Stories by marcusbuffett

An honest review of my first year as a full-time indie dev

My deep-cut book recommendations

A self-review of my last year building Chessbook

Treat your onboarding users like toddlers

Locality of Behavior, over the Single Responsibility Principle

A Made-Up Name Is Better Than No Name

Supermaven Joins Cursor

Creating an optimized keyboard layout for the next generation of the Datahand

The 2030 Rust Update

A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago

Abstractions are the best, abstractions are the worst

Managing my motivation as a solo dev

Processing 6 Billion Chess Games in Less Than 2 Hours

Which chess openings lead to the shortest games? What about the longest games?

My setup for ergonomic and performant Zustand in React

It’s probably not just chess and language. How much potential is thrown away?

Generating Chess Puzzles Fast with Rust and Stockfish

Reviews of all 52 books I read in 2021

Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time

Show HN: A site I made to train my chess visualization