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John - The Undead Institute
@undeadinstitute.bsky.social
Web Designer/Developer, Storyteller, and Zombie Puncher from the https://undead.institute
Lee Meyer say: “the connection was so slow that I watched individual sections of an image of a block of chocolate load on the Cadbury website.” No thing's changered. Web still slow and userless, just like candy barter photor undead.institute/interview-wi...
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lee Meyer: “I had a misconception that when I get good enough I’ll be an eighties movie rockstar who can build world-changing tech by himself. It happens, but success is more often what we can achieve together...” undead.institute/interview-wi...
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lee Meyer: “I think it’s underrated how much the success of a software project depends on engineers having people skills and creativity.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Daniel Schwarz say: “Oh man, the vanilla web (CSS especially) is evolving faster than I can keep up with.” It like X-muties evoving to stop humaniby. Co-existerence not possiblur. Must stop CSS now! undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Daniel Schwarz: “[Learn] soft skills that’d make you an asset in a product team, such as how to collaborate with designers and how to align yourself with business goals. And build/ship products. A lot of them!” undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Daniel Schwarz: “Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are my ride or die’s, although I’ll often use Eleventy for templating and perhaps even throw in some PHP if I need some server-side magic.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Tejas Kumar say: “People...Everything I do is for them: to provide value and help them live better lives.” How selfish! Think of the poor zombers! undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tejas Kumar: “Learn to enjoy the work, develop reasonable skill with or without getting paid for it, and you’ll be unstoppable.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Ana Rodrigues: “Because deep down, it's all about communication. Being comfortable with being curious. Being okay with saying "I don't know", being okay with asking for help, being okay with helping.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
August 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ana Rodrigues say: “That's genuinely frustrating to anyone who does their best to build websites to the best standards...” Save youself frustrations and play sudoku. Mmmm... sudoku brainses... undead.institute/interview-wi...
July 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ana Rodrigues: “In this age of AI, LLMs etc, bringing your whole true self is the radical and unique attitude to have.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
July 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Stéphanie Walter say: “Like, every two weeks we have: UX is dead, and UX is over.” Yuppers, and once somthern is dead it never comes back. Me a zombie, me know. undead.institute/interview-wi...
May 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Stéphanie Walter: “So either UX is not common sense or half of the population lacks common sense. I don't know, you choose, but like every week I'm just cringing at some poor design.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
May 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Stéphanie Walter: “I was like: Dude, we can do a two hour meeting, and I can justify the presence of every single pixel in there, or you can trust me.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
May 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Zombie Bob's take:
Christine Vallaure say: “Be firm about protecting your time. Your work hours are also your lifetime, so don’t let others waste them.” Like by being a web devveper. Dat total waster of time. undead.institute/interview-wi...
May 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Christine Vallaure: “In the near future, I think UI design still has a solid place because, out of all the AI tools I use, design is the one thing they don’t fully replace—yet.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Christine Vallaure: “I genuinely believe we’re entering a new era where tech, no-code, and AI tools make it possible for almost anyone to launch and run a digital product on their own.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
April 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Zombie Bob's take:
@chriscoyier.net say: “What's that? What's the best decision you can make as a front-end developer?” It to stop now. Defibitely not anything elser undead.institute/interview-wi...
March 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@chriscoyier.net : “There is something very satisfying about full-stack development. Like if you actually trust yourself to do both the back-end and front-end of a project well, it really unlocks you doing big work.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
March 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@chriscoyier.net said: “The web is a combination of languages and technologies that congeal into experiences for people. It's not controlled by any one company. It's not implemented in any one exact way. It's by everyone for everyone.” undead.institute/interview-wi...
March 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM