Planet Devs

LLMs won't replace programmers; they're powerful but flawed tools requiring expert guidance, not autonomous coding savants as hyped by influencers.

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Parent made a laser-cut wooden toy phone with interchangeable screens for their toddler.

Performance engineering teams can halve infrastructure costs by finding deep optimizations beyond standard tools through testing, tuning & debugging.

Learn to create a fading text effect using CSS and minimal JavaScript that applies fade and blur per letter to any HTML element.

Spoke at Chicago's largest mechanical keyboard meetup in 2025.

GitHub Copilot can use commands like #changes to view your code diffs, making your workflow more efficient.

LLMs like Gemini 2.5 PRO amplify coding by catching bugs pre-release, rapidly prototyping ideas, and enabling AI pair programming with expert-level knowledge.

AI tools are genuinely useful for developers, but the speculative hype and quasi-religious fervor around them has become unsustainable—a bubble burst would benefit software's future.

GitHub Copilot Chat now lets you customize responses using personal instructions to match your preferences.

Modern life pits our ancient brains against profit-driven algorithms designed to capture attention; the only real solution is to completely opt out.

Guide for setting up SDL3 framework in XCode 16 on MacOS, navigating code signing issues when creating a Mac app project.

AI agents are now doing development work, fundamentally changing the developer experience beyond just human programmers.

Wealth is relative - even startup exit millionaires have limits, while modest savings and tastes can enable financial independence.

This post demonstrates CSS techniques for styling footnotes, including smooth scrolling, animated highlighting effects, and visual formatting.

Julia Evans released a new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" explaining terminal quirks and inconsistencies for $12.

Saying yes to everything is appealing but not always the best strategy.

The post addresses concerns about "enshittification" after a fundraise, explaining why products decline over time and promising to avoid this trap.

Built a custom solution for generating social sharing (Open Graph) images for an Astro blog.

Puppeteer can fail on Netlify builds/serverless functions, but there are fixes available.