https://jesal.dev/ Exploring computer science and software en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jesal.dev/posts/bitboards/ https://jesal.dev/posts/bitboards/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How bitboards represent a chess position as 64-bit integers, letting an engine reason about whole sets of squares with single machine operations. https://jesal.dev/posts/minimax/ https://jesal.dev/posts/minimax/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Implementing minimax and alpha-beta pruning in Go for tic-tac-toe, from searching the full game tree to pruning branches that cannot change the result. https://jesal.dev/posts/go-pdqsort/ https://jesal.dev/posts/go-pdqsort/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 A walk through Go's standard library sort, understanding how pattern-defeating quicksort (pdqsort) blends quicksort, heapsort, and insertion sort. https://jesal.dev/posts/go-sse/ https://jesal.dev/posts/go-sse/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Implementing server-sent events (SSE) for real-time, unidirectional server-to-client updates over HTTP using only Go's standard library. https://jesal.dev/posts/0x88-board/ https://jesal.dev/posts/0x88-board/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 A look at the 0x88 chess board representation, a square-centric scheme that stores the board in a 128-byte array and leans on a clever bitmask for move generation.