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Azazel_261

@Azazel_261

Joined June 22nd, 2026

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o/ hi everyone reading this! I'm a computer science major, second year in university and i enjoy coding in c/c++
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3h 35m 44s logged

My hackatime is broken and doesn’t cound the time (:cry_smile: ) but here’s the stuff i did:

  • Further optimized the generation algorithm so it doesn’t eat all my ram
  • Added a (very basic) evaluation function as well as a minimax search algorithm
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After a lot, and i mean A LOT of trial and error, my chess move generator now outputs moves consistent with qperf reference values! All that’s left is to optimize it not to use 14gb of my ram (:cry_smile: ) and i can start worrying about analyzing

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Sup, it sure has been a minute! With fully operational v1 of the bot, here’s what you need to know:

The SpartPing discord bot is a bot designed to call your friends for you, literally!

Mentioning users to attract their attention quickly becomes annoying, and when it’s time to assemble the crew, the message quickly becomes very long and mainly consists of “@ user1, @ user2, etc.”.

Discord solved this problem by adding roles that can be pinged, but that introduces new problems, that SmartPing is designed to solve:

  • Discord enforces a strict limit of 250 roles per server, and a large community might have better uses for those than organizing 15 people to play minecraft once a week. SmartPing solves this by organizing and mentioning users via its own system, independent of roles
  • You need a relatively high access level within a discord server to be able to create and manage, so the amount of people capable of that is limited, especially on a large server. Solution: since SmartPing is independent of the role system, call groups can be created and managed by regular users, with server admins always being able to intervene and take control if needed
  • Should you create a role, it is either only mentionable by administrators or everyone. Former is only viable for announcements, and cannot be used by users to organize themselves. Latter introduces the ability for users to spam the role. This is once again solved by SmartPing by enforcing a once-per-five-minutes ping policy that can only be circumvented by server admins

Development of this bot touched, among other things on asynchronous python code and event listeners/handlers, the latter of which is not implemented in hikari, so the handlers for the commands, autocomplete (did i mention the bot features autocomplete for group names?) and callback actions were written by me manually! I also had to touch up on my database knowledge, which, while is kind of annoying, was a lot of fun. I deployed to my dad’s (thanks, dad!) heroku server, where it is to stay for the foreseeable future

You can try the bot out yourself, today! After adding it to your server, start by using /group create to create your first call group and then go from there! All commands are available and documented through discord’s in-built slash command system

Peace!

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The bot is slowly nearing completion!
I’ve finished implementing rest of the commands, such as setting group parameters, added better arg parsing, etc.. All that’s left now is to polish the code, add final touches and deploy it

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1h 31m 52s logged

Group invites are now being handled properly!
This turned out not as hard as i thought it’d be, only requiring one top-level handler function, that could be arranged similarly to the other two i had for commands and autocomplete

TODO:

  • settatr for groups
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2h 26m 22s logged

Most of the bot is now fully working! This includes:

  • Creating, joining, leaving and deleting groups
  • Calling groups
  • Checking user eligibility to call said groups based on group policies

TODO:

  • Invites to private groups
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1h 14m 32s logged

Database code now allows for creating and joining groups, honoring users with admin permissions
I also created a dedicated error code system, instead of relying on try-catch to get all my info

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2h 48m 31s logged

I have rewritten the bot to use Discord’s built in interactions, which enables it to send messages visible to the command issuer

TODO: database 🥲

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1h 28m 29s logged

Part 2 of making the website, mostly working on the contents as well as making it somewhat okay on all screen resolutions

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3h 36m 16s logged

This is my first time properly doing web-dev so i probably made every mistake possible, but i’m slowly chipping away at a basic “about me” website using tailwind css

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3h 20m 30s logged

I discovered the bitset library in c++, which makes it a lot easier to deal with bits, like this here function that prints a bit representation of a u64 integer, arranged like a bitboard, very handy! Otherwise, for the stuff done so far:
✅Fixed up the algorithm for applying moves to better account for en passant
✅Enabled move generator to generate en passant moves
Other less notable changes

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