Planet Devs

Writer experiences a confusing disconnect between the language they hear and the language they think in.

Employee shares their experience after working at Contenda for approximately two months.

Use slots to pass Markdown components to React/Preact components in Astro.

bstr 1.0 is a Rust library for string operations on byte sequences that are UTF-8 by convention, not guaranteed like built-in strings.

Tips for documenting and managing shared knowledge across teams to improve collaboration and information access.

Using unwrap() in Rust is acceptable in test/example code or when a panic indicates a bug, despite ongoing confusion about its proper usage.

Introductory blog post with placeholder-style content that acknowledges the traditional "Hello, world" programming greeting.

Person with poor eyesight is excited about getting LASIK surgery soon to improve their vision.

The author learned interesting facts about moose and wants to share this newfound knowledge with readers.

Learn strategies for managing and reducing technical debt to prevent it from accumulating and slowing down your development team's progress.

Cassidy customized her Zsh prompt with colors, date, and git info, and shares how to do it.

Author reflects on 10 years as a professional programmer, starting from a paid internship after rediscovering their passion for coding.

Learn how to rename a folder directly on GitHub's website before cloning it to your computer.

Learn how to make newline characters display properly as line breaks when rendering text in React or Vue components.

The ::marker pseudo-element in CSS lets you use Unicode characters instead of plain bullets for list styling.

Great leaders prioritize availability and being present for their team members, which builds trust and stronger relationships.

Cassidy shares her 2022 productivity toolkit, covering the task-tracking, calendar, and note-taking apps she currently uses.

LeCun's 1989 paper on handwritten digit recognition was the first real-world neural net trained with backpropagation, remarkably similar to modern deep learning.

Add a lang attribute to Next.js sites for better accessibility with screen readers—it only takes a few lines of code.

Successful products often prioritize familiarity to be instantly understandable, which can be a key advantage over being overly unique.