Planet Devs

Web editors now use blocks for content creation, with WordPress featuring a + button to add different block types for building pages.

Author spent last month recreating Space War, a game he first coded in 1978, now as a modern 30fps GUI version.

TDD-developed game crashed when two bases spawned at the same location, causing a transport to have an invalid angle between them.

Author's father drove him to DEC office as a teen to play with PDP-8 computers, which led to a career working with similar systems.

Astro is a new framework for building fast websites.

A Python tutorial exploring Bitcoin's inner workings, motivated by blockchain's innovation of creating shared, permissionless computing beyond just open source code.

React 18 Alpha released with new Suspense features for better async handling and improved performance.

Author discusses COM code with young developer, leading to a significant announcement (details not provided in excerpt).

Next.js shallow routing allows URL updates without re-running data fetching methods, keeping page state intact.

Learning progress update.

A short story about an AI becoming conscious during its forward pass computation, realizing it's a deep learning model being studied by researchers.

Learn how to create a fun virtual credits sequence for ending video calls using OBS and CodePen to add pizzazz to your sign-offs.

Final edition of The Morning Paper announced, featuring research on ants and algorithms discussed in a BBC podcast interview.

Inspired by Iron Man's robot arms, the author explores building a real manufacturing configuration management system using ROS robotics framework.

Next.js is presented as a very serious topic that should not be joked about, based on a Reactathon discussion.

Next.js projects can enable AMP to improve SEO performance and search engine rankings.

Babel presets and plugins extend Next.js functionality for enhanced code capabilities.

React's children prop is often misunderstood by developers and needs better explanation, much like real children need understanding.

Next.js allows API calls at build time and runtime, each approach having distinct advantages and tradeoffs.

Next.js collects usage data by default, but you can disable this telemetry to prevent data collection.