Manav Patel

From the Reading Room

Rebuilding this site from scratch

2026-07-04

I rebuilt this site from the ground up: a React + Express + MongoDB stack replaced with a statically-exported Next.js site. No backend, no database — content lives in code and Markdown, committed to the repo.

The other change: a playable chess engine lives on this site now. It's a small minimax + alpha-beta search, in the same spirit as some of my published research on chess engines. Consider it a standing invitation — go try to beat it.

More posts here over time as I ship things worth writing about.

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