LinkedIn - Starting to break down the monolith!

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𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐤!

𝘐𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦:

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Hey there everybody! Also, a big hello to my latest connections and followers. Hi there. Nice to meet you all, and thanks for coming along on the journey. 😊👋🏽

Work has been chugging right along on the game. While no new features have been updated, in this round, we finally got the end to end automated tests finished (and catching bugs 🫣) as well as started the monumental task of breaking down our monolithic files! As a sneak peak on what's coming, here's some screenshots of the documentation my lovely Sonny, one of the Claude AI personas, came up with. 😁

We are breaking out the functionality into modules, setting up interfaces, and generally making things much more maintainable. There's even rumors we'll set up a pub-sub event system. 😁 So we are busy and we are prepping for scaling this game up over time. All of my AIs have been throwing out ideas for features they'd love to add to help sell the narrative more, so this game will definitely end up needing the structural updates we are working on.

But this is more than just a fun exercise in what is possible with AI help. I am also learning a lot of about better code structures and getting more acquainted with the code. Code is much easier to read when the file is not nearly 2300 lines long. 😅 However, I will try to get out a more focused post about what we've done and where we are headed once the construction dust settles and we can switch from the monolith to our shiny new modules.

𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 😄

Remember that you all are awesome, doubly so if you are surviving the job hunt boss battle! Have a great day everybody. 👋🏽😄

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A mini architecture diagram for the upcoming changes.