Lessons about modern life, software development, corporations, and more, told through parables about a small kingdom named Code, in some unknown geography, a...
The storm came in green-black layers, rolling over the treetops with a sound like fabric tearing. The robin pressed herself low against the nest, her breast warm against the pale blue eggs, while the branch bucked beneath her. Rain gathered in her feathers until she seemed made of water herself. Still she stayed. But the branch snapped anyway. The nest fell without dignity; not soaring, not…
He was born with shaking hands And shoulders bent from weather. The harbour boys would laugh and spit, “That lad won’t last forever.” The ropes would burn his fragile palms, The gulls would steal his bait, And every tide that crossed his bow Would leave him cursed by fate. The old men mended nets with ease, They read the stars above, But he could scarcely hold a course Or stomach storms enough.…
The king has opened a new market in the center of his most prosperous province. The best vendors from all around the continent have set up shops and are thrilled with the money they are making. The market makes everything so easy for them too, all they need to do is prepare the product and show up, and then they get paid at the end of the day. For this, the market takes a 30% cut. Millie has…
Millie grew up outside of the walls of the kingdom's castle. Her father would travel into the castle every day and do manual labour jobs, while her mother would do odd jobs around the village to get food and other necessities. She spent her free time in the garden, and now, as she comes-of-age, the garden has grown quite large. It brings her joy to spend time tending to it, but the family plot…
The king returned from a diplomatic visit at a kingdom far, far away. While visiting, he tasted some of the local cuisine and fell in love with one of their foods - the sausage! - and brought back as much as his caravan could carry. He knew that he would run out of the meaty delights one day, so he brought together his kingdom's butchers to examine them and try to reproduce it. One butcher noted…
The kingdom’s blacksmith, Igor, starts his day the same, every day. He gets out of bed, starts his furnace, arranges his tools, and picks up from where he left off yesterday. Today he will finish a set of horseshoes for one of the farriers. Once his furnace is hot enough, he will put some iron ingots into a crucible and stick it into the furnace until the iron melts. He will then pour the molten…