Thank you for the suggestion! Will do that for the next release when I include material balance indicator/captured pieces. :)
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Currently working on https://storychopsticks.com
For now, yes we are communicating moves in exactly the way you described EventSource! Eg:
{ "fen": "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1", "status": "active", "turn": "b", "white_ready": true, "black_ready": true, "spectators": 1, "in_check": false, "last_move": "e2e4", "game_over": false, "available_colors": [], "reservations": { "white": {"reserved": true, "expires_in": 0}, "black": {"reserved": true, "expires_in": 0} } }
Running something as complex as Lichess is... unwieldy when all I wanted was something I can quickly spin up in 5 mins on nearly any server, with a simple mobile interface for my father-in-law and child, and easy-to-debug (Lichess uses websockets which are often blocked by state firewalls).
If you don't have to deal with an amorphous state actor and a very different Internet culture, then please use Lichess. :)
Your sudoku (https://raunak.io/sudoku) kicksass!
[1]: https://imgur.com/YMMaM6E [2]: https://apnews.com/article/australia-singapore-solar-sun-cab...
The community (inherited from Pico-8) is already implementing cat/wget/grep[1] and, of course, Minesweeper[2] in Picotron! Whatever Joseph White/zep is building brings back the early days of Internet and IRC where the everybody builds and shares unashamedly while having a ton of fun!
Thank you zep for making computing fun again for more mere mortals!
[1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140771 [2]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140678
As a part of their Chinese language learning process, these young students are guided by their facilitators to create their own Chinese storybook, experiencing the highs and lows of the creative publishing process.
This contract signifies an important step towards owning intellectual property, building a pipeline for income generation, and above all, learning to make a mark in the world.
To show your support for these young and passionate authors, please join us for the launch of their book on March 25th (Saturday) at 11am GMT+8.
You can sign up for the event here: https://scp.st/book
Many commenters have mentioned that socialisation and its associated obligations are beneficial to learning, and this is what we are reminded of everyday among our students.
Kids learn best when they see other kids learn. And kids learn best when they are able to directly apply what they learn into a project that they own. We enable our own students to publish their own books and to perform in musicals that they produce.
Many online education companies fail because they think that all online education ("edTech") is simply digitising the school. It's not. To succeed, we need to think deeply about what online and physical education does best.
Hit me up if you want to learn more.
Michael and his crew are fantastic in progressively introducing new features that you may never find elsewhere (https://www.migadu.com/guides/index.html#features).
Your end users may hate the sparse webmail features though that's nothing that Thunderbird or Outlook may not resolve. HTH!
Over the past year we built StoryChopsticks - an online Chinese learning service to inspire children living in non-Chinese majority environments.
As a Chinese parent (by race, not nationality) with young children living in a heavily Westernised Chinese-majority country, Singapore, we learnt first-hand how important it is to have highly engaging content, creativity-based pedagogy, and teachers who build upon our learners' imagination.
Our own children have very low interest in all Chinese (non-English) content. Most Chinese language content are of low quality, tell traditional stories in a staid manner, and built upon the foundations of rote memorization.
To convince our own kids to learn Chinese, we make up our own stories and materials and, through play and acting, convince them to gain interest to learn the language. We refined our approach by experimenting at preschools, public libraries, and in-person classes.
We now deliver our pedagogy online to more than a hundred students every month using our own original stories together with physical books and flashcards built-in grammar to their doorsteps. Our young learners love our service and we have > 90% retention rate consistently.
Technology-wise, we glued together a marketing and course delivery system with Wordpress, Moodle, Zoom, Gather.town, Zapier, and a lot of hard work with a team spreaded across Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Egypt, and Indonesia.
As a second time startup founder (the first back in 2008 with a NLP startup [1]), it feels surreal to be able to focus on the problem and the customer together with domain experts (ex-preschool teacher with 20+ years of experience as cofounder), with so much of the tech stack already taken care of by somebody else (eg DigitalOcean, Closte, Stripe etc) and achieve five digit MRR within a year.
We are currently trying to solve a few challenges:
* How do we get children to learn in a highly-motivated self-directed manner? If you have seen how young children pickup and learn Roblox, you will be amazed by how second-nature it is to kids.
* How do we deliver online learning off-screen?
Thank you for checking us out. Any feedback, critique, or ideas for (online) early childhood education will be super for helping deliver better online lessons (on/off screen).
Hopefully this can give a modern spin to this ancient Chinese practice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope
Let us know what you think! :)