This post is not about Test Driven Development, or testing best practices, or any advanced concept in testing. Instead, the goal is to recommend a simple mindset change that allows for writing testable code without needing to write any tests first. The point of this is to eventually write tests…

In our current world of massively distributed systems, the number of points of failure in software services has skyrocketed. Due to this, the need for a way to gain insights into distributed systems for error detection, debugging, and business analysis has emerged. Enter buzzword, Observability. To break down observability, we’ll…

A short guide on installing a MongoDB server as a service on Android over SSH from scratch. Installing OpenSSH Step one, we need to SSH into our phone. Make sure your computer and android device are on the same network. Download Termux to get access to a unix environment on your android. Termux - Apps on Google Play Termux combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package collection. * Enjoy the bash and zsh…play.google.com

For previous articles in this series, visit https://medium.com/pumpkinbox-blog/procedural-generation-series — In this post, we’ll be setting walls throughout the map, going over breadth first search and starting to post-process the generated grid to get it closer to what our vision of the map is. This is what we’ll achieve by the end of this post: To create the walls you…

For previous articles, visit https://medium.com/pumpkinbox-blog/procedural-generation-series In the last post, we setup a basic project for procedural generation, created a random walker, and let them loose on the world. The result was not consistently satisfying though, and the key in procedural is, well, consistency. By the end of this article, we’ll…

Today, we’ve decided to experiment with procedurally generated maps. There are so many approaches to generating random maps, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, if one was looking to generate a dungeon like map, with rectangular rooms all connected to each other by narrow corridors or…