Most ideas sound good until you have to build them. These are the ones that survived long enough to become libraries, products or useful lessons.
Broadcasting live chess with near-zero latency over unreliable venue WiFi.
Connects DGT boards, tournament pairings and Stockfish analysis to venue displays, web viewers and mobile spectators in real time.
Movie tracking is tedious. Most people quit before they start.
The DGT clocks are beautiful, so, I wanted the option of one in my pocket...
Running a fitness studio shouldn't require spreadsheets and guesswork.
Most chess components are harder to integrate than the game itself.
Everyone underestimates date logic. Everyone regrets it, I'm no exception.
Engine analysis is heavy; nobody wants a live Stockfish worker just to spot a blunder.
Every team argues about process; nobody sees the second-order effects until it ships.
Making 'fastest finger wins' indisputable at scale.
Fully offline playable country & capitals quiz game.
Every project here shipped, ran, and then stopped. Retired with honours and kept for the lessons; the code rests in peace on GitHub.
Opening stats over millions of master games, answered in a single index scan, transpositions included.
Building workplace fitness without turning it into workplace surveillance.
Getting autonomous agents to decide instead of vanishing into infinite planning loops.
The puzzle takes minutes. Watching a backtracking algorithm speedrun it never gets old.
You don't learn C++ from a book.
