Strawberries, Tumbling TomatoesRailing Boxes, Hanging BasketsPatioBush Tomatoes, Patio ZucchiniDwarf Lemon Trees, Patio Blueberries, Dwarf Figs7–15 Gallon Pots / Fabric BagsSetting up a patio garden gives you the greatest advantage in small-space gardening: weight capacity and volume. Unlike windowsills or balconies with strict weight limits, a patio can comfortably support heavy soil, deep containers, and large fruit-bearing plants.
Here is a targeted setup guide to build a high-yielding patio harvest:
1. Top Crops & Container Pairings
Heavy-Yield Vegetables
Dwarf Patio Fruits
2. Container Types Best Suited for Patios
3. Patio Placement Strategy
To maximize growth, organize plants on the patio based on sunlight exposure:
[ BACK WALL / HIGH SUN ] -> Dwarf Lemon Tree, Bush Tomatoes (Tastiest with full sun, 6-8+ hours) [ MID-PATIO AREA ] -> Peppers, Bush Zucchini, Eggplant (Full sun) [ PARTIAL SHADE SHADOWS ] -> Leafy Greens, Radishes, Pot Herbs (3-5 hours sunlight) Here is the fundamental rule of container gardening: When growing in containers, you are creating a completely self-contained ecosystem. Plants in pots rely entirely on you for their water, nutrients, and root environment.
Focus on these five foundational principles to guarantee success on your patio:
1. Soil & Drainage Rule (The #1 Mistake)
2. Container Size Matters
3. Master the “Finger Test” for Watering
4. Feed Your Plants Regularly
5. Match Plants to Your Sunlight
Quick Patio Checklist to Start
[ ] Potting Mix (Not topsoil or garden soil) [ ] Pots with bottom drainage holes (5 to 15-gallon sizes) [ ] High-sun location on the patio (6+ hours for vegetables/fruits) [ ] Liquid organic fertilizer [ ] Watering can or hose attachment 
DATE: October 26, 2026 at 04:00PM
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TITLE: Women reach orgasm more often alone, but partnered orgasms are more closely tied to sexual satisfaction
Women tend to reach orgasm more often during solo sex than with a partner, but a new study suggests that partnered orgasms are the ones more closely tied to overall sexual satisfaction. The survey of nearly 28,000 users of a period-tracking app, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, also found that a wider variety of partnered activities was linked to greater satisfaction, while variety in solo sex showed no such benefit.
Sexual satisfaction refers to a person’s overall evaluation of how fulfilling and pleasurable their sex life is, a measure closely tied to overall health and quality of life. Past research has consistently linked women’s sexual satisfaction to how often they reach orgasm and to sexual variety, which is the number of different sexual behaviors a person engages in. For instance, a 2017 national survey of U.S. adults found that people in long-term relationships who incorporated a wider range of intimate behaviors and had more frequent orgasms tended to feel more satisfied with their sex lives.
Reaching orgasm with a partner, however, is far less consistent for women than reaching orgasm alone, a disparity examined in a 2024 review of the partnered orgasm gap. That review noted that 38 to 92 percent of women usually or always climax when masturbating, and that women’s orgasm rates rise sharply when sexual activity includes direct stimulation of the clitoris, a small, highly sensitive organ at the top of the vulva. During partnered sex with men, routines often center on vaginal penetration alone, leaving many women without the stimulation needed to climax.
Because solo sex is such a reliable source of orgasms, one might expect frequent masturbation to boost sexual satisfaction, yet prior research has yielded mixed results. Among studies of women in a 2024 systematic review, 40 percent found no link between masturbation and sexual satisfaction, a third found a negative link, and about a quarter found a positive one.
The review’s authors argued that negative links may arise when masturbation compensates for unfulfilling or absent partnered sex, but they found that for women, masturbation more often seemed to complement partnered sex rather than replace it. The context of solo activity may also matter: a study covered by PsyPost in 2020 indicated that women who used vibrators both alone and with a partner reported higher sexual satisfaction than those who used vibrators only alone.
Most earlier studies examined only a narrow set of partnered behaviors or treated masturbation as a single category without comparing specific solo and partnered activities side by side. To explore how distinct behaviors, variety, and orgasms relate to satisfaction across both contexts, Yella Hewings-Martin and Adam C. Cunningham of Flo Health UK Limited and their colleagues surveyed users of the Flo health app to test whether solo orgasms and variety relate to overall satisfaction the same way partnered ones do.
The researchers recruited participants between April 11 and May 5, 2024, via in-app messages shown to adult English-speaking Flo users. From 70,424 initial responses, the team excluded users who did not complete the survey, lacked a valid app ID, or failed two attention-check questions, leaving 27,931 participants with an average age of 28 years. Nearly all respondents were biologically female (98.9 percent) and identified as women (96.4 percent); 70.7 percent identified as heterosexual, 23.1 percent as bisexual or pansexual, and 81.3 percent had a male partner.
Respondents reported on their sex lives over the previous six months, rating their overall sexual satisfaction on a five-point scale and their orgasm frequency from never to almost always. They also rated how often they engaged in 13 partnered and 13 solo sexual activities, including vaginal penetration, clitoral stimulation by hand or vibrator, watching erotica, and role-play, and how often each behavior led to orgasm. Multiplying activity frequency by orgasm frequency yielded weighted orgasm scores for solo and partnered contexts. Those who climaxed more often in one setting than the other selected up to three reasons from 22 options to explain why.
Across the full sample, 56.2 percent of participants were moderately or very satisfied with their overall sex life, while 19.5 percent were moderately or very dissatisfied. Roughly 36.9 percent reached orgasm almost always or always, and 22.9 percent did so most of the time, whereas 20.6 percent climaxed less than half the time or never. Overall orgasm frequency had a moderate positive correlation with sexual satisfaction (r = 0.38, on a scale where 1 would be a perfect match): 61.2 percent of very satisfied respondents reached orgasm almost always, though 19.5 percent of very dissatisfied respondents also climaxed almost every time.
The data showed a difference between the behaviors performed most consistently at every encounter and those practiced by the widest share of women overall. Vaginal penetration without other stimulation was the partnered behavior most consistently performed every time (39.7 percent), but clitoral stimulation by a partner’s hand, mouth, or tongue was the most widespread partnered activity overall (90.2 percent at least sometimes), followed closely by vaginal penetration paired with other body stimulation (90.1 percent) and by vaginal penetration paired with clitoral touch (90.0 percent).
The authors noted that clitoral stimulation topping the list of widespread partnered behaviors contrasts with older surveys where vaginal intercourse was most common. They suggest this likely reflects their more detailed questions about a six-month period, though they also speculate that it could partly reflect a younger sample (38 percent of respondents were aged 18 to 25).
In solo sex, clitoral stimulation by hand was both the most widespread behavior (84.6 percent) and the most consistent (44.5 percent every time), while only 5.5 percent practiced solo vaginal penetration alone every time. Across all 13 paired comparisons of similar activities, women reached orgasm more frequently when alone than with a partner, with differences ranging from small to moderate. Overall, 47 percent of participants reported reaching orgasm more often during solo sex, compared to 21 percent with a partner and 27 percent who reported no difference.
In solo sessions, clitoral stimulation with a vibrator or dildo, watching erotica, and clitoral stimulation by hand were linked to the highest orgasm rates. During partnered sex, the highest orgasm rates came from using sex toys together, combining vaginal penetration with clitoral stimulation, and masturbating with a partner present, while vaginal penetration alone and anal stimulation were linked to the lowest rates in both contexts.
Participants’ own explanations pointed to both psychological and physical factors. Women who climaxed more often alone most commonly cited inadequate stimulation from a partner, an absence of pressure to perform, reduced body image self-consciousness, and feeling safer to let go because they controlled the stimulation. Many also pointed to partnered obstacles such as a partner finishing too soon, difficulty communicating preferences, life stress, or painful intercourse. By contrast, those who reached orgasm more often with a partner emphasized emotional intimacy, adequate partner stimulation, and heightened arousal from attraction to their partner.
To examine how solo and partnered experiences predicted overall sexual satisfaction, the authors analyzed the 19,469 respondents who had engaged in partnered sex during the past six months. Partnered orgasm frequency was the strongest positive predictor of sexual satisfaction, whereas solo orgasm frequency showed a tiny negative association in initial models and was not statistically significant in the final model. Participants averaged 7.79 of the 13 partnered activities and 6.45 of the 13 solo activities; greater partnered variety predicted higher satisfaction, while greater solo variety was weakly associated with lower satisfaction. Together, these factors accounted for about 16 percent of the differences in satisfaction between participants.
In a separate model of 20,805 partnered-sex participants controlling for relationship status, being in a relationship and engaging in greater partnered variety both predicted higher overall orgasm frequency, whereas solo variety was not statistically significant. That model accounted for about 7 percent of the differences in orgasm frequency between participants.
The positive tie between partnered climax and satisfaction aligns with research covered by PsyPost in 2018, which examined heterosexual newlywed couples rather than a broad sample of female app users and similarly found that a woman’s partnered orgasm frequency is positively linked to her sexual satisfaction. At the same time, the findings on solo sex and variety stand in tension with a study covered by PsyPost in 2022, which linked frequent masturbation in women to higher sexual satisfaction alongside frequent intercourse and variety. That earlier study, however, looked at overall masturbation frequency across a broad adult population, whereas the new study specifically evaluated solo orgasm frequency and sexual variety among female app users.
There are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting these findings. Because the survey captured data at a single point in time, it cannot establish cause and effect: women who already feel happy and secure in their relationships may simply feel more comfortable exploring a wider variety of activities with their partners, while women experiencing an unfulfilling partnered sex life may turn to solo masturbation and try more solo techniques to compensate. In addition, sexual satisfaction was measured with a single question about a respondent’s overall sex life, which many people may naturally judge based on their partnered relationships rather than their solo habits. The large sample size also makes it possible to detect tiny statistical differences that have little practical impact in daily life.
The sample consisted of English-speaking users of a health tracking app who were mostly young, White, and heterosexual, and about half held a bachelor’s degree or higher. Because participants volunteered for a study described as being about female orgasms, they may be more comfortable discussing sex, or more sexually active, than women in general. Four of the authors are employees of Flo Health with equity in the company, and the other three are consultants for it.
The authors suggest that bringing elements of solo sex into partnered encounters, such as open communication about preferences and less pressure to perform, could help narrow the gap between solo and partnered orgasms. Future research tracking couples over time could help explain how emotional closeness, trust, and communication interact with physical stimulation to shape sexual fulfillment.
The study, “Sexual Satisfaction and Orgasm Experiences During Partnered and Solo Sex Among 27,931 Users of the Flo App,” was authored by Yella Hewings-Martin, Adam C. Cunningham, Jordan Rullo, Karen L. Blair, Carley Prentice, Anna Klepchukova, and Liudmila Zhaunova.
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Think of the last person you interacted with. How happy do you think you are relative to them? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth #psychology
Think of the last person you interacted with. How happy do you think you are relative to them? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth #psychology
How happy do you feel RIGHT NOW? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth
Very happy with the response to my Edith Nesbit ghost story reading. Scheduled for 45 mins, entire audience stayed on for 75 mins to hear an extra story. ❤️
I am quite happy with the results of where my painting application is going!! #side-project #art #simulation #painting
@eniko Genuinely so so happy about the Made By Humans No "AI" thing
The closest I had run across was https://brainmade.org which always just made me really sad — "90% human-made" (whatever tf that means) feels like such a missed opportunity, cedes so much ground unnecessarily
Thank you for doing this so thoughtfully, ESPCECIALLY encoding "AI"-prohibition into the license itself
I'm so happy in this moment
Were a person to collect all the happy thoughts he had ever had in his life, the result would be a valuable book. At least once a yea eveyone is a genius. It is only that the actual man of genius so-called has his good ideas at shorter intervals. We see, then, how much depends on making a note of everything.
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‘FINALLY, SOMETHING GOOD’ FRAMES HARD DATA TO DRIVE OPTIMISM Thirteen years after ‘The Happy Show’, Stefan Sagmeister…
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stefan sagmeister’s artworks turn global data into good news at la gaîté lyrique
‘FINALLY, SOMETHING GOOD’ FRAMES HARD DATA TO DRIVE OPTIMISM Thirteen years after ‘The Happy Show’, Stefan Sagmeister…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Exhibitions #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/814409/
https://www.magmoe.com/3308158/entertainment-news/2026-10-26/ Darkroom所属のBluegirl、デビュー曲「Look At All The Happy People」を公開 #Bluegirl #entertainment #EntertainmentTopics #MUSIC #POP #エンタメ #エンタメトピック #音楽
since i'm starting to work on fedi related software, i'd like to gauge opinions - are you happy with the social network you're currently using? are you happy with the app you're currently using?
#fediverse #fedimeta #fedidev #bluesky #sns #poll #socialnetworking #fedilab #fedibird #toot #tusky #ivory #mastodon #misskey #sharkey #firefish #calckey #pixelfed #fyp #trending #news
Today, I've done a little work on my shell script that uses RegExs on my chapter files to find possible editing issues.
I'm pretty happy with the results from today's change. Though I'm not completely sure the new RegEx works across multiple paragraphs. Even without that definitely working, it finds a bunch of new stuff to check on The Novel.
#JBTechPost #RegularExpressions #AmWriting #AmEditing
Well, that was quite a *Bourasque* we’ve just had here. Short as it was, the ground is soaked and my windows are clean.
No damage, no rain seeped in. Happy for the water to com down. It has cooled things down somewhat (not in the political sense :)
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Now to plug my laptop back in and switched on to restart the backup I was doing before the lightning show…
Today's challenge was tough, but overall I have become better at Mini Metro. Yes, bottom 20% isn't great, but since I tried to go less circular, I'm actually happy with the results.
We are happy to announce the Apache Kafka 4.4.0 release!
Thanks to 151 contributors and our release manager Omnia!
Top highlights:
- DLQ for share groups
- TX-state stores for Kafka Streams
Check out the release blog post for more details:
https://kafka.apache.org/blog/2026/10/22/apache-kafka-4.4.0-release-announcement/
No day is an off day in online #security.
Running a Dockerized #Weblate? Go on to https://github.com/WeblateOrg/docker/releases/tag/2026.10.1.3 and pull it to get some peace of mind. It addresses the issue in #Brotli, CVE-2026-111497. #Weblate cloud is updated already.
Happy Saturday from the team! #OpenSource #YourSoftwareYourLanguage
A few months ago, I was looking through a codebase I wrote over a year ago.
Honestly? It was a nightmare.
Nested loops everywhere, variable names that made sense only to 2:00 AM me, and functions that tried to do five different things at once. I spent almost two hours just trying to trace how a simple user authentication flow worked.
That was my wake-up call. We often hear about "Clean Code" principles, heavy design patterns, and enterprise-level architecture. But when you’re building real-world projects or shipping features quickly, over-engineering code can be just as bad as writing messy code.
Over time, I stripped away the fluff and focused on 4 dead-simple habits that completely changed how readable and maintainable my code is today.
1. If You Need a Comment to Explain What Code Does, Rename It
Earlier in my journey, I used to add comments above almost every line:
JavaScript
// Check if user is active and has paid
if (u.st === 1 && u.p === true) { ... }
Now, I let the code speak for itself:
JavaScript
const isEligibleUser = user.isActive && user.hasActiveSubscription;
if (isEligibleUser) { ... }
Comments should explain WHY a decision was made (e.g., worked around a specific browser bug or API limitation), not WHAT the code is physically doing. If your variables and functions are named clearly, the code becomes self-documenting.
2. The Single Responsibility Rule (Keep Functions Boring)
If a function is named createUserAndSendEmail(), it’s already doing too much.
When a function tries to handle database queries, business logic, and third-party API calls all in one place:
It becomes painful to write unit tests for it.
Debugging takes twice as long when something breaks.
Break it down. A function should ideally do one thing, do it well, and do it predictably. Keep your functions short enough that you don't need to scroll up and down to remember what variables were declared at the top.
3. Early Returns Over Deeply Nested if Blocks
Nothing ruins readability faster than the "Arrow Anti-pattern"—code that slowly drifts to the right side of your screen due to nested if/else statements.
Instead of this:
JavaScript
function processOrder(order) {
if (order) {
if (order.isPaid) {
if (order.hasStock) {
// Process order
}
}
}
}
Do this:
JavaScript
function processOrder(order) {
if (!order) return;
if (!order.isPaid) return;
if (!order.hasStock) return;
// Process order
}
Handling edge cases and invalid conditions at the very top of your function (guard clauses) keeps the main happy path clean, flat, and easy to follow.
4. Delete Dead Code (Don't Hoard It)
We’ve all done it: commenting out a block of 30 lines "just in case we need it later."
Spoilers: You will never need it later. And if you do, that’s literally why Git exists!
Leaving commented-out blocks, unused variables, and orphaned files floating around creates cognitive noise. When someone else (or future you) reads that file, they waste mental energy wondering if that code is still relevant. Clean as you go.
Final Thoughts
Clean code isn't about applying every complex design pattern you read about in a textbook. It’s about being empathetic to the next developer who has to read your work—even if that developer is just you six months from now.
Start small. Pick one of these habits and apply it to your next pull request or personal project. You'll instantly notice how much easier your codebase becomes to work with.
What's one coding habit that made the biggest difference in your projects? Let me know in the comments! 👇#ai #webdev #programming #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Stop Overcomplicating Clean Code: 4 Simple Habits That Saved My Projects
Happy #Monday afternoon from the #Northland!
It is a #seasonal late October day for the region, which means #temperatures where they should be.
We are watching the #radar for several rounds of #showers the next few days. The first main batch is slowly arriving, with everyone seeing them by tonight.
Whether you're in the mood for drama, comedy, horror, pulp action, gritty sci-fi, or something completely different, Happy Jacks has what you're looking for!
Check out our full lineup to discover your next favorite #ttrpg #ActualPlay.
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