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From the archives: 2025-11-09 at 21:08 PM

We should rethink how we teach people to code

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/notes_teaching_coding

We should rethink how we teach people to code | deadSimpleTech

It's fair to say that the tech industry at the moment is not in a good place. Software engineers tend to be detached, demotivated and unwilling to care much about the work they're doing beyond their paycheck. Code quality is poor on the whole, made worse by the current spate of vibe coding and whatever other febrile ideas come out of Sam Altman's brain. Much of the software that we write is either useless or actively hurts people. And the talented, creative people that we most need in the industry are pushed to the margins of it.

deadSimpleTech

noc Mar 21, 2025

Álvaro García Mar 21, 2025

Interesting public domain assets: "The Universal Animation Library - 120+ animations, created using a universal humanoid rig, which is compatible with Unreal Engine, Godot and Unity" https://quaternius.itch.io/universal-animation-library

#gamedev #gameart #indiedev #publicdomain #cc0 #unity3d #godotengine #unrealengine

Universal Animation Library by Quaternius

More than 120 animations, ready to retarget in any engine

itch.io

noc Mar 8, 2025

Iris Mar 8, 2025

A new blog post, in which I go off at some very silly leadership books that I read:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/into_the_void

Into the (leadership) void - A review of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Seven Strategic Questions | deadSimpleTech

As with an awful lot of literature meant to be consumed by a primarily elite audience (in this case, the executive class), both Simon and Lencioni write as though the work done by their audience is the important work that clearly needs to be focused on the most. In the context of executive leadership, this means that executives are the main figures written about in both these books, and to some extent that's broadly expected.

deadSimpleTech

noc Oct 17, 2024

mcc Oct 17, 2024

My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.

Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state https://x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.

The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.

X Terms of Service

Read X's Terms of Service to understand the rules governing your access of all Twitter services.