Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Bramus Van Damme all about CSS, what the CSS Working Group is, how he got good at blogging, setting custom property types in CSS, view transition API, and so much more.

Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Bramus Van Damme 02:29 Who is Bramus? Bramus Van Damme - Developer Relations Engineer - LinkedIn Original Content – Bram.us Bramus on Twitter (@bramus) bramus on GitHub (Bramus!) 03:33 What is the CSS Working Group? CSS WG Blog w3c/csswg-drafts: CSS Working Group Editor Drafts 11:18 How did you get so good at blogging? CSS Trig functions 14:02 Scroll Driven Animations Bram.us: Scroll linked animations with scrolltimeline and viewtimeline/ Chrome Dev blog: Scroll driven animations/ MDN Animation timeline Scroll-driven-animations.style 25:53 What’s going on with Houdini? IsHoudiniReadyYet.com CSS Props and Vals 27:09 Why do you need to set a custom property type in CSS? 29:08 How do you debug values in CSS? 30:12 What is Scope Styling? 34:50 But when can I use it? 36:18 What’s the status of the view transition API? View Transitions 40:53 What are you looking forward to in CSS? 42:19 Would CSS ever get a strict mode? 47:05 Supper Club Questions ZSH - THE Z SHELL zsh-users/antigen: The plugin manager for zsh. web.dev Blog - Chrome Developers Welcome to Feedly 52:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Meetups Shameless Plugs Scroll-driven-animations.style Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about not becoming dependent on Copilot, CSS variable limitations, finding Sick Picks, lodash hate, and more!

Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:55 Ice, ice baby 02:01 Reactathon Reactathon returns May 2-3, 2023 The edge cloud platform behind the best of the web | Fastly 04:49 Submit your question for our next potluck 05:24 How do you suggest adding form / database to Svelte? Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps Astro 08:18 What can’t go into a CSS custom prop? 12:42 Are there any really good certifications for Javascript or general full stack development? 16:21 What is the most exciting thing about teaching programming for both of you? 19:37 What is the most challenging thing you have ever overcome in this field? 21:55 How can junior to mid-level devs make the most out of GitHub Copilot while avoiding getting dependent on it and hurting their abilities in the long run? 26:23 Any tips on driving a culture of code quality in a team? 30:28 How soon should Sentry be brought into a new project being built from scratch? 33:11 Is there a place where I can search through all the Sick Picks? Syntax Sick Picks 34:40 Why is box-sizing: border-box; not the default? 37:51 Is using lodash in a NextJS web application a terrible idea nowadays? 40:42 What is the best practice for storing JWT token? 43:53 Any tips on converting ajax requests to use Fetch API? patch-package - npm 45:11 Any suggestions for tips for updating a very dated React Native codebase? 50:56 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Tales of Taboo podcast Spotify / Apple Podcasts Wes: Rubber Flooring Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons your node_modules folder gets so large, and what you can do to help keep the file size down.

Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 00:51 The punching bag of Javascript DaisyDisk 02:03 Spoiler alert - it’s text 04:49 What actually increases the size? 07:29 Types 09:27 Polyfills 11:09 Raycast Snippets and BetterTouchTool 12:44 Babel 15:08 Markdown 15:52 Translations 18:23 What is the solution? Raycast Bundlephobia | Size of npm dependencies Better Touch Tool Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Adam Argyle about a ton of new CSS features that have arrived or are coming soon, as well as his new site Gradient.style.

Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:05 Guest introduction Adam on Bluesky Adam on Twitter 01:48 CSS buckets New CSS Relative Units · January 6, 2023 03:16 rex rch ric rlh 08:06 Gradient.style CSS HD Gradients Open Props: sub-atomic styles 13:49 What are style queries vs container queries vs state queries? una.im | Style Queries Getting Started with Style Queries - Chrome Developers CSS Container Style Queries | Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc 18:09 Trig functions Trigonometric functions in CSS CSS Trigonometric Functions: cos() and sin(): dots on a circle 19:57 Live transitions Understand Disney’s 12 principles of animation | Creative Bloq 25:08 View transitions View Transitions Demo View Transitions API - Web APIs | MDN 26:01 Text-wrap balance CSS text-wrap: balance - Chrome Developers 26:45 Text-wrap pretty 27:44 What’s the future of the browser landscape? 31:44 nth-child(An+B [of S]) 33:06 Cascade layers 34:40 CSS Nesting 38:03 Animate discrete properties 39:42 Linear function Linear easing generator 41:33 Media query range syntax 42:04 Subgrid everywhere 44:41 Media query range and variables? UI Elements - Basics, Best Practice, and Built Ins — Syntax Podcast 612 45:32 env variables Hasty Treat - CSS Nesting 1 — Syntax Podcast 343 46:59 Animation composition 49:50 Select menu HTML element 52:16 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Shameless Plugs Onewheel // Future Motion Adam Argyle Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for hosting your app including some of the big players, but also others you may not have heard of.

Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:06 Explaining basic concepts in hosting providers 07:55 How is hosting priced? 10:09 The big names in hosting Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Microsoft Azure DigitalOcean | The Cloud for Builders Sales Cloud Flightcontrol — AWS Without Pain Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad — Syntax Podcast 589 16:29 Render Render 23:50 Vercel Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams 28:04 Heroku Cloud Application Platform | Heroku 31:58 Digital Ocean 36:10 Linode Create your account - Linode 38:34 Netlify Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify The Deno Show — Syntax Podcast 322 Decap CMS | Open-Source Content Management System 46:30 Fly Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly Railway 54:19 Cloudflare Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare 00:43 Deno deploy Deno Deploy | Deno 03:04 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Automators - Relay FM Wes: Dropbox.com Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Signals - what are signals and why is everyone talking about them suddenly?

Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:40 Chipping away at projects 03:20 WTF are signals? Signals Framework reimagined for the edge! - Qwik SolidJS · Reactive Javascript Library Zone Vanilla 09:03 What are the boundaries on signals? 10:49 Why are signals so popular now? 15:57 When wouldn’t you use signals? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dylan Jhaveri about his work at Mux, how Mux ingests and spits out video, and where Mux fits in a tech stack for developers working with video and audio.

Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:27 Who is Dylan Jhaveri? Dylan (@dylanjha) The Internet’s video infrastructure | Mux Mux Player 03:04 Why did you build Mux Player? FFmpeg FFmpeg WASM 06:19 How did you chose to go with web components? CanIUse Mediasource 09:36 What is Mux? 15:20 Can you stitch or clip video via the API with Mux? 18:07 Do you think hls will be supported in Chromium or Firefox? 21:56 How does Mux process videos into 5 versions? 26:35 Is Web assembly in use for video? 27:55 Has Mux researched AI for video? 31:13 Building a podcast transcription video 36:49 Do you have to use MP4? What about webM? 39:36 Media Chrome video player Elements for building media players 44:58 What’s Mux Data? Mux Data 49:33 Slick Mux website Mux.com 52:13 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Cruise Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about UI elements and best practices with UI elements, as well as UI elements that exist in browsers.

Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:10 Making demos for fun 02:47 Why we’re talking UI elements 03:48 Bad UI elements in the browser Syntax 602: Modals, Popups, Popovers, Lightboxes Progress 10:47 Decent UI elements in browser 19:49 Enter Open UI Open UI 34:39 Accordion hunks 38:15 Pop overs 42:15 Focus group 46:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fishskyn Wes: Flavacol & Butter Flavoured Coconut Oil Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry replays Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk all things Bluesky, the AT Protocol it’s built in, the terminology of Bluesky, and how the API currently works.

Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 00:53 Welcome to the Bluesky Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky 03:14 What could the new Twitter be? 07:56 What is Bluesky? Nostr Bluesky Twitter Blue Bluesky Staging Bluesky FAQ 10:25 Why is social media important? 14:01 What is AT Protocol? 22:06 Lexicon for Bluesky 28:10 Small group of devs building Bluesky Cravings by Chrissy Teigen | Fun Recipes & Cookware 29:54 Blocking issues 31:53 Bluesky API Samy on Darknet Diaries ep61 Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry) Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Zach Lloyd about how Google Sheets works, why Zach wanted to build Warp, why did they use Rust to write Warp in, is Warp going to come to Windows, and more!

Show Notes

00:20 Welcome

01:12 Who is Zach Lloyd?

Zack on Twitter

Zack on LinkedIn

Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals — Syntax Podcast 579

Warp: The terminal for the 21st century

03:41 How does Google Sheets work?

GWT

13:38 What is Warp and why did you build it?

Introducing Warp

16:50 Why did you build Warp in Rust?

Rust Programming Language

Harfbuzz

Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases

23:20 How would you move Warp to Windows?

26:02 How would you run Warp on the web?

31:24 How are the blocks done inside Warp?

36:23 Would Warp ever add a shell?

40:04 Is better completion support coming to Warp?

44:42 Warp AI features

52:08 Supper Club questions

56:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Tonal | The World’s Smartest Home Gym Machine For Strength & Fitness Shameless Plugs Join Us | Warp Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the tech stack they used to create the Syntax giveaway site for the Sentry + Syntax announcement week. What were the features of the site, how’d they generate proper codes, and how’d they stop developers from hacking the system?

Show Notes 00:07 How to do a giveaway and distribute it? 04:26 Building in the spirit of Syntax 05:44 The tech stack SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript Syntax × Sentry MMXXIII | Product Blog • Sentry PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform My Places - Google My Maps sveltekit-basic-auth/hooks.server.ts at main · ghostdevv/sveltekit-basic-auth Voucherify: Free Random Codes Generator 09:48 Hosted on Vercel Vercel 13:04 What are the features of the site? 19:10 Generating the codes properly 26:48 Releasing locked coupon codes 29:13 Client to server side connections 32:56 Stopping developers from gaming the giveaway 46:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - IMDb Wes: The Strong National Museum of Play Shameless Plugs Scott: Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about RPC, what it means, why are we talking about it now, tRPC, and will RPC take off?

Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:51 What does RPC mean? 04:52 Why are we talking RPC now? 10:27 Hype around RPC Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato — Syntax Podcast 577 11:05 Isn’t this just a REST endpoint? 13:23 Considerations around RPC 16:11 What about tRPC? Supper Club × tRPC With Alex KATT Johansson — Syntax Podcast 526 18:08 Will RPC take off? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Donata and Hans Skillrud of Termageddon on GDPR, privacy policies, cookie pop ups, and the various legal and ethical reasons to implement them properly.

Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:47 Who are Donata and Hans? Donata Stroink-Skillrud Esq., CIPP on Twitter Hans Skillrud on Twitter Termageddon Termageddon on Instagram Termageddon on LinkedIn 03:39 What are privacy policies and a terms of service? 4 Things to Look for in a Privacy Policy Generator - Termageddon Why accessibility is important when it comes to cookie consent - Termageddon 09:15 Does scrolling to the bottom and pretending to read terms work? 10:49 Do people ever read the terms of service? 15:57 Do companies ever actually get in trouble for violating privacy? 20:06 What is GDPR and the impact on small business owners? 32:30 Cookie war and pop ups 35:40 Essential cookies 42:42 Alternatives to Google Analytics The Google Analytics alternative without compromise - Fathom Analytics Self-hosted website analytics | Ackee 43:39 Denying cookies, but still able to create accounts? 48:57 Is there legal concerns with AI? Can ChatGPT (AI) write your Privacy Policy? - Termageddon 56:25 What is Termageddon? 58:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× EPIX From TV Series Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about type guards vs type casting, crypto usage, feedback for Syntax, custom status pages, SEO and metadata, uploading images, home automation, and more!

Show Notes 00:12 Welcome 01:23 Scott’s new gear MT-48 Volt USB Audio Interfaces 07:36 Are type guards safer and superior to type casting? 13:51 I know you guys (lightly) rag on Crypto, but do you see any use-case there for proof-of-personhood? 23:34 Where do I give feedback outside of Twitter? User Feedback | Sentry Documentation 27:19 Do you have custom status pages created for your platforms? UptimeRobot: Free Website Monitoring Service Privacy Badger Status.io - Hosted Status Pages Statuspage | Atlassian DigitalOcean Status 35:12 Is metadata only good for SEO? Does SEO matter on pages you can only view if you’re logged in? 39:00 How do you upload images from authenticated users? 46:30 What do you think of Zed? Zed - Code at the speed of thought 53:21 I’ve got ADHD - any tips for focusing and staying on track? 56:54 How do I convince my partner to accept more home automation? 02:15 What kind of tools and processes do you use and find effective when learning? Obsidian Mind Map & Brainstorm Ideas - MindNode 06:42 Would it make any sense to use the Fetch API with a long running stream? 08:31 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Project Farm Wes: Splatypus Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS Color Functions, the benefits of dynamic css color, relative color syntax, color contrast, and color mix.

Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 00:49 Why we’re talking CSS Color Functions 01:57 Benefits of dynamic CSS color 03:14 Relative color syntax 06:51 Color contrast 09:26 Color mix Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nicholas Zakas about his creation of ESLint, what’s coming up in ESLint, and his work as a coach and mentor for programmers.

Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:20 Guest introduction Human Who Codes Nicholas C. Zakas (@nzakas@fosstodon.org) Twitter @slicknet nzakas on GitHub @humanwhocodes) on Instagram Human Who Codes on YouTube 04:24 Why did you want to build ESLint? 09:08 How does ESLint work? 13:25 How do you work on a project for a decade? 17:12 At what point do you pay attention to JavaScript proposed changes? 20:37 Config systems in JavaScript 31:18 ESLint in Rust? 41:07 Are we going to see ESLint for more languages? 47:06 What kind of coaching do you do for programmers? 02:46 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Apollo Neuro Shameless Plugs Understanding JavaScript Promises Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott go through all the features of Sass and decide where we are at with Native CSS alternatives, giving each feature a rating of replaceable, plausible, or missing.

Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:17 Easter updates 04:17 Getting into Sass 06:03 What is PostCSS? 09:52 CSS Variables 13:49 CSS Nesting CSS Nesting - Chrome Developers postcss-plugins/plugins/postcss-nesting at main · csstools/postcss-plugins 23:13 Colors CSS5 Color Functions — Syntax Podcast 479 29:08 CSS Looping 34:20 Mixins or extends 39:34 CSS Partials Features - PostCSS Preset Env - CSSTools 44:29 CSS Math 49:40 Functions Is Houdini Ready Yet? 52:04 Firefox and Safari support 55:08 Back to Functions 56:21 BEM Syntax 58:51 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Solar Lantern Wes: Cotton Candy Machine Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through the differences between modals, popups, popovers, lightboxes, and dialog boxes.

Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 02:25 What’s popping up? 02:59 What’s a modal? 08:33 Pop overs and lightboxes 10:41 Explicit dismiss and light dismiss 11:30 Inert property inert 16:30 Backdrop pseudo element Dialog with animation 19:26 Dialog 28:12:11 Making accessibility easier const showButton = document.getElementById('showDialog'); const favDialog = document.getElementById('favDialog'); const outputBox = document.querySelector('output'); const selectEl = favDialog.querySelector('select'); const confirmBtn = favDialog.querySelector('#confirmBtn'); // "Show the dialog" button opens the modally showButton.addEventListener('click', () => { favDialog.showModal(); }); // "Favorite animal" input sets the value of the submit button selectEl.addEventListener('change', (e) => { confirmBtn.value = selectEl.value; }); // "Confirm" button of form triggers "close" on dialog because of [method="dialog"] favDialog.addEventListener('close', () => { outputBox.value = `ReturnValue: ${favDialog.returnValue}.`; }); Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nate Weinert, creator of Tamagui, about what Tamagui is, how styling works in React native, building and designing the Tamagui website, and more.

Show Notes 00:29 Welcome 01:22 Who is Nate Weinert? Nate (@natebirdman) natew on GitHub Tamagui — React Native + Web UI kit tamagui: The worlds fastest React UI kit also happens to work on Native + Web seamlessly 🙏 02:34 What is Tamagui? 04:02 How does styling work in React native? 05:35 What is React native web? 08:27 What does Tamagui do besides styling? 14:38 How did you build and design the Tamagui website? Stitches — CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework 16:50 What are the docs made with? 20:25 What are Atomic Styles? 26:16 How is layout handled in react native? 29:26 Where are things going in the React world? App.js Conference 2023 react-native-reanimated - npm 37:45 Supper Club questions iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement 47:15 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ABEO Footwear - Shop Biomechanical Sandals, Shoes and Orthotics Shameless Plugs foobully - Twitch Tamagui — React Native + Web UI kit Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In the 600th episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the big announcement about Syntax’s future, exciting new opportunities coming for the show, and more!

Show Notes 00:11 Scott’s big announcement 00:58 Our big announcement 01:39 Guest introduction David Cramer (@zeeg) Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry Sentry (@getsentry) 02:28 Background on how we got here 05:53 What does this mean for the podcast? 08:58 Why did Sentry want to partner with Syntax? 15:39 What does this mean for more + better Syntax? 18:56 We want to hear from you 23:17 Clarifications 23:42 What’s David Cramer’s background? 31:44 Helping spread the Syntax vibe World Famous HOTBOYS 35:40 Silly questions 37:52 What’s the ROI on Wes’ TikToks? 38:37 Is Syntax going to become purple? 40:46 The new Syntax website 47:16 Giveaway coming! 51:32 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× David Cramer: Vitest | A blazing fast unit test framework powered by Vite Scott: Valley Heat Podcast - A Podcast About The Neighborhood Wes: CCS - The Premier Online Skate Shop for Skateboards & Skate Gear Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk all things oAuth - what is oAuth? What terms do you need to understand when working with oAuth? And tips for working with oAuth.

Show Notes 00:26 Welcome Office Space HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more! — Syntax Podcast 590 01:56 What is oAuth? 05:30 Terminology in oAuth 07:52 Once you have a client ID 09:41 The callback URL 12:11 The refresh token 14:09 How a token could be stolen 17:43 State token Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fabian Kägy about modern WordPress development, including what the local dev experience is like, changes to the block editor, how version control is handled, and more!

Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:20 Who is Fabian Kägy? Fabian Kägy Fabian Kaegy (@fabiankaegy) Fabian Kägy (@fabiankaegy) on Instagram fabiankaegy on GitHub 10up | finely crafted websites and tools 03:32 What is the local WordPress development workflow like in 2023? @wordpress/env Free Local WordPress Development 05:35 Why do people still want to use WordPress? Builder.io - Drag & Drop Headless CMS Website Builder — Create a Website in Minutes — Squarespace Website Builder | Wix.com Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content | Docusaurus 09:08 Changes because of the block editor 11:50 Using a JSON file to configure design styles for your site 13:48 What is it like to develop with headless WordPress? 10up/10up-toolkit: Official 10up asset building toolkit. 16:59 Are people using WordPress for applications besides websites? 19:20 What does version control look like in WordPress? 21:57 Are plugins using the database or the file system? 23:38 Is jQuery still a must have for WordPress? 25:30 How do you enqueue JavaScript? 27:56 Does WordPress support live reloading? 28:22 How can you host WordPress on the web? WordPress Hosting | WP Engine® WordPress for the Enterprise | WordPress VIP 29:11 What is the editing experience like in WordPress in 2023? The Composable Content Cloud - Sanity.io WPML - The WordPress Multilingual Plugin Polylang – Making WordPress multilingual 34:01 How is WordPress handling CSS in 2023? 41:44 How do you make WordPress fast? Simplenote Tumblr Pocketcasts 47:23 Where can you learn about WordPress development? Learn WordPress - There’s always more to learn | Learn WordPress 10up - Gutenberg Best Practices | 10up - Gutenberg Best Practices 50:12 With blocks, do you write less PHP? ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress 50:59 Supper Club Questions 55:09 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Watch Shrinking | Apple TV+ Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer coding questions posed by ChatGPT like what’s the difference between rem and em in CSS, the difference between a callback function and a promse in Node, what are Fastify plugins, and more!

Show Notes 00:19 The premise for this Stump’d 05:46 Scott’s weekend story 09:36 What is the difference between a for loop and a while loop in JavaScript? 11:11 What is the difference between the “em” and “rem” units in CSS, and when would you use each of them? 13:15 What is the difference between a callback function and a promise in Node.js? 14:57 In JavaScript, what is the difference between a function declaration, a function expression, and an arrow function, and how do they affect the concept of hoisting? 18:39 How do you define a custom scalar type in GraphQL? 21:30 With Deno, can you provide an example of an experimental API that requires the “–unstable” flag and explain its purpose? 26:59 What’s the difference between a div and a span? 28:01 What is aspect ratio? 29:07 If it’s not supported by all browsers, how could you maintain aspect ratio? 30:11 Can you explain the purpose of the beforeUpdate lifecycle function in Svelte, and provide a simple use case for it? 32:33 What is the difference between unknown and any in TypeScript, and when should each be used? 34:42 In TypeScript, what is a mapped type, and how can you use it to create a new type that makes all properties of an existing type optional? 36:21 What are Fastify plugins, and how can they be used to extend the functionality of a Fastify application? 37:57 In React, what is the purpose of the React.memo higher-order component, and how does it help improve the performance of a functional component? 39:53 How would you create a custom HTML element that is styled with CSS and has dynamic behavior using JavaScript? 41:57 What is the Intersection Observer API, and how can you use it to implement infinite scrolling in a web application? 49:00 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Rodge Tapes Wes: Shenzhen Rebow Technology - Neon Sign Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the fact that import maps are in Safari Technical preview, and what that means for web developers.

Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 02:16 Import maps just dropped 04:09 Which browsers support it? 06:01 What is a map? 06:40 How does the syntax work? 09:35 What about dependency resolution? 10:25 What about bundlers? 13:17 How does this work with Deno? Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Import Maps | Manual | Deno whatwg/fs · Issue #5 · wintercg/proposal-common-minimum-api 20:12 What about with node? Support import maps and bare import specifiers · Issue #43326 · microsoft/TypeScript Policies | Node.js v17.9.1 Documentation 21:22 What about Typescript? 22:43 Downsides to import maps Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Justin Fagnani about working with web components, using Lit, how routing and state are handled, thoughts on signals, and what is the future of web components?

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Show Notes

00:49:11 Guest introduction

01:03:00 Sponsor: Sentry

02:02:11 Why do people use React when we have web components and lit?

03:57:14 Who is Justin Fagnani?

Justin Fagnani

Justin Fagnani (@justinfagnani)

Justin Fagnani · GitHub

Justin Fagnani - Fosstodon

Lit (@buildWithLit)

Lit

Google App Maker

04:55:02 What are web components?

The Extensible Web Manifesto

05:59:08 What is the shadow dom?

08:56:02 Was there an intention for a layer on top of web components?

13:22:09 What is Lit?

16:19:23 What are the benefits of using a library for web components?

Custom Elements Everywhere

21:20:14 Why would write in React and not in web components?

24:24:18 How does CSS work with web components and Lit?

28:00:14 Using constructable stylesheets

::part

Constructable stylesheets/

29:58:18 Does Lit do anything with CSS?

32:01:01 Does Lit do routing?

Lit Mobx

34:06:02 How does Lit work with state?

34:52:15 What about signals?

38:49:00 Is Server Side Rendering possible with web components?

41:03:07 What websites are using Lit and/or web components?

44:26:08 What’s the difference between Lit and Polymer?

45:44:17 What is the future of web components?

48:09:14 Supper club questions

GitHub - w3c/csswg-drafts: CSS Working Group Editor Drafts

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55:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about what to do with client projects, testing animations, evaluating front-end frameworks, tools to use when learning, and coding related injuries.

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:25 Sponsor: Sentry 01:22 Landscaping update 02:27 What do you do when you are done a client project? 10:09 Should I keep animations in our tests so our tests match prod behavior? 14:05 How does ChatGPT fill the responses to the prompt? 17:14 What is the best way to evaluate and choose a front-end framework for a project? 21:10 Should functions only be used strictly for code that is going to be re-used? 26:03 What kind of tools and processes do you use when learning? Obsidian Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. 30:19 What are your opinions on using “display: grid” simply to be able use the gap property on the elements inside? 33:57 What do you guys think of being a 1-language dev? 36:38 What are some tips you have to push back on requirements from clients? 41:11 Have you guys ever had any coding related stress injuries, like back issues or carpal tunnel? MoErgo Glove80 Wireless Split Ergonomic Keyboard GitHub Next | Hey, GitHub! 48:41 What do you think of using “Feature Flags” in the codebase to enable / disable features at runtime? 51:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: History for Granite Wes: GreatScott!, bigclivedotcom Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Discord Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what can be done with the OpenAI API, how to get started with it, pricing, tuning your model, and gotchas for getting started with the OpenAI API.

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Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:17 Sponsor: Sentry 02:39 What is the OpenAI API? 05:11 Getting started with the API 07:41 How run OpenAI OpenAI API 14:16 GPT4 update 17:58 Tune your models 19:46 Generating questions with ChatGPT 24:30 Speech to text Otter.ai - Voice Meeting Notes & Real-time Transcription Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. 26:12 Related API 27:33 LangChain 32:12 Save your replies Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Travis Neilson about his work at Google, YouTube music, and where AI is at now, and where it’s headed in the future.

Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 00:55 Guest introduction Travis Neilson (@travisneilson) Travis Neilson dot com Travis Neilson on Skills Gap, Design, Focus and Working at Google — Syntax Podcast 142 Awwards Conference talk https://www.youtube.com/LittleMusicBoxes 06:29 Convos about AI 07:49 How do we keep humanity with AI? 15:42 Is this the printing press or is this putting everyone out of a job? 19:21 What is Google using AI for these days? 25:59 How do we keep human interface via AI? 31:18 What is the evolution of AI chat windows? 34:05 How do you nourish your AI with data? 39:59 Halluncinations in AI 47:46 What models are exciting to you? 52:01 We’re building the window for the next generation 54:55 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× The Age of Spiritual Machines The Singularity is Near The Shape of Design Shameless Plugs Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning web dev at an older age, making your apps look better, building a video streaming site, mono repo vs regular, and more!

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Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:31 Sponsor: Sentry 01:43 DST update Tales of Taboo 03:45 Is it too late to learn web dev at an older age? 10:20 How do people produce work so quickly? 13:47 How can I make my web apps look better visually? Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals Tailwind UI - Official Tailwind CSS Components & Templates CSS · Bootstrap 18:41 Not losing the niceties with not having to do a full page load 22:23 Should I use a script to generate an index JS/TS file? 24:55 If you were going to make a video streaming website, what technologies would you use? The API to Video | Mux Vimeo – Video Experience Platform Live Streaming on AWS | AWS Solutions Video on Demand | AWS Solutions Cloudflare Stream | Video streaming made easy and affordable at scale 29:11 What should I do if my boss wants me to move up the business ladder? 31:58 I’m confused about hydration in frameworks like SvelteKit. 37:07 What’re the advantages of a mono repo over a regular one? 39:50 Is it better to stay put at a place even if you’re unhappy right now? 43:13 How should I ingest tv scripts into a database? 46:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Stronger By Science Podcast Wes: Merten and Storck Carbon Steel Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely.

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Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:09 GitHub tarball web streams 05:09 Sponsor: Sentry 05:48 Why would I need security locally? Caddy Server 11:23 Cookie issues 13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context MDN Features restricted to secure contexts 14:58 What is tunneling? 19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels Cloudflared Cloudflare Tunnel 20:50 nGrok ngrok 23:22 Local tunnel Local Tunnel 24:55 Tunnel to Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL 26:02 Cloudflare subdomain Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST.

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Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Sponsor: Sentry 02:05 Who is Dax Raad? Dax on Twitter thdxr.com Tomorrow.fm Podcast SST.dev 04:22 Why doesn’t AWS have a simple way to build on top of it? 07:46 What is Open Next? Vercel Next.js Open-Next.js 10:25 How many people are involved in building Open Next? 11:14 Mapping Next.js to Amazon products 14:25 What is the edge? 18:56 Pricing in serverless 23:33 What about image assets? 25:02 Is the CDK a layer on top of something Amazon is doing? Amazon CDK 27:23 What is terraform? Terraform 28:50 What is SST and why SST? 30:54 Do I build with SST or on top of SST? 32:06 How do you do local development with SST? 37:01 What about databases with SST? 40:12 What about build pipelines? 42:28 What is Seed? Seed 43:52 Any advice for someone learning AWS? SST on YouTube 46:05 Supper Club questions Neovim Toyko Night theme Nerd Fonts Astro TypeScript Alacritty i3 Cloudflare Inside the Meteoric Rise—and More Epic Flop—of HQ Trivia 52:45 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Planetscale Shameless Plugs Rebase.tv @RebaseTV on Twitter Tomorrow.fm episode on Rebase.tv Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott are in the same room together brainstorming new ideas for the Syntax.fm website: search, transcripts, video, tags, audio player, podcast hosting, and more!

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Show Notes 01:08 Sponsor: Sentry 01:43 Brainstorming for Syntax’s new website 02:27 Are there good podcast websites out there? 03:26 Homepage design 07:33 How would you handle login? 09:40 Search on the site SvelteKit docs Flexsearch 13:59 Transcripts Open AI Whisper Whisper AI for podcasters 18:25 The player 21:11 Tagging 23:45 Video Linus Tech Tips - WAN Show 27:45 Show notes 29:57 Surfacing good content on the podcast 35:30 Interactions 36:25 Deploy to Podcast Host Libsyn Editor Chris on Mastodon 38:43 Code base Syntax website on GitHub 45:21 Listener feedback 46:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Screen door dog Wes: Apple Watch bands Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain the what, why, and how of web streaming, and some of the jargon you might encounter with web streams.

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Show Notes 00:26:11 Welcome 00:59:07 Sponsor: Sentry 01:39:17 What are Web Streams? 03:15:11 Why are web streams picking up steam lately? 04:41:21 How are web streams streaming? 09:28:11 Searching a database can use streaming 13:07:11 Web stream jargon 18:06:11 FileReader is a Stream 19:31:05 Other Types of Streams Cloudlfare HTML Rewriter 21:50:05 ReadableStream and Writable Stream 27:23:00 Creating a Writable Stream 28:39:11 TextDecoderStream Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Sartorius about his life as a digital nomad - including recently climbing Kilimanjaro, his tips for travel deals, crazy experiences while travelling, and what he brings on the road with him.

Show Notes 01:02 Guest introduction EricSartorius.com Eric on GitHub PureFunc Train Surfing Get Stream 02:51 Where have you travelled? 04:27 What are the challenges of being a digital nomad? 09:08 How do you research before travel? 13:04 How do you approach applying for a job? 21:10 Do you travel with other digital nomads? R16 video 22:43 What are the best locations you’ve been? 24:21 What about health and insurance? Tiny Toones TSA post raw meat on carousel 28:21 What motivated you to want to climb Kilimanjaro? 41:14 What gear do you travel with for web dev? Osprey Talon 33 Packing cubes Outlier Google Fi Google Flights explore 51:12 Using credit card points for flights 54:45 How do you handle customs? 00:13 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Comfort 2.0 Czech sock shoes Shameless Plugs PureFunc @TheEpicLife on Instagram Pamoja Safaris Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through all the reasons your website might be slow, and how you can troubleshoot a slow website such as issues on the server, large assets, caching, CSS, JavaScript, latency, and more.

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Show Notes 00:11 Welcome Glove 80 keyboard Raycast 03:06 Sponsor: Sentry 05:15 What makes a website slow? Uses.tech 06:29 Server Generation Times 13:33 Large payloads Redis Gzip Brotli compression Cloudflare Cloudinary 18:13 Assets being too large 23:01 Caching assets 28:25 CDN 30:35 Caching 101 37:04 Render blocking requests 40:01 CSS 42:25 JavaScript 44:51 Latency 49:17 Flash of dark mode or unsigned out 55:00 Data uris Content-visibility vite-plugin-singlefile Pool in your URL 58:11 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 3Blue1Brown Wes: Suavecito Firme Clay Pomade Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about two new services that allow you to run Node in the browser, WebContainers + NodeBox. Why Node in the browser? How does it work? And what are the differences and limitations of the services?

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Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:14 Sponsor: Sentry 02:45 Webcontainers and NodeBox Introducing WebContainers Code Sandbox CodePen Replit GitHub Codespaces 06:42 Why Node.js in the browser? 11:08 How does it work? 13:10 Clientside APIs 14:27 Using iFrame to proxy messages 17:39 Are these open source? 19:22 Differences between the two services 21:10 Wes to Figma, Scott to Penpot Figma Penpot 24:51 Limitations Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Sewell about Builder.io, Qwik, Partytown, and the tricks and tips he’s learned in building apps for the modern web.

Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:14 Guest introduction Steve on Twitter Steve on GitHub Builder.io Builder.io/demo 04:07 Builder works with any tech stack? 06:29 Where is the structure of the site coming from? 07:28 What is Builder.io? 11:34 What’s the workflow for updating content? 13:03 What is Builder built in? Mobx 14:36 Moving from Figma to HTML 18:41 Is an app like this divs all the way down? 24:55 Stories of browser gremlins building? 26:29 Advice for anyone building drag and drop Fullstory 29:04 Does FPS play a part in development? 33:31 Do you use SVG? 36:15 Where does Qwik and Partytown fit into all of it? Qwik Partytown 46:45 How does accessibility play into Builder? 49:44 Supper club questions 54:30 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Dead Space Remake Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the current landscape of AI, how AI is trained, is AI going to take your job, who’s going to train AI, and adding AI to your applications.

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Show Notes 00:11:10 Welcome 01:58:01 Sponsor: Sentry 03:16:05 What this episode is not going to be 07:36:11 The current landscape Chat GPT GitHub Copilot Warp Completions Midjourney Bing AI From Bing to Sydney Why a Chat with Bing Left Me Deeply Unsettled Tensorflow Stable Diffusion Amazing AI Dall E 15:26:11 Timeline of growth of AI AI Timeline 16:24:11 What is a model for AI? 24:20:11 How do you use AI? 33:14:00 Code brushes 35:57:18 Midjourney Yandex 40:13:18 Is it going to take your job? Canva Cal 50:22:19 Cost prohibitive 52:26:20 Who’s going to train the robots? 57:29:12 Adding AI to your apps 58:50:11 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Motion sensor Wes: Apple Watch Ultra Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to enforce your rules.

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Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 00:46 Sponsor: Sentry 01:51 Uses performance issues Uses.tech 04:23 Understand Sloppy Code 10:17 Syntax website timestamp issue 12:56 Establish rules to fix sloppy code 16:35 Adding a feature, do you refactor an unrelated function? 23:07 How do you enforce rules? GitHub Actions Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more!

Show Notes 00:40 Welcome 01:08 Guest introduction FredKSchott.com @Fredkschott on Twitter Fred on GitHub 02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it? 04:57 What can you build with Astro? 06:11 What’s an island in content? 09:43 How do routes work with Astro? 12:30 How is Markdown handled in Astro? mdxjs 14:32 How does Astro work on the edge? 18:15 How does Astro v2 handle data fetching? 23:25 Integrations with Astro 26:38 Astro AI bot? AI Langchain 30:40 Error overlay design 36:10 What are some of the most important upgrades in v2? 37:18 Hybrid rendering 40:27 Astro’s image component Squoosh 44:39 What happened to snowpack? Pikapkg? 46:48 What is the financial model for Astro? 50:28 Supper Club questions Obsidian ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Chat Langchain Shameless Plugs Astro Astro Discord Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why they’re digging Warp as their terminal app of choice, what the terminal is, and some of their wishlist items for Warp.

Show Notes 00:09 Welcome 02:11 Disclaimers 04:17 What is the terminal? 06:54 What we’ve used for terminal Get Warp Hyper Terminal iTerm Alacritty 11:14 Terminal terminology CommandLinePowerUser.com WSL OhMyPosh OhMyZsh Starship Ion 17:35 The basic features of Warp 20:45 Autocomplete issues Fig 25:06 Sticky header 26:13 Blocks 29:17 The prompt 30:38 Sharing blocks and live sessions 32:29 AI Command Search AI Command search 35:51 Remote SSH 37:53 Window management Launch configurations 38:42 Workflows 40:19 The command palette 42:36 How does Warp make money? 43:54 Warp requires an account 46:09 Annoyances and wishlists 58:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 50 Pokemon Cards for $5 Wes: iPad Sorter Station Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps and packages to help with logging.

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Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:37 Sponsor: Sentry 02:16 What is logging? Why log? 04:59 Logging isn’t just for debugging 08:22 What do we log? 13:34 What not to log 14:58 Development, staging, and production 17:36 Logging bots 19:33 Where to put logs 20:59 How to log Log Tail Paper Trail Sematext Logs DataDog Winston Pino Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Carniato about Solid.JS, SolidStart, how web components work with Solid, why he chose JSX, and what the future of Solid is.

Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:38 Who is Ryan Carniato? @RyanCarniato on Twitter Ryan on Dev.to Solid.JS 02:37 Why did you build Solid? Knockout.JS Marko JS 09:15 What is Solid? 12:55 What does it mean to compile to vanilla JavaScript? SolidStart Tanstack Query 19:39 What are observables and signals? 27:17 How are web components used inside of Solid? 29:38 Why aren’t we using web components more? 32:37 Why would someone pick SolidStart vs Solid? 39:07 Why did you choose JSX? 44:45 How did you build live code examples into documentation? SolidJS Docs Solid-Movies.app 47:19 What is Solid.JS built on? 53:36 What is the future of Solid? 00:39 Supper club questions 02:57 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Alice in Borderland Shameless Plugs Ryan on Twitch Ryan on YouTube Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript for marketers, managing application secrets, and more!

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:09 Sponsor: Sentry 02:18 Electrical house update Klien Wirestrippers 07:45 Custom Syntax podcast browser Custom Syntax browser 09:29 When using browser native web components (i.e. extends HTMLElement), should the whole application be wrapped in a component tree similar to how React apps do it? Deno Using Web Components with Next or any SSR Framework 16:12 Should I avoid JS/TS class mixins? 21:07 Is it acceptable to have any string value as a value for a CSS custom property? 26:48 Should agencies consider building marketing sites with JS frameworks or is Wordpress still the best option here? 33:56 What are the main things to think about when laying the foundations for an app or project that will hopefully grow into something big? 41:24 Will Javascript skills give me an edge over other local digital marketers? WordPress Ghost 46:00 What tool, if any, do you use for publishing packages? 50:19 Do you have any suggestions on how I can find time to code more? Bit 54:17 how do you both manage your application secrets (API keys, database credentials etc) when deploying to Digital Ocean or Linode? 58:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Physical 100 Wes: Leviton D23LP-2RW Decora Smart Wi-Fi Mini Plug-In Dimmer Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what you can do to better organize your config files.

Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 02:20 Electric car ski tripping 05:01 Why config files? 07:47 Custom Vite config files Wes’ Vite config define: { __VERSION__: JSON.stringify(process.env.npm_package_version), }, 11:16 Node has failed us 13:30 Cosmic config Cosmiconfig 16:46 File nesting 21:01 Standardize on a format Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Miško Hevery about why developers should check out Qwik, the benefits of lazy loading, sharing state between components, and other Builder.io projects like Partytown and Mitosis.

Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:19 Guest intro Miško Hevery @MHevery 01:58 What is Resumability? 05:06 What is Qwik? Qwik Qwik City 07:03 Why would you want to make a component resumable? 12:08 Qwik code can be lazy loaded 15:28 How is server side rendering handled? 18:12 How does Vite help? 22:40 A bit more about hydration 31:03 How does the server collection information? 32:11 How do you share state between components? 34:45 How is data fetching handled? 37:47 Why are you using JSX? 41:53 Dealing with components in other frameworks Mitosis 49:21 What is Partytown? Partytown 54:30 Supper Club questions ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Thinking Fast and Slow Shameless Plugs Builder.io Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their respective processes for converting JavaScript to TypeScript in their projects, why you might want to, and tooling for moving to TypeScript.

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:36 Sponsor: Sentry 02:23 Electrical updates 08:16 Moving to TypeScript 09:34 What are you doing with GraphQL? GraphQL Codegen 11:35 Why move to TypeScript? 12:00 Refactoring is easier 14:58 Better DX 18:42 Adding a tsconfig.json file 22:43 Figure out your tooling 23:50 Type Checker 25:13 MongoDB to TypScript Generator 26:44 Eslint-Typescript 28:03 Deprank Deprank 29:18 Refactor and rename to .ts 32:40 Typing your code 43:04 Utilities and unions 46:11 Where do you put your types? 49:29 Typing Dependencies Definitely Typed Raycast Search npm 54:26 Global types 01:08 Now what? 03:58 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Elegrp USB C Walloutlet Wes: Barrina Shop Lights Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through quick tips to improve performance of your website, and the tools available to help diagnose and fix perf issues.

Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:50 Polish And Perf explained 02:05 What kinds of tools are available to improve performance Lighthouse in Chrome PageSpeed 09:32 Identify route caching and http caching 14:25 Partytown Partytown 15:19 Unnecessary network calls Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning Rust, and ideas of good projects to begin learning Rust with.

Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:26 Guest introduction Rust in Action Tim on Twitter Tim on YouTube 03:51 What was it like to write a book on Rust? 07:52 What drew you to Rust? 13:01 The approachability of Rust 21:41 What’s a good introductory project with Rust? 25:15 Why would someone learn Rust? It’s time to try WASM 40:23 What is a crate and cargo in Rust? 44:17 Running Rust in various places 50:53 Should the average web developer try Rust? 52:13 Supper club questions 54:17 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× kokako Shameless Plugs Tim McNamara - How to learn Rust Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM.

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:51 Sponsor: Sentry 02:32 Our experiences with ESM 06:54 Why ESM? 11:42 Top Level Await 16:16 Assert Import type eventually Scott’s Vite chunk import map 21:00 Converting code to ESM 27:22 .JS on end of files 32:12 Imports and exports 37:52 TypeScript 40:24 Bundling / Transpiling Vite Node 43:42 Dependencies Sindre thread 45:16 Publishing 53:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Egg dispenser Wes: Pure Cinema Podcast Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, overflown, and more.

Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:09 Snow skate update 03:01 Mixins 05:06 Range selector 09:36 :first-of-column :last-of:column / row Ability to target items in nth-row of autofilled, implicit grid 11:43 Fit Text 13:34 Overflow-x, overflow-y control 15:36 Full support for CSS with Inline Styles 16:24 nth-of-found() 18:18 Robust Color functions 22:19 resize: both but no overflow or scroll 23:39 Animate height auto 23:57 Full attr() support 25:07 CSS References CSS References 26:59 overflown + :stuck 28:56 Multi-line selectors 30:35 Container Queries - select the container itself 32:04 :is-scrolled - select a container when it’s scrolled Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more.

Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Buffalo and Canada History of Target in Canada 06:23 Who is Caleb Porzio? @CalebPorzio on Twitter 09:26 What is Livewire? Livewire Alpine.js HotWired 12:58 Are these MVC frameworks? 18:11 What is the process behind the scenes? 20:36 How does Hotwire handle rendering? 25:38 What is Alpine.js? 33:19 Why are PHP devs making interesting things? Laravel Tailwind 40:32 What is a nextTick in JavaScript? Microtask Guide 46:20 TypeScript thoughts 48:05 Server side rendering? Morph 49:25 Supper Club questions Ergodox Keyboards Glove 80 Keyboards Natty Theme MonoLisa 59:40 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ugmonk Analog Shameless Plugs Make VS Code Awesome Alpine.js Livewire Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022.

Show Notes

State of JS 2022

00:26 Welcome

01:24 Thoughts on the survey in general

04:24 Country of origin

05:53 Salaries

08:14 Higher education

08:58 JavaScript features

15:41 Browser APIs

21:15 Library Usage

26:11 Interest in frontend frameworks

28:40 Framework usage

31:41 Rendering frameworks

34:57 Build tools usage over time

39:37 Monorepo tools

Moon

46:41 Backend frameworks

Civet

47:42 JavaScript run times

51:01 TypeScript JavaScript balance

52:17 JavaScript flavors

57:03 Resources

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries.

Show Notes 00:28 Welcome 01:46 What are Container Queries? Tweet about Container Queries 03:28 Use cases for Container Queries Home Assistant Can I Use? 06:11 The syntax of container queries 13:42 New units 22:27 Old iOS versions may cause issues Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions.

Show Notes

00:36 Welcome

01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity?

04:04 What kinds of services use Sanity?

06:18 What is a content lake?

07:26 Enabling code access to Sanity Studio

13:12 Implenting Sanity into a React app

14:49 What is GROQ?

21:04 Is GraphQL still the best way to query data?

25:32 Workflows in Sanity

27:48 What is portable text?

35:19 How does Sanity work with TypeScript?

38:51 Ecommerce options with Sanity

41:29 Supper club questions

50:33 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Syntax 533 - Zod Schema

Elden Ring

Risk of Rain

Sharp

Syntax 526 - Supper Club with on TRPC

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs software engineer, taking payments, and more.

Show Notes 00:11:11 Welcome 01:29:11 When should you use article and section in HTML? 08:03:08 Does your business suffer from the economic recession? 15:47:18 How do you manage your money or budget? PlainTextAccounting YNAB Copilot 20:51:11 What should I consider using? There’s a lot of options. CommonJS, AMD, UMD, es modules? 26:30:09 What’s the difference between a software developer and software engineer? 30:36:11 How do you handle payment for your course platforms? Braintree Gumroad Paddle Stripe 38:33:23 Why is this false? “I’m a string” instanceof String 40:38:22 Do you all use Mac spaces for organizing windows? Arc 45:55:21 Do you have any tips that would help my front end team avoid rendering a DOM with invalid element nesting? 48:48:14 Would you do an episode commenting on the CSS Nesting survey released this week? Help Choose CSS Nesting Syntax 53:57:01 How do you guys go about prioritizing your work? Height.app Things 58:50:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Bundle of Eucalyptus Wes: Recycling bin brackets Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more.

Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 03:19 Buying vs building topic 07:09 Strategy 09:50 Escapability 14:56 Services You Could Use Sentry Postmark 16:34 Efficiency of using a service 18:08 Cron jobs 20:43 Checkout Recurly Lemon Squeezy Stripe Braintree 24:29 Hosting 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images Cloudinary Vercel OG Puppeteer 29:25 Search Algolia Elastic MongoDB 33:32 Auth PasswordJS 36:55 Images 39:46 Video Hosting Vimeo Mux Amazon Kinesis Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, data visualization, and coding for a sustainable focused company.

Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:10 Guest introduction Rolling With Kat 03:05 Bag milk? 04:34 What is Tangible Materials? Tangible Materials 07:27 How did you end up at Tangible? Full Stack Academy 10:05 Are bootcamps worth it? 14:46 How important were in person classes to you? All We Can Save Braiding Sweetgrass 20:46 What do you enjoy about data visualization? D3 Data visualization society Three.js Observable Color Wheel 27:21 Working at WeWork WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn • Official Trailer 34:14 What is your tech stack at Tangible? 38:26 What backend would Wes use for a project? Svelte Kit Supabase Super Bass 42:10 Is there environmental web hosting? 43:47 Supper Club Questions Uplift Desks 50:22 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Climavores Shameless Plugs Drinking from the Garden Hose Hiring at Tangible Materials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness.

Show Notes 00:17 Welcome 02:38 What’s a cantina? 06:33 Scott’s coding goals Animated grid layouts Tauri 14:39 Wes’ code goals Uses Stripe Stripe Elements Shoelace 23:17 Tooling Vite Plugin List Directory Contents 26:39 Scott’s courses and platform LevelUp.video 29:36 Wes’ courses Wes Bos Tutorials 31:11 Scott’s fitness goals 35:55 Wes’ fitness goals 39:44 Apple Watch for fitness 41:54 Syntax podcast goals 50:13 Scott’s social media goals Scott on TikTok LevelUp Newsletter 52:35 Wes’ social media goals Wes on TikTok 58:02 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Menu Wes: JB Weld Clearweld, big version Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Satisfies and as const.

Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Xmas recap Peloton 04:09 Satisfies and as const 06:16 What is const? 10:30 Helping with currency 12:44 Bos monster server update 14:13 Satisfies export const currencies = { USD: 'US Dollars', CAD: 'Canadian Dollar', EUR: 'Euro', } as const; export type Currency = typeof currencies; export type CurrencyCode = keyof Currency; Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’s like moving from management to coding and back, the book writing process, and her Fortnite VS Code theme.

Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:59 Who is Sarah Drasner? @Sarah_Edo on Twitter @Sarah_Edo on Mastodon @Sdras on CodePen @SDras on GitHub SarahDrasnerDesign.com Google Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Amazon: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Netlify 05:25 How did you figure out what to do in management? 07:20 How do you get out of engineer’s way? The Engineer Manager pendulum 09:39 Do you spend time on making the person happy in the job? 15:51 Should managers code? 19:16 Was it difficult to step out of coding? 21:07 Why do people leave jobs? 24:04 Dealing with conflict and reorgs 28:36 What makes a good retro? 31:25 What was your process for writing a book? SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation Scrivener Egghead Mayfly Design Sarah Drasner’s articles on CSS Tricks Sarah Drasner’s articles on Smashing Magazine 43:44 Supper Club questions Sarah Drasner’s VS Code snippets and themes Creating a VS Code theme Wes Bos Cobalt 2 VS Code theme Partytown beta 53:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Paper Koi Lantern: a DIY Kit Shameless Plugs Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their predictions in web development for 2023.

Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:25 SSR JS sites more the norm 03:32 React doing forms 05:39 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 08:11 Deno gets hotter 12:51 JS Runtimes Mature HTMX 15:00 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust 19:20 New JS APIs 23:37 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular. “Worker Ready” script STC 27:05 A new JS framework SolidJS Qwik 29:44 Page Transitions API 32:40 Scott was right / Scotts gonna be right 34:06 Rust becomes more Popular 36:00 React Beta Docs launch after 5 year dev cycle 37:45 CSS Container Queries in Production 41:07 Svelte and Sveltekit Glow Up 43:38 CSS Subgrid 49:19 WASM 51:51 AI Open AI 53:16 Houdini 54:30 People souring on React, Eslint 57:47 Machine learning 01:08 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Cron Wes: Wyze Headphones Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp SvelteKit Tutorial Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some TypeScript Fundamentals around type narrowing, type guards, and type predicates.

Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:40 Rocking predicates 02:54 What is a type in TypeScript? 04:11 Type Narrowing 08:18 Type Guard 16:19 Type Predicates Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kilian Valkhof about his work on Polypane, a browser for developers. How is Polypane built? Why does he have a focus on accessibility in Polypane?

Show Notes 00:39 Welcome 01:48 Who is Kilian Valkhof? kilianvalkhof.com @kilianvalkhof on Twitter 04:50 What is Polypane? Polypane @Polypane on Twitter FromScratch 09:31 How is Polypane built? 14:18 What about the Dev tools tab? 20:15 Outline tab 23:23 Color picker 27:33 Canvas rules and guides 32:16 Accessibility background and tools 40:28 How do you parse the CSS? 42:51 What else do you want people to know about Polypane? 44:42 Supper Club questions 53:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Shameless Plugs Fix Contrast Superposition Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott revisit their 2022 predictions and see which ones they got right, and which they got wrong.

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Show Notes 00:09 Welcome Syntax 420: 2022 Predictions 01:44 Svelte popularity Svelte Svelte Kit 04:09 Next.js data layer 05:06 Web components UI Open UI 06:19 Rust popularity Rust 10:07 Serverless and Cloud functions 10:42 Tailwind popularity 16:20 Sponsor: Sentry 17:59 Next gen dev tools 19:46 CSS Container queries 21:45 GraphQL 26:26 Deno 29:44 TypeScript 34:28 Sponsor: Sanity 35:07 Server comeback 36:21 Checkouts and payment processers Lemon Squeezy 43:05 Sponsor: Auth0 44:18 Temporal API 46:44 Remote dev thin client popularity 49:49 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: JADENS Label Maker Machine with Tape Wes: Chipolo One Spot Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Svelte Kit Tutorial Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri.

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Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 01:18 Sponsor: Sentry 02:47 Sponsor: Prismic 04:01 Our experience with building desktop apps Level Up Tutorials: Level 1 Electron Hair.WesBos.com 10:04 Frameworks for building apps 10:56 Tauri vs Electron Tauri Electron 23:38 Tooling vite-plugin-electron Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kenneth Lyerly about his career path into coding, and how he manages to hold two jobs.

Show Notes 00:38 Welcome Ken.dev Ken on Github 01:59 How do you have two jobs? 09:46 When did you start a second job? 16:02 Any tips for someone wanting to switch into coding? 24:03 Do you have advice for people trying to market themselves? 31:38 What is working these days for marketing efforts? 34:47 Where can devs learn about marketing? 35:50 Barbershop culture 39:47 Supper club questions Snazzy Labs custom Touch ID button Tech Meme Ride Home podcast 44:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Traeger Grills Shameless Plugs Suavecito ResortPass Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about how to give feedback on the podcast, deciding on a business model for courses, what to do about Twitter, and more.

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:51 Podcast feedback 04:46 Can you talk about how you made the decision to re-write LevelUp? Strangler Fig 13:54 How did you get a score for your website? Google Pagespeed 19:30 Where will we move to when Twitter implodes? Twitter Blue 26:29 Sponsor: Linode 27:06 How did you arrive at your business model? 33:15 Advice for getting into freelancing web dev? 38:49 Sponsor: Sentry 40:07 How to feel more “senior” as a developer 43:30 How do you manage notifications between various apps? Hazel 50:46 Label makers Nimbot label makers 54:14 Sponsor: Freshbooks 54:45 How are people testing node apps? JestJS Vitest Mocha ChaiJS 56:38 What are your thoughts on the TanStack Router? Tanstack Astro SvelteKit Nozzle 01:09 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Sensibo Air Wes: We Crashed Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for database when you’re working with serverless.

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jonny Burger about why and how he built Remotion, his app that lets you create MP4 videos using React.

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Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:24 Who is Jonny Burger? Jonny.io Jonny on GitHub Jonny on Twitter 03:51 Why did you create Remotion? Remotion.dev 07:36 What types of videos are people making? 10:53 What is the tech stack? Puppeteer Lottie 18:31 What is Idempotence? 19:50 What is lottie? 22:56 Motion blur trail Motion blur trail demo 25:17 Sponsor: Gatsby 26:12 Chrome rendering 29:58 When would you choose JPG or PNG? 31:43 Are you using ffmpeg in the browser? ffmpeg 36:00 Sponsor: Tuple 37:43 What player do you use for playback? 39:54 How did you take this idea to a product? 44:05 Supper Club questions LG C9 TV iTerm 50:12 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Yoga with Adriene Cosmic Kids Yoga Shameless Plugs Toopo.art Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look at the the Web Almanac’s report on the role of JavaScript on the web in 2022.

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Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:17 College football update 04:07 Web almanac for 2022 JavaScript in the 2022 Web Almanac 06:25 Unused JavaScript 07:47 JavaScript requests per page 09:38 Bundlers 14:01 Pages using Babel 16:01 How JavaScript is requested 19:22 Sponsor: Sentry 20:56 Loading render blocking tags 22:48 Dynamic import, web workers, source maps 24:33 Libraries and frameworks Owl Carousel Lazy Sizes 29:30 Websites using web components 31:35 Websites with JavaScript security issues 32:43 Sponsor: Auth0 33:58 Jamstack 37:09 JavaScript used by Jamstack sites 38:03 Jamstack hosting 39:46 Popular Static site generators 44:49 Progressive web apps and service workers 50:29 jQuery inside WordPress themes WeCrashed 51:13 Project Fugu Project Fugu 52:51 Web push notifications 55:49 CMSs 00:45 Sponsor: Freshbooks 01:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: White Lotus Wes: Ubiquiti Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through the various rendering methods in use today and the pros / cons of each.

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Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:31 What is rendering? 02:41 Sponsor: Sentry 03:58 Sponsor: Sanity 04:55 Rendering methods 05:48 Single page application (SPA) 07:36 Multi-page Application 09:14 Static Site Generation (SSG) 11:10 Service Side Rendered (SSR) 13:08 Partial hydration 14:03 Progressive hydration 15:38 Island architecture 16:25 Progressive enhancement 18:18 Incremental Static Generation 19:12 Streaming SSR 19:53 Resumability 21:51 Edge rendering 23:11 Missing from the list Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Vu Le about his path to working at Disney. How did he learn to code? How do you get a job at Disney? What’s the tech stack inside a Disney team?

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Show Notes 01:40 Who is Vu Le? 03:33 How did you learn to code? 04:57 How do you get a job at Disney? 09:01 Internal CMS development at Disney 10:19 What types of languages do you use internally? 15:22 Do you have a design system? 19:52 How do you handle versions and updates? 22:42 Sponsor: Tuple 23:37 Do you get involved in testing? Vitest 25:06 What are you using for GraphQL? GraphQL 25:34 How are you handling CSS? Theme UI 31:43 Does Disney do remote work? 34:38 Perks of working at Disney 38:16 Supper Club questions GMMK Pro Keyboard Santa Cruz bicycles JetBrains Mono 45:13 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Garden hose connectors Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their preferred coding styles and preferences they use, and why.

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Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:35 Function definition 06:43 File path aliases 09:36 Implicit vs Explicit Return 13:49 Array.reduce() VS literally anything else 17:37 Loop vs array method 22:55 Sponsor: Linode 23:37 Updating vs creating a new var 30:36 Iterable to Array 34:46 Sponsor: LogRocket 36:16 Destructuring vs Object.property 39:22 Destructuring Arrays vs Reference by index 41:40 Number(string) vs +string 43:35 Incrementing 45:06 Multiple ifs 47:48 Multiple ifs vs switch vs Ternary 51:05 Promises / Error Catching 53:50 if(falsy) block VS return false; 55:51 Sponsor: Freshbooks 56:26 Spaces vs tabs 58:39 Trailing commas 00:40 Semicolons 02:49 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Video Archives Podcast Wes: Ubiquiti Wifi Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about new features coming to GitHub including Hey, GitHub!, GitHub Blocks, GitHub Copilot CLI, and more!

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Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:49 Responsive web design update 03:12 Let’s go 05:32 Sponsor: Linode 06:01 Sponsor: LogRocket 07:23 GitHub Next GitHub Next 08:17 GitHub Copilot for the CLI 11:52 Synthesizing results Syntax 540 - Responsive Design Techniques 13:31 Hey GitHub Syntax 481 - Supper Club Voice Coding with Pokey Rule 16:55 GitHub Blocks 18:58 GitHub Code search 21:36 GitHub Collaborative workspaces 23:43 GitHub Copilot for your own codebase 25:10 GitHub Copilot Radar 29:15 GitHub AI Pull Requests Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jared Sumner about why and how he created Bun, what Zig is, and the future of Bun.

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Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:44 Who is Jared Sumner? Jarred Sumner on Twitter Bun Bun Discord Bun on GitHub 02:31 Why did you make Bun? 09:43 Using web API vs Node modules? 13:25 Do we still use npm? 15:42 Support for HTML Rewriter 16:46 Where do you see Bun being used? 19:25 Do you think someone will write a type checker? 21:18 Sponsor: Tuple 22:07 What is Zig? 24:57 Did you have a history of learning languages? 28:16 Have you ever thought of putting Bun on hardware? 29:59 Is there a package.json file in Bun projects? 31:34 What can’t Node just get faster? 32:16 What is the future of Bun? 36:27 Thoughts on types in JavaScript? 41:16 Why did you build an SQLite client into Bun? 42:54 Supper Club questions Starship Warp 48:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Bun meme Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about strategies to find good Twitter follows, should we use TypeScript for a company blog, what’s Playwright, and more!

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Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:53 TikTok update 02:46 What strategies do you use to find the good stuff? Tweetdeck 11:17 What is the clear distinction b/w how the CRUD Ops & the Real time chat protocols (XMPP, Websockets, etc) differ? 15:56 Should we use TypeScript for a new blog? 20:45 Sponsor: Sanity 21:45 Is there any reason to still use string concatenation over template literals? 26:13 What should React devs use to get initial scaffolding in place? Create React App Vite Turbo Pack 29:38 What’s the deal with Playwright? Playwright 34:28 Sponsor: LogRocket 35:19 What separates a “scripting” language from a “programming” language? 39:37:14 Sponsor: Prismic 40:23:02 Do you have any tips on how to change a defeated programmer mindset? Partydown 47:34:07 How has your use of and work in the browser changed with Arc? Arc Browser Syntax 514 - Supper Club × Arc Browser with Hursh Agrawal 49:18:15 Why would I attach an event listener with the useCapture argument as true? 51:33:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Screwless plates / 4 pack of screwless plates Wes: Shoe Boxes for Cords Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp TikTok Wes: Wes Bos TikTok Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some of the limitations of using serverless in your project.

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Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:08 Sponsor: Sentry 01:59 Sponsor: MagicBell 03:11 Topic introduction 04:44 Function limit Puppeteer 08:51 Node support 10:00 Cron jobs 11:12 Local development Miniflare 11:45 Database access SQLite 12:42 Sharing code 13:07 Environmental variables Netlify environmental variables 14:37 Timeouts 15:47 Sass is expensive 17:26 Infastructure as code 19:02 Search Algolia Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Scott and Wes! Talking about BBQ, electric cars, workout equipment, home renos - but they do sneak in a bit of coding talk!

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Show Notes 00:37:11 Welcome 03:18:10 Saskatchewan and Saskatoon Berries Saskatoon Berry Barn 05:02:14 TV shows we’re watching Amazing Race Canada America’s Dance Crew Lakefront Luxury 12:49:12 New house vibe 18:29:06 Sponsor: Kontent 19:13:20 Sauna thoughts 22:58:24 Home gym thoughts Woodupp Tonal 40:22:16 Sponsor: Tuple 41:17:11 3D printer 44:11:09 How many things can you take on? 48:23:11 BBQ talk Amazing Ribs 55:26:11 Electric car update Ioniq 5 57:45:07 Supper Club questions Level Up Tutorials VS Code Theme Quokka VS Code Extension Quokkajs Console-Ninja Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some modern responsive design techniques that you may not have heard of, or haven’t had a chance to use yet.

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Show Notes 00:47 Clean Talk 03:55 The menu of responsive design Syntax 154 with Sara Soueidan 06:52 Responsive design basics 11:54 What should you build for first in 2022? 16:15 Shrink and grow until it looks bad 21:36 Menus in responsive 23:43 Sponsor: Linode 24:13 Grid systems 28:08 Grid and Flexbox CSS Grid Course Flexbox Course Can I Use 35:02 Sponsor: LogRocket 36:00 Container queries 45:56 FitText 49:12 How do you test these types of things? 51:15 Future techniques coming 53:28 Sponsor: Freshbooks 53:56 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Lutron Light switches Wes: Sunco Lighting BR30 Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the new proposal for React, what the basics of it are, why it’s being proposed, and some benefits and issues it brings up.

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Show Notes 00:13 Welcome 01:39 Sponsor: Sentry 02:41 Auth0 03:57 A bit more auth 05:24 New RFC RFC: First class support for promises and async/await 08:30 What are the basics of this proposal? 10:12 Scott gets a little Svelte-y 11:44 Why is this being proposed? 17:14 Infinite loop possibility 18:44 Why is Svelte API better in this use case? Tanstack Smooshgate Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Dahl about Deno. Why was Deno created? What is Deno written in? How is Deno so much faster? And what’s the future of Deno?

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Show Notes 00:36 Welcome Tinyclouds.org Ry on GitHub Deno Deno Discord 01:18 The introduction of Node 02:51 Why are you still betting on JavaScript for the web? 05:34 Why did you make Deno? 09:04 How does TypeScript fit into the landscape? 11:40 How is Deno so much faster? 13:28 Sponsor: Sanity 14:17 What is Deno written in? 15:56 Should developers be learning Rust? 18:27 Will libraries that work on npm eventually work in Deno? 21:52 Are we going to use Node API’s or web spec? 24:31 Sponsor: Sentry 25:31 What is tooling like for Deno? WinterCG Deno VS Code Extension 29:27 What is Deno deploy? Deno Deploy 34:01 Deno’s framework Fresh 38:56 Client side vs server side rendering 41:27 Sponsor: Gatsby 42:28 What’s the future of Deno? 43:39 Supper club questions 53:30 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, it’s part 2 of Wes and Scott’s journey through the CSS Trends Almanac for 2022 talking through the rest of the popular CSS properties on the web.

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Show Notes 00:06 Welcome Syntax 525 - 2022 CSS Trends and Usage Web Almanac Part 1 01:22 Smart home updates 04:05 Box sizing: border box 06:57 CSS Columns 09:20 Aspect Ratio Can I Use CSS Properties Rotate 09:53 Transitions and animations 13:36 Transition time 17:05 Steps as a timing function 19:01 Sponsor: Prismic 19:43 Blend modes 23:57 Responsive web design 26:31 Prefers Color Scheme 27:48 Popular breakpoints 30:57 Sponsor: LogRocket 32:06 Feature queries and @ supports 34:59 Logical and physical properties 37:59 css-in-js Sam Magura - Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS Brad Frost - Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS in JS 42:28 Sass 43:20 Print styles 45:38 Sponsor: Sanity 46:38 Longhand properities 48:21 Non-existant properties 52:06 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Front Bumper Drillless Plate Holder Wes: 1U Server Rack Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about creating short form content for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and tweets. What are some of the benefits and limitations of creating for vertical video, and what tools are they using to create videos.

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Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:39 Sponsor: Sentry 02:40 Sponsor: Freshbooks 04:05 Short form content intro WesBos.com/tips Wes on TikTok LevelUp Tutorials on TikTok Scott Stolinski on TikTok 07:16 The good and the bad of short form content 17:13 Repurposing content 18:36 Content that works 21:12 Tips for making short form content 24:19 Limitations of short form content 31:49 Tools for editing Screenflow Descript Detail.co Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott recorded a live open table episode with guests calling in to talk about Wasm, building Riverside.fm, home networking, getting a job at Microsoft, Svelte and Sveltekit, htmx, and more!

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Show Notes 00:30 Welcome 01:49 Safari aspect ratio bug 04:17 Thoughts on Vercel announcements? NextJS Conf 10:07 Gideon Riverside CTO Riverside.fm Careers 14:44 Do JS devs need to branch out? 16:52 Wasm Web Assembly (WASM) Rustlings 19:46 Sponsor: Auth0 21:03 Which company will Vercel aquire next? Guillermo Rauch Akamai Acquires Linode 27:12 Svelte Kit and Vercel 30:20 Why don’t you terminate your own ethernet cables? 30:58 How does Fly.io compare to Vercel? Fly.io 31:36 Did Wes learn Vue? 32:10 Brad jumping on the Remix train Remix 34:18 Layout shift caused by images in Markdown 38:30 Maintaining home networking Ubiquiti 44:44 Taking a course lead to a job with Microsoft Soumya’s YouTube - Geekysrm / website / Twitter 47:38 Sponsor: Appwrite 48:39 Are you still using your Synology NAS? Synology 53:53 Is Svelte ready for smaller team projects? Svelte Kit Wyze 56:03 HTMX htmx Alpine.js 01:49 Docker Wasm preview Introducing the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview WebAssembly System Interface Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about meeting IRL, bookmarks, SSG vs SSR, domain privacy, deploying monorepos, and more.

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Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 01:20 Weather updates 02:21 How often have you gotten together in real life? Jamstack Conf Reactathon 05:33 What are people using to bookmark sites? Arc Browser 09:03 When not to use Static Site Generation (SSG), and when to use Server-side Rendering (SSR)? Svelte Kit 13:53 How do you do correct error handling to catch everything? Sentry.io 21:13 Sponsor: Sentry 22:50 Is there any benefit to using getters and setters in classes set them over plain methods? 27:47 Will there ever be a js framework that can SSR on a non-JS backend? Render pnpm 32:40 Have either of you thought about learning and teaching Python or Django? 34:56 What is your opinion on purchasing “Domain Privacy” with each domain? 37:49 Sponsor: Sanity 38:44 Domain privacy continued 39:22 How you deploy monorepo packages? Tanstack Vite 43:48 As a member of a non margin group should I avoid applying for jobs when they say they welcome applicants who are of a marginalized group to support diversity? 46:12 When would you, if ever, choose good-old React over something like Next JS? 53:24 Sponsor: Freshbooks 54:16 Is it preferred to import via absolute reference or relative reference? 00:23 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Air Compressor Wes: Blue Flush Cutter Mini Diagonal Cutting Pliers Side Cutter Nippers Wire Cutter Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Zod, a TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference. How are we using Zod? What do we like? And our thoughts on the Zod ecosystem.

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Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:48 Sponsor: LogRocket 02:54 Sponsor: Linode 04:07 Minecraft thoughts Minecraft 06:25 Scratch Scratch 07:19 What is Zod? Zod Zod comparison 10:05 Features of Zod 13:24 How we’re using Zod 14:40 How Zod works with MongoDB 15:51 3rd party plugins 19:35 Zod ecosystem Zod Ecosystem 22:22 Asynchronous validation Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about ADHD, how to tell if you have ADHD, issues related to ADHD for computer workers, anxiety vs ADHD, and more.

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Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 02:11 Guest introduction 03:00 Do I have ADHD? CHADD 09:12 What is the threshold for diagnosis? 11:43 Are there other issues for computer workers? Arc Browser Syntax 513 - The Productivity Episode 15:27 Avoiding difficult or boring things 17:04 Structuring your day 18:41 Sponsor: LogRocket 20:12 Any tips for working in a distracting environment? MyNoise.net Headspace 23:40 Can I learn to deal with things? 27:28 How can I support a team member with ADHD? Missive 31:51 Sponsor: Appwrite 32:47 Any lifestyle changes to help with ADHD? 38:26 How do you find medical help? 42:39 How do you tell the difference between discipline vs ADHD? 47:05 Anxiety vs ADHD? 48:36 Dyslexia and ADHD 53:31 Inheritable or genetic 54:50 Don’t rely on self-diagnoses Psychology Today 55:48 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Taking Charge of Adult ADHD Bird feeder Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell more of your scary web dev stories including lorem ipsum mistakes, naming something Skynet, blackouts, Twitch streaming, and more!

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Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.

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Show Notes 00:12 Weeeeeelcome 02:11 Slipsum mistake Slipsum 03:40 Brotli scaling explosion When JavaScript Bytes 05:14 Email loop Breaking Production with 56,000 emails 05:36 DevOops Magento store Example.com 08:26 Scary animal stories 11:09 Naming something Skynet 11:58 2003 Blackout 13:16 ExtJS error binding 17:09 Sponsor: Linode 17:55 Lead gen forms and captcha Issue Renaming upper-case ‘Sirupsen’ to ‘sirupsen’ Follow up 19:51 Scarlet Letter 21:51 MongoDB achievement story Adam Coster 26:14 Sponsor: Auth0 28:11 Drupal and mysql database fun 30:10 Nervous Twitch 34:03 FTP access story 37:24 Sponsor: LogRocket 38:53 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Ear foam tips Wes: Stepped drill bit / Aliexpress link Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain more buzz words like schema, promises, async, sync, dom vs shadow dom vs page HTML, props, and more.

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Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:17 Sponsor: Appwrite 03:16 Sponsor: Sanity 04:08 Schema Zod Apollo GraphQL 07:25 Promises 08:47 Async, Sync, Parallel and Concurrent 13:15 Dom vs Shadow Dom VS Page HTML 16:21 Methods vs Functions 18:18 Props 20:27 HTTP Requests are Stateless Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV about the tech stack used to deliver streaming TV content, build Apple TV apps, host media, and more.

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Today’s episode was sponsored by Gatsby, the fastest frontend for the headless web. Gatsby is the framework of choice for content-rich sites backed by a headless CMS as its GraphQL data layer makes it straightforward to source website content from anywhere. Gatsby’s opinionated, React-based framework makes the hardest parts of building a performant website simpler. Visit Gatsby.dev/Syntax to get your first Gatsby site up in minutes and experience the speed. ⚡️

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Storyblok is a headless component-based CMS with a real-time visual editor. It offers the flexibility for developers to craft their perfect tech stack, but it also empowers content creators to make changes independently. The result is that every team has the freedom to quickly and easily create the ideal website with limitless extensibility. Other key features include robust Storyblok SDKs and APIs, powerful internationalization options, and an eCommerce-ready platform.

Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 02:15 Guest introduction fbritoferreira.com @SkyShowtime Peacock 04:13 What do the systems look like inside of Sky? GraphQL Redis Apollo GraphQL 06:26 Do you use federation? 07:50 How do you handle caching? 11:24 What’s the tech stack for the front end? 13:30 Do you cache on client side? 15:27 How long has Sky been serverless? 16:55 Sponsor: Gatsby 18:05 How was Sky’s Apple TV app built? 21:17 Where did you host media? AWS Streaming Mux 24:37 Supporting live events 28:03 Sponsor: Storyblok 30:05 What language are you writing the GraphQL layer? The Guild 32:22 How do you define your types? 36:40 Supper Club questions Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad 44:28 Sponsor: ReTool 45:22 AppWrite AppWrite 48:42 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Anker 733 Power Bank (GaNPrime PowerCore 65W) Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets