Emmanuel Francis

A Programmer Who Loves To Code

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[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Making solid progress on the chess engine.

Board representation is in place:

A 64-size array representing all squares on the board
Constants for piece types and colours

One small Go detail I really like: iota starts at 0, which naturally assigns None = 0.

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[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I am building a chess engine in Go from scratch.

No libraries.
No tutorials.
Just first principles.

What I built today:
* Custom types for pieces and colors
* A Board struct with 64 squares
* My first passing test using TDD

#golang #buildinpublic #chess

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

@Mayank_Msd lets go bro u got this

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Building a chess engine in a language I've never used before 🧠

Today's progress:

Board representation

Type safety with custom types + structs

Go iota for clean enums

Follow for more #buildinpublic updates on this game engine journey 🚀

#buildinpublic #gameengine

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I realised that switch a language or tech stack is not as bad as some people make them seem.

Ever since I switched to Go lang my interest in writing Tests has increased unlike other languages Go makes it straight forward.

Now I use TTD Test Driven Architecture to build projects

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I' m building a chess engine in public from scratch using a language I completely have no idea on: GO programming language.

I think this will keep me accountable and its probably a great way to learn to code.

Ideas and thoughts are welcome.

Follow to see the build progress.

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

@wagslane Thats very true

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I started building my URL shortener application 20 days ago and it hasn't been easy.

MVP is already done.

If you wanna try it out here is the link:
https://t.co/7Z117Vfc1t

let me know what you think and give me your ideas.

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

After 9 months we are finally glad to launch Dirtybucket: a beat selling platform for music producers to list and sell beats to artists and musicians.

Check it out here: https://t.co/mspwzgKyHf

Join the discord server here: https://t.co/Mzagr1vb8F

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

@ayushagarwal Bro the docs for Java is not good and confusing u guys are focused on only js which is alarming last night just setting up subscriptions I lost brain cells I had to just leave it

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

You guys let me know what you think

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Not building generic CRUD app but a complete beat selling platform for music producers and as music producer myself its going to help a lot.
Follow if you wanna see the progress.

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Discovered system design's power building my beat-selling SaaS (music marketplace). Hit roadblock: tight coupling, heavy APIs from "God model" doing metadata, S3 uploads, payments. Broke SRP! Refactoring w/ DDD domains. Project learning > tutorials. Your arch lesson? 👇 #DDD

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I wonder if I should be mad or impressed that @perplexity_ai can do this.

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Day #2
Today I worked on product service CRUD operations and I learnt how to use DTOs and model proper entities.

So now an authenticated user can create, view, update & delete products.

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

DAY 1 Yo guys I started documenting my way from zero to when we deploy Filthishop an e-commerce store for second hand products in Spring Boot as a MERN dev guy who is switching so go ahead and show some love or even watch if you wanna follow my progress. https://t.co/yVDhNiIfRp

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Coding in Java spring boot hasn’t been easy at all #coding

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

Norrsken Africa Week reminded me that real impact comes from real connections. Sitting with people who share a vision for a stronger tech-driven Africa hits different. Grateful for the conversations, the energy, and the community. Kigali did its thing. #AfricaWeek #Norrsken

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

@lokosangwani22 @norrskenEA @ikmiles2 My boys at work

[Emmanuel Francis @progFilthi]

I switched from MERN to JAVA springBoot do you guys think it’s worth it??