TL;DR: I built ChessDada — a free multiplayer chess platform inspired by old Yahoo Chess. No signup, no download, just instant browser-based chess. Built with Node.js, Socket.IO, and chess.js. Modern chess sites are bloated. Chess.com forces you through signup. Lichess defaults to account creation. The "5-second click and play" experience that made Yahoo Chess legendary in the 2000s is essentially
From Prompt to Production: AYW Workflow Case Study How we built a production-ready customer support chatbot in 6 hours (with full understanding, security review, and audit trails). Build a customer support bot that can: Handle 500+ concurrent users Integrate with Zendesk ticketing Support English + Spanish Maintain audit logs for SOC2 compliance Deploy on AWS with auto-scaling Traditional estim
Hey everyone, I shared this earlier as a CLI to analyse npm packages before installing. Since then, I’ve added something I think is even more useful: 👉 You can now scan GitHub repos before cloning or running them npx guard-install --repo https://github.com/user/repo There’s a growing pattern (especially in crypto interviews / side projects): “Clone this repo and run it locally” Some of these rep
Tired of writing the same Socket.io setup every project? 😩 I built quick-socket — install it and get real-time chat working in minutes. npm install quick-socket ## What you get out of the box 📦 ✅ Chat rooms ## Time saved ⏱️ Socket setup → 3 hours becomes 1 minute Room management → 4 hours becomes 1 line Typing indicator → 1 hour becomes 1 line Read receipts → 3 hours becomes 1 line Total sa
Step-by-Step: Migrating from Node.js 21 to Bun 1.2 for Your Backend APIs Why Migrate to Bun 1.2? Bun 1.2 is a modern JavaScript runtime built for speed, offering native TypeScript support, a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager. Compared to Node.js 21, Bun delivers up to 3x faster startup times, lower memory usage, and seamless compatibility with most Node.js APIs. For b
I run a flower shop in Munich and recently migrated my entire e-commerce setup to Medusa v2. The shop, the One thing that was completely missing: a connection to Lexware Office, which is the most popular accounting software So I built LexBridge - an open-source Medusa v2 plugin that automates the entire invoicing workflow. What it does When a customer places an order, the plugin: Looks up the cust
Book: TypeScript in Production Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You have seen the shape of this incident before. A 500 lands in production. The frontend says "checkout failed". The Hono service that owns /checkout called the prici
Book: TypeScript Essentials — From Working Developer to Confident TS, Across Node, Bun, Deno, and the Browser Also by me: The TypeScript Library — the 5-book collection My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You have a list of 50,000 users. You want the names of the first 10 active ones. You wr