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Knowing when to use TDD (or any other tool/method) is the difference between a good and a great developer.

People will think twice when investing the time & money in develop an app for the github marketplace as if it succeed, Github could just built the app inside their system. They bou…

In the first position that pawn can´t take the bishop because then you can move your rook attacking their queen and she is pinned (can´t move because is aligned with the king). The…

That's interesting, probably a bug in the take back function. There are multiple engine evaluations running in the background at the same time, current evaluation, opponent evaluat…

Yes, I also made this http://tacticalchess.vitomd.com/ that it will alert you when there is a tactical opportunity for you to win material. Other of my projects http://vitomd.com/b…

HAND & BRAIN chess I developed an online version of Hand and Brain Chess to play against a computer. In each move the BRAIN (stockfish engine) will highlight the piece or pieces th…

To have 2 cameras. 1 the raspberry pi camera, the other the usb webcam.

In my case the security camera is also a raspberry pi with the camera module (it could have night vision), connected with a webcam logitech c170 (really cheap) and the motion softw…

A security camera outdoors (connected to another webcam outdoor), when there is motion it will send a request to another indoor raspberry (node server) connected to a speaker and w…

Learn Stoicism. My favorite classic is Enchiridion by Epictetus and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. For a more modern approach: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand P…

I saw your twitch channel and also your lessons on youtube, really quality stuff and very instructive. I´m a Software engineer and amateur chess player. I'm intrigued about your pr…

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I could add another from Seneca: 'For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them ' A compilation of some great Stoic quotes http://arando…

It´s a interesting approach. I like to organize my ideas on a different kind of trees. I created Sorter for personal use https://github.com/vitogit/sorter Seems like https://fictio…

I was not aware of that tactic but I had some success with open source projects. For instance I created a Javascript wrapper library for Google Drive API v3 https://github.com/vito…