u/vitund

When I apply eyedrops my eyes burn more for a bit, before I feel a relief. Then 5 minutes later they feel dry and burning again. For instance today I've applied them about 8-10 times.

I would apply them more, but I'm holding myself back because they are expensive where I live.

When I watch Nordic movies or TV series, there is often amazing music, but as they are often not in English, they tend to mostly been known within our own countries.

It would be great if there would be a Nordic songs community on here, where we could share and request music.

There is a r/nordicmusic community, but it isn't active.

I purchased the new 2025 M5 MacBook Pro recently, and the only time it overheats is when I use Lichess's computer analysis. Due to this, I analyse my games on my phone.

I had a Lenovo ThinkPad before that, and it also only overheated using the computer analysis on Lichess, but not on Chesscom.

Do you know why?

I want to build a high-quality chess website and make it as good as possible. What programs, frameworks and technologies would you recommend for building something like this?

I'm starting from scratch and would really appreciate advice from people who have a lot of experience from building web apps or chess projects before.

Edit: I want to use puzzles and the Stockfish engine from Lichess. I have an idea in regards to studying chess and want to customize the puzzle solving in specific way.

I'm an adult beginner who played my first chess game about 10.5 months ago. I started around 100 elo and am currently 1260 rapid on Chesscom, and puzzle rating of 2200 on Lichess. After plateauing around 1000, I decided to try a few lessons with an FM coach for some guidance (he has coached close to 150 students), where we analyze games, improve calculations, solve tactical puzzles, and some general stuff.

During today's lesson, he had me solve tactical positions from real games, including one from his own classical tournament game. After I calculated the position, he told me I had found two winning lines in a few seconds that he himself hadn't seen during the match.

At the end of the lesson he said: “In case no one has told you, you are a really good chess player.”.

He also mentioned that the tactical patterns he showed me are usually expected to be solved by 2300 rated players in 1-2 seconds, and that I was "finding them in 3 seconds", and followed it up with “I'm really impressed right now.”

As an adult beginner whom is highly self-critical, hearing that from a titled player honestly felt incredibly rewarding.

I don't want to go on medication for this, but I spiral in my obsessive thinking basically every night.

Have medications helped you, if so, how and in what way?

I pursue hobbies which I don't want medication to affect.

It's pissing me off at this point.

When I like (or dislike) comments, it turns red, but if I refresh the page, it's still red, but the upvote didn't count.

For instance: A user has one like, and when I like it, it turns red and says ”2“, but when I refresh the page, it says ”1“ (it remains red). This happens in every community.

I can feel tired, but feel much more awake during and post playing. Probably due to the amount of attention and concentration you put into playing chess.

It's often too loud compared to the music you're listening to. On Lichess you can adjust the sound setting of the moves, but I can't find it on Chesscom.