Chess is best OTB

Although chess can be played online, it is best played over a board. To get even more out of the games, I have created a webapp to record the moves along the way. It is designed for training and friendly games and give you the stockfish evaluation. However, not the actual variation. What the best move is, you have to figure out yourself. Unless you decide that you want a number of hints available.

The interface will rotate every half move, so you don’t have to turn the phone/tablet over.

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Stop Checkout Chaos: Why I Built SnartCard

Love them or hate them, loyalty programs and store memberships are everywhere. While privacy debates often steal the spotlight, there’s a practical problem that drives me crazy every time I shop:

The scene you know all too well:
You’re at the checkout. “Are you a member?” asks the cashier. You rattle off your phone number… they type it wrong… you repeat… it fails… you find your phone to lookup your wifes number… it fails too…  Time wasted. The line behind you grows. Everyone gets annoyed.

The problem? Almost every store uses your phone number as ID. The technology to make this simple exists—barcodes!—but the solution was missing.

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