Did you know that Bobby Fischer’s favorite piece was the king side bishop? Well, at least it is according to Grand Master Mihail Marin in his book, “Learn From the Legends: […]
Hourglass app: recurring timer option?
Last week I mentioned the changes to the Hourglass app in regards to manual time entry. As I looked over the commits, I realized that I forgot to mention the […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: A Rook-ie mistake!
The rook is believed to have once been the “rukh”, which was some sort of tower shaped carriage that was placed on top of an elephant. Supposedly, the rukh […]
Edited Hourglass app manual time entry function.
Last week GitHub user spaetz brought forward a great idea for the Hourglass Android timer app that I made a while back. He recommended that the manual time entry be […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: A knight’s tale.
Now that we have a visual board to display, and we’ve called for the engine to check for all available moves, we need to actually add moves for each piece. […]
CompTIA Mobility+ certificate to be retired on December 15th.
One of the many things that my work requires is various IT certificates. In particular, they require Network+ for the job I am currently filling, and A+, Security+, and Linux+, […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: Getting “board” already?
They say that the folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. This priest found a way to hide his game by making a folding […]
What exactly constitutes as open source hardware (OSHW)?
There is a lot of buzz around the net on this idea of open source hardware (OSHW). However, the deeper that I look into it, the more tangled the web […]
Fool’s Mate Friday: the Just Chess Engine is just getting started…..
There are only 20 first moves in any standard game of chess. 20 choices, 20 options. Statistically, only 10 of those options regularly result in a win, or at worse, […]
Error: TARGET_USES_UNCOMPRESSED_KERNEL is depreciated!
While starting my new attempt at an Oreo build for the H811/H815 (T-Mobile LG G4), I ran into an error, right off the bat: Error: TARGET_USES_UNCOMPRESSED_KERNEL is depreciated! I took […]