How Big Multiplayer Chess Works

Mar 21, 2017

Big Multiplayer Chess is a multiplayer free for all chess variant where many players on a large board can move pawns in any direction and can slide castles, bishops and queens upto 8 places.

Some metrics or heuristics must be used to score how good a board configuration is for a player,

Network usage

Analysing App Engine logs with BigQuery

Mar 02, 2016

I created webfiddle.net which lets you easily add your own CSS and JavaScript to the web and share the results.

Part of the product includes a proxy server which injects your code, webfiddle.net is currently going fairly viral (2M requests in the last 5 days) and costing too much!

Optimizing python code

Feb 26, 2016

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def is_letter(character):
    return character in 
        'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

I noticed this function would loop from a-Z so we should speed that up using a set!

Migrate to AWS Elastic Beanstalk v3

Feb 25, 2016

v3 is FAR better than v2

You installed v2 by adding some directory to your PATH, remove that and run sudo pip install awsebcli

Running a HTTP Proxy Server At Scale

Feb 24, 2016

I wanted an easy way of designing greasemonkey scripts, chrome extensions and i would often report bugs and tell people how they can fix them.

I created WebFiddle.net which would run some extra CSS and JS on any page, i didn’t want anyone to have to install an extension to use it so you could easily share it to show someone a problem.

Working As A Remote Contract Code Monkey

Feb 24, 2016

I have been coding remotely from New Zealand for around 5 months now working 11am until 7pm matching Melbourne time, I have a Google hangout stand-up at midday and email my progress around at the end of each day, I’m also remotely included in retros, product showcases and planning meetings. It has been working pretty well.