I’ve come across Kepstin’s amazing 0x40hues project and caught myself listening to it a lot. After finding community resource packs to try, it quickly became troublesome to configure and run them. This motivated me to fork the project and after a great deal of refactoring, it now supports loading many respacks and on-the-fly configuration.

I’ve had a sudden spark of interest in chess as of late 2022 and decided to build my own web chess app with focus on simplicity and ease of use. Also I didn’t want to waste time convincing friends to register to [insert your favorite chess platform here]. With RazChess you just visit the website, copy the link of the session and pass it to the person you want to play with. As weeks passed I kept adding new features like chess puzzles (mate in two steps), Fischer random (chess960) game, included chess openings encyclopedia, custom games and the ability to download your matches as GIFs. There is also Redis support to restore active games after a restart.

A simple lobby/channel based registration-free webchat. Implemented using NancyFX + Razor + SignalR stack and relies on RazTools to support dynamic loading of bot libraries during runtime. The repo contains (outdated) bot implementations for CleverBot, Giphy, Imgur and Reddit. There is also a standalone desktop client, which is just a wrapper around the web interface.