An extra 2,298 words about the process of creating the post, including problems I ran into, how I solved them, and where bits of inspiration came from.
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But queues have trade-offs! If requests spend too long in them, users will give up and refresh or leave. Servers also waste time processing requests that have timed out.
@KatS This means so much to me to hear. One of the things I’m trying to do is create the introductions I would have wanted, too, using the full power of the modern web.
Almost a year since I started playing and I've finally hit 600 #ELO.
I've seen some IMs say that the 'hell wall' in #chess is around 600, and my play is highly volatile depending on how tired/well/hungover I am, so I'm not expecting to get much better quickly.
I'm not sure what to aim for next. Double my rating in the next year? Hit 1,000 by end of the year? Maybe six months? Something like that.
