I want to introduce a fabulous game. It requires strategic thinking, courage, psychology, negotiation skills — and the occasional backstabbing. It is aptly named «Diplomacy». It is set in Europe of 1901 in the prelude to World War I. The game’s objective is to occupy at least half of the…

Immutable yet fun — In this article I want to show you how to implement the Snake game in Swift and — as you probably never heard of it before — introduce you to the Declarative Domain (DD) Paradigm, which I’ll be using. The goal is to produce a game fast and effectively while…

or: Did I Discover a New Paradigm? «Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand» — Martin Fowler I want to introduce you to a code organization style that I discovered and I believe constitutes a new paradigm. The goal of its design is to write smaller…

What I find quite interesting that none of the so-called agile frameworks takes the production step into account. Or in other words: how do you expect to be agile if the code you are working with is a chaotic bowl of mess, often called Spaghetti Code, but more accuratly described as Barb Wire Code — as we do get trapped in it. I have developed an architecture to adress those concerns. https://vikingosegundo.gitlab.io/posts/agile-development-and-architecture/