Hi Stackers

My bio didn't go to well...... I got Darth'd

But I suppose that I deserved it

Full Disclosure
I've been on SN before as nym's but this is my real, if you like.... 'identity' I've linked my Github which I'll explain later.

I have a huge amount of respect for stackers like k00b and others who are doxxed effectively by showing their faces and have kept total integrity in everything they post, I want to shoutout Justin Shocknet too, he is a very trustworthy stacker imo, he sticks to his word.

And I've worked out who's who in this space, I won't name any more names but for me, I know who knows their shit and who is full of shit.

When I first got into Bitcoin, obviously I'd had a chequered past like some of us have, not everyone can find Bitcoin at a dollar, totally understand it and never deviate from the path, but there are some perfect ones amongst us I guess.

I think the goldbugs turned Bitcoiners had that knowledge already internalised that the fiat system was broken and it was a logical step to understand it.

I really like Nostr as a place to shitpost and have a laugh and SN has it's comedy moments but SN is the real deal, there is high level knowledge here and this place seperates all the BS on X to what is actually occuring.

My 40hpw really started with the usual youtube type content and it's matured now into more what I call real podcasts like Rock Paper Bitcoin, I like these guys because they sometimes don't even mention 'it' in their pods, obviously spending time on Nostr and here for the truth!

Technically I don't have a coding background, I'm actually a truck driver from the UK, but what I'm seeing is a huge advancement in making code available to the masses.

Now, could you say that this AI vibeslop is akin to what shitcoining was to Bitcoin? I'm sure that devs who have spent decades learning programming languages only for it to be accessible to anyone via a prompt is going to make the average dev pretty defensive.

Or the alternative view is that protocols like Nostr have opened the possibilities for the average Joe to think of an idea and just build it.

And that is where I'm at right nowAnd that is where I'm at right now

I thought of my project, I want to build a chess website, built on Nostr with lightning tipping.

I purposely didn't want to go down the road of gambling for sats because that's degenerancy and just ends up with the house having to build an edge in.

For me a few sats for a good move or a few sats for a good game is enough, it allows the players to use Nostr to login and also 'prove' the moves by utilising relays and lightning to compliment.

There is Chesstr - https://github.com/bordalix/chesstr

There is Lichess - https://lichess.org/

They are both good but I feel I could add to the space....hopefully

Vibecoding vs Real codingVibecoding vs Real coding

I can't code, that's a given, so I'm forced to rely on AI, but what I've noticed is that when I started, the app.tsx file started to get abnormaly large, so I enquired that shouldn't we divide this into sub files?

And I started to see the connection between the code and the finished website, It's been a real eye opener for me.

Which brings me to the first hurdle I've encountered, I can't get the relays to create a game between two opponents, I'm running this on one machine, I've got nip07 sorted and logged in on one tab and rawdogged a seperate nsec in another tab, I've been able to publish an offer via relays, but I can't get the other to accept.

Not looking for answers by the way, just documenting the journey, I'll break it into steps and break them into tiny steps and solve the challenge.

Hoping that it will be called https://lightning-chess.com or another iteration if that domain is gone.

Thanks for reading if you got this far, my Github is public if you want to scrutinise my attempt!