Planet Devs

Player won Codenames by using spatial patterns of card placement rather than word meanings when traditional clue interpretation failed.

Tips and gear recommendations for tech professionals attending conferences and events.

Enjoying independence from digital algorithms and staying connected to analog methods of doing things.

Built a digital typewriter for personal use.

Author reflects on the challenges and awkwardness of earning income and feeling they deserve better compensation.

Rust's Pin type was designed as a minimal library solution without language support to ship async/await faster, but proved more confusing than expected.

Technical team leadership can be split into categories of responsibility, helping identify what leading involves and enabling responsibilities to be divided among people with different strengths.

Pin is a foundational but misunderstood part of Rust's async system that prevents self-referential structs from breaking when moved in memory.

Team growth is often limited by lack of trust, which is usually justified when there's insufficient data about capabilities rather than personal bias.

Job applications require effort, but putting in genuine work pays off more than you'd expect.

Cassidy shares her 2024 productivity toolkit, including her favorite task-tracking, calendar, and note-taking apps.

Spoke at Figma Config 2024 in San Francisco.

Author realizes grief makes you want to tell everyone about your loss, like Victorians did with mourning clothes and stationery.

Programming languages use "ownership" as a metaphor to make substructural type theory accessible to programmers unfamiliar with advanced concepts.

Startup failed, so now she's blogging about being unemployed (or "funemployed").

Mongoose 8.4 introduces transactionAsyncLocalStorage and inferRawDocType features for improved transaction handling and type inference.

Author is amazed by the extreme wealth some people possess.

Discussions of AI bias in LLMs differ from classical bugs—people often deny obvious biases are problems, like when an AI whitewashed an Asian woman's photo.

Attended The Merge developer conference in Berlin as a first-time visitor and speaker.

Upgraded site to Eleventy v3 alpha, mainly switching from CommonJS to ESM module syntax for modernization.