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    <guid>https://mcksp.com/tech/fork.html</guid>
    <title>fork: simple chess engine</title>
    <link>https://mcksp.com/tech/fork.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h1&gt;fork: simple chess engine&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I created a simple bitboard chess engine to learn what is behind technology that beats my ass regulary, and also to get better grasp on crystal lang. I probably should add some endgame strategy, but it feels like I spend enough time on that, and it&#39;s time to release it to the world.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I&#39;m really proud of my custom animated chess pieces xd.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Feel free to check &lt;a href=&quot;https://git.mcksp.com/fork&quot;&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img class=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;/assets/tech/fork/fork.gif&quot;&gt;
    </description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <guid>https://mcksp.com/blog/first-half-ironman.html</guid>
    <title>My first Half Ironman!</title>
    <link>https://mcksp.com/blog/first-half-ironman.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h1&gt;My first Half Ironman!&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I guess I just want to brag (or encourage other to take the challange too!) that I finished my first Half Ironman!
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Ended up under 5:54h, really happy with that, I thought that sub 6h is out of my reach.
Till April my longest effort was half marathon.
Everything went surprisingly well, no incidents, no pain, just 6h of full effort, it was thriving there :D
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Just wanted to post it here, so you know that you can write to me also with thriathlon stuff :)
&lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <guid>https://mcksp.com/blog/tech-first.html</guid>
    <title>It's ok to make for tech people first</title>
    <link>https://mcksp.com/blog/tech-first.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h1&gt;It&#39;s ok to make for tech people first&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I came across an article named &lt;a href=&#39;https://gilest.org/indie-easy.html&#39;&gt;&quot;Let’s make the indie web easier&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.
And while making indie web easier is not &lt;i&gt;bad&lt;/i&gt;, I have much different take on what is needed right now.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Throughout my whole journey with programming, I always heard that we should focus on making tech accessible for everyone and we should focus on nontechnical users.
And I think that it&#39;s really important.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
But in the meantime, it&#39;s easier to setup a website than ever.
Services like
&lt;a href=&#39;https://bearblog.dev/&#39;&gt;bearblog&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&#39;https://pika.page/&#39;&gt;pika&lt;/a&gt; or
&lt;a href=&#39;https://write.as/&#39;&gt;write.as&lt;/a&gt;
lets you get your website running in seconds.
If someone wants to have a website, there is really no excuse.
And it kinda turns out, not that many people outside tech want to have their own website.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
And the reason - I suppose - is that web is simply not that fun anymore.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
The first reason that I would like to focus on would be
walled gardens, paywalls, AI slop, ads and 25mb websites with 1.3kb of the essence.
&quot;Developers&quot; called in this article, in my opinion, should focus on providing alternatives to this, not on making easier wordpress.
And they don&#39;t own it to &quot;people&quot;, they own it to themselves.
&lt;b&gt;If web won&#39;t be fun for tech people, it won&#39;t be fun for anyone.&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Some attempts like &lt;a href=&#39;https://geminiprotocol.net/&#39;&gt;gemini&lt;/a&gt; are nice to see.
I see more webrings than ever which help discover exciting stuff on web, which is really hard using &quot;the search engine&quot;.
Mastodon, while kinda lost momentum, it looks like it&#39;s here to stay for a long time.
Personally, I believe widespread indie &quot;mail&quot; alternative would be a game changer, but it looks like it&#39;s kinda impossible to win with bad actors/spammers.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
But it&#39;s hard for me to imagine bold projects that can really change the indie web, that are not &quot;geeky&quot;, made for tech people.
And in the past writers and accountants managed to join irc and put websites through ftp.
And knowledge gained through it helped them to make web better.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Another reason would be that fewer people want to exchange ideas and share thoughts on the internet, and more and more people want to create &quot;content&quot; - filler for marketing campaigns, but that&#39;s another story.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
tldr: idk, make web exciting
&lt;/p&gt;

    </description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <guid>https://mcksp.com/blog/minimalism.html</guid>
    <title>UI minimalism is bad</title>
    <link>https://mcksp.com/blog/minimalism.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h1&gt;UI minimalism is bad&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Recently I&#39;ve been getting more and more frustrated with minimal UI and apps afraid of exposing the inner state to the user (I took that phrase from &lt;a href=&#39;https://berkeleygraphics.com/&#39;&gt;Berkeley Graphics&#39;&lt;/a&gt; design philosophy).
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I want to know in my music player if the song is cached or is downloading, if it&#39;s playing through bluetooth or through jack. If it&#39;s not playing, then where is the issue: bluetooth, internet connectivity or anywhere else?
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
And if your washing machine app
(yeah, washing machines are using &lt;a href=&#39;https://x.com/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471&#39;&gt;3.6GB data a day&lt;/a&gt; to keep your clothes clean)
&quot;really&quot; requires a constant network connection,
don&#39;t ask nontechnical person to &quot;connect to wifi&quot; on a phone that is already connected to it,
be clear and say &quot;we need a password for your wifi to connect washing machine with your home network&quot;.
But ideally don&#39;t force anyone to do that.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Don&#39;t treat your user like a dumb dumb that can&#39;t handle the truth.
&lt;/p&gt;
    </description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <guid>https://mcksp.com/tech/gituwa.html</guid>
    <title>gituwa: static git web frontend generator</title>
    <link>https://mcksp.com/tech/gituwa.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h1&gt;gituwa: static git web frontend generator&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;code&gt;gituwa&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is static git web frontend generator.
You can find it self-hosted &lt;a href=&#39;https://git.mcksp.com/gituwa&#39;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
It lets you browse file tree, display file content,
and also prepare nice repo main page with file tree,
photo of your project and README.
&lt;/p&gt;

Usage of gituwa:
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;gituwa [repo_path] [output_path] [repository_description]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
where &lt;code&gt;repo_path&lt;/code&gt; can be a path to &lt;code&gt;bare&lt;/code&gt; repository, and
&lt;code&gt;repository description&lt;/code&gt; is a short text that will be displayed next to
name of the repository.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
To update files automatically on &lt;code&gt;git push&lt;/code&gt; I recommend updating &lt;code&gt;post-receive&lt;/code&gt;
hook of repositories to include call of &lt;code&gt;gituwa&lt;/code&gt;.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I was looking for something like that for my site, and I found &lt;a href=&#39;https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/files.html&#39;&gt;stagit&lt;/a&gt;,
which is great software, but I decided to implement something simpler by myself.
So in terms of features &lt;code&gt;gituwa&lt;/code&gt; is definitely a subset of &lt;code&gt;stagit&lt;/code&gt;
except directory structure in file tree and added image on the main page of repository.
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
I think that image makes a lot of difference when looking at repositories of strangers
on the internet, as it removes barrier of cloning and compiling a thing to see what it
is really about
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img class=&#39;center&#39; src=&#39;/assets/tech/gituwa/gituwa.png&#39;&gt;

    </description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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