Andrew Healey.

Hey, I'm Andrew Healey. I'm a software engineer at Vercel, and I'm interested in the joy of computing. I've written 146,451 words on this open source website.

Recent (113 articles)

Visualizing Chess Bitboards

Brief introduction to chess bitboards and move generation with animations.

Installing NPM Packages Very Quickly

Building a package manager with a fast install step.

Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE

Chess, card games, and Lua.

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Lisp Compiler Optimizations

Smaller programs that do less work.

My Time At The Recurse Center

Thoughts and reflections on my six week batch.

Building My Own Chess Engine

Exploring the computational complexity of chess. Code snippets in Python so you can do the same.