Planet Devs

Tried Waymo's driverless car service and found it comfortable enough to fall asleep in. The experience was surprisingly pleasant.

AI is transforming hiring, making in-person networking more crucial than ever.

Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft was underrated; he drove strong financials and made key long-term bets (like cloud) that enabled Nadella's later success.

UnpinCell wrapper type could solve generators' self-referential value problem by enabling pinned references to work with existing traits like Iterator.

Tutorial on building a React hook for adding keyboard shortcuts to applications with example code.

A new design for pinned places in Rust that avoids "pinned fields" and instead uses a more consistent approach with Rust's existing features.

Creating HTML tables with both horizontal scrolling and sticky headers is technically challenging but achievable with CSS.

Author shares their response to a question about how they increased their visibility.

The puzzle editor is stepping down from Jumblie, finding the work difficult and unrewarding despite being enjoyable.

Sleep should never be taken for granted—it's truly magical.

GitHub Copilot extensions are now buildable - learn how to create and test your own custom extensions.

Taking a break from blogging to focus on writing "Logic for Programmers." Returning early 2025, but newsletter continues.

Buildless web development lets you edit files directly without compilation or build steps, mirroring the simpler workflows of early web design.

Having side hobbies and projects is valuable to pursue alongside your main activities.

The author stays constantly busy because it's their default mode of operating.

Singing lessons for karaoke became a journey of self-discovery and learning to be authentic.

Headless CMS editing requires visual previews, but static sites need rebuilds. Live previews solve the iterative content editing problem.

Browsers have built-in APIs for creating microphone recording components in React without needing external libraries.

JavaScript variable assignment and referencing can behave unexpectedly. Learn why these quirks occur.

CSS gradients can be layered as backgrounds to create effects like marker-style text highlights.