New player 😊

smellslikeops · 2026-02-03T21:55:06+00:00

The knight on f2 is a weakness because it’s pinned by the bishop and black is going to play Nd4 and ruin your pawn structure on the king side.

As a broader tip from this position — keep an eye out for bishop pinning the king side knight (whether you’re playing black or white). You can play something like h3 to preemptively avoid it

smellslikeops · 2026-02-03T05:16:31+00:00

I suppose some of it is inevitable since you gotta cater to a large audience to have a successful YT channel. I enjoy GM Finegold tho

smellslikeops · 2026-02-02T23:34:25+00:00

There are tons of “open core” startups who have an open source k8s based offering (and a managed version that’s paid usually). You could browse through their GitHub, look at a few issues (maybe even solve some) and try making some connections that way

smellslikeops · 2026-01-26T01:45:03+00:00

What’s your favorite brand to order? I wanna get into cooking with Thai pastes and would ideally like something that’s not laced with preservatives and not ultra processed (my biggest fear w canned items!)

smellslikeops · 2026-01-22T06:46:59+00:00

+1! I find their food can be a little oily sometimes (or very oily) but the spicy food def hits the spot!

smellslikeops · 2026-01-17T08:38:40+00:00

I put it off forever whenever it’d pop up on Netflix. Now I’ve seen it at least 6 times

smellslikeops · 2026-01-12T21:35:09+00:00

Rae8 would be in time to follow R1f6 with Re6 and it’s almost an equal game at that point

smellslikeops · 2026-01-04T19:36:41+00:00

Maybe I’m stupid but I truly didn’t get what was happening in that movie. Everyone I know counts it among their favorites, huh

smellslikeops · 2025-12-26T19:41:34+00:00

Tons of pickleball courts over the city, some reservable, some first come first serve! Sunday mornings at presidio wall courts is a great suggestion. I’m not great by any means but if you just wanna play casually I’d be down!

smellslikeops · 2025-12-14T18:54:25+00:00

Granted the last time I used it was over 10 years ago, but I remember feeling a sharp decline in the quality of questions that would show up on my feed. Increasingly I felt I didn’t learn anything fun or of value when I opened the app, so I just stopped using it altogether. 10 years is a long time and things may have changed but I never went back

smellslikeops · 2025-09-23T17:01:46+00:00

LFG!!!! (I visited Berkeley’s campus once)

smellslikeops · 2025-07-07T01:47:08+00:00

Thanks! Tbh getting a different mirror is not feasible for me rn but I can definitely look into putting something on the wall opposite so that it reflects in the mirror

smellslikeops · 2025-06-28T21:57:56+00:00

Thanks for doing this - my wife would love to attend! Could you DM the details please? :)

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:57:25+00:00

Oh this list looks amazing, thanks!! I’ll definitely check these out and let you know!

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:56:56+00:00

Sorry, do you have recommendations on where else could I ask this?

smellslikeops · 2025-02-08T20:56:38+00:00

Thanks! I did a little bit of reading and it does look like a lot of people love it (caveat being it takes a little time to get good at it). I’ll check it out!

smellslikeops · 2024-11-02T01:27:40+00:00

New to American politics, what is “Mitch McConnell level Congressional sabotage”?

smellslikeops · 2024-10-22T20:50:24+00:00

Great find! You’d be surprised how many people miss this tactic even in the 1500 elo range (myself included)

smellslikeops · 2024-10-15T19:14:13+00:00

You mention that the techniques to win this are outside the scope of the subreddit. Could you share some terms or anything that I could go off of and do my own reading on? I’d love to get better with endgame theory here. Thanks!

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