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Building a Multiplayer Gaming System – Part 1 – Introduction

By shadowcow May 25, 2024Uncategorized

Greetings! Welcome to Part 1 of Building a Multiplayer Gaming System. Throughout this series we are going to design a system that supports a turn-based 1v1 multiplayer gaming experience from…

Two Kinds of Learning in Turn-Based Game AI

By shadowcow April 20, 2024Uncategorized

AI is all the rage, and for some folks, it's just magic. Well, it's not magic. It's an algorithmic system based on combining decision models with data analysis. We're going…

Natural Language is a Bad Way to Communicate

By shadowcow April 11, 2024Uncategorized

There is a general push in the software industry towards using more natural language. Generative AI tools allow people to build software using natural language. Behavior Driven Development methodologies use…

Building an Interactive Generative AI for Music in TypeScript – Part 1

By shadowcow March 3, 2024Uncategorized

Have you ever wanted to listen to some music but couldn't quite find what you wanted? Or have you ever wanted to make some music, but you aren't a trained…

Building a 1v1 Game Matchmaking Service in Go – Part 3

By shadowcow December 7, 2023Uncategorized

This article is part 3 of a series. Part 1 - Domain ModelingPart 2 - Turning Domain Model into Code The associated code repo is here. Deployment At the end of…

Building a 1v1 Game Matchmaking Service in Go – Part 2

By shadowcow November 26, 2023Uncategorized

This article is part 2 of a series. Part 1 - Domain Modeling The associated code repo is here. Turning the Domain Model into Code In Part 1, we modeled…

Building a 1v1 Game Matchmaking Service in Go

By shadowcow November 22, 2023Uncategorized

This article is Part 1 of a series. Part 2 - Turning the Domain Model into Code A 1v1 Game Matchmaking Service is a service that pairs up opponents for…

How AI will change Software Development

By shadowcow November 8, 2023Uncategorized

Lessons from Mathematical Optimization - the basis for current AI Machine Learning and many parts of current 'AI' systems are built on top of the field of Mathematical Optimization. There…

Taming Concurrent Code – State Transitions vs Flows

By shadowcow October 7, 2023Uncategorized

Concurrent code is everywhere. Anytime you have multiple operations that can take a little time and happen simultaneously, you've got concurrent code. If you are reading and writing files, interacting…

The Duality of State and Events

By shadowcow September 30, 2023Uncategorized

Duality has different meanings in different domains, but the essential idea is that of 'two sides of the same coin'. There is one object, or one entity, and there are…