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Trying To Get A Job In Video Games Right Now Is Like Crawling Through Hell - Aftermath
The application process has become a dehumanising, demoralising grind
Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath
From line cooks to bike repairs, people who used to be video game developers are being forced to try something new
A Simple Model for Technical Debt
No analogies, no metaphors. This model is based off the excellent paper Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt by Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green. The findings come from the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google based on five years of company-wide engineer sur
Delivery Driven Development
Hypothesis: How engineers go about delivering code to production has an outsized impact on development and long term maintainability of the system. As Software Engineers we often talk about the frames of Building the Right Thing and Building the Thing Right. Both contain a number
Smart zone | AI Coding Dictionary
Early in a session the agent is sharp and focused. As the session grows it drifts into a dumb zone: sloppier, forgetful, more mistakes.
Multithreading and Performance in Unreal
Multithreading and Performance in Unreal BASTIEN CRUETTE There’s a criminal lack of condensed documentation on how to implement actually useful multithreading in Unreal, and also a general difficulty to find a good overview of practices that lead to performant code, so here’s th
All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting
The explosion in vibe coding has created an endless sea of drive-by, unserious, and unmaintained software that is destabilizing longstanding communities.
Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering - Stack Overflow
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective pro
I Love Software Rendering
Sharp pixels, gritty colour banding, and DOS games running at resolutions their own era couldn’t manage. Why I still prefer the software renderer, and why it needs a fast PC.
Jev Meets the Trolley Problem · Zach Landes
I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem.
You Won't Believe The Incredible Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses To Bend - The Autopian
The humble articulated bus gets countless people to work every single day. Under the friendly looks is incredible engineering in plain sight.
Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring - Stack Overflow
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative
Trying to be original everywhere keeps you from getting anywhere
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
The complement of true is true, except when it's false
Consequences of integral promotion, UB on unscoped enums, and why boolean conversion is surprising.
I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity. Here's how. - Alex Moon - tech, innovation, society, play
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
Pirating the Pirates on Notebook | MUBI
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
How Do Traffic Signals Work? — Practical Engineering
If you live in a major city, I can take a pretty good guess at one of your most common frustrations: traffic. In city driving, the journey is rarely better than the destination. In most cases, we just want to get where we’re going. Traffic is not just frustrating, but it has cons