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699: Potluck × TypeScript's Longevity × Canvas-Rendered Apps × Learning Rust × Executing Untrusted JS Code
29 november 2023 · 57 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions, including: Will TypeScript ever go away? Should I write canvas-rendered web apps? How can I execute untrusted JS code in node? How can I use continuous integration with WordPress? Any advice for learning Rust?
Show Notes 00:09 Welcome
01:16 How to ask questions for potluck episodes
Ask a question for Syntax potluck episodes Lees meer02:19 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
04:34 Will TypeScript ever go away?
Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript08:12 What is your opinion on entirely canvas-rendered web apps, such as those built with Flutter?
Flutter on the WebFlutter Gallery
html2canvas - Screenshots with JavaScript
13:43 Tailscale VPN is cool
Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure NetworksTunnel | Zero Trust App Connector | Cloudflare
16:36 What is Bandcamp?
BandcampStream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
18:56 How can I execute untrusted JS code with node?
WebAssemblyCloudflare Workers®
Deno, The next-generation JavaScript runtime
Fastly
23:46 I’d love to get your thoughts on modern devops and continuous integration for building out WordPress websites.
Supper Club × Fabian Kägy - Modern WordPress - Blocks, Page builders, Headless, Custom FieldsVite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
Alpine.js
30:39 How do I orchestrate color adapting icons for use inline and in background images?
svg.wesbos.comsvg.wesbos.com/cat.svg
35:53 Are there any publicly available libraries for web components?
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.Open UI
40:20 What’s a good project idea for learning Rust?
Tauri Apps45:17 Do you ever plan to do more podcasts with Scott’s wife or another psychologist / psychiatrist?
47:02 Have you tried MongoDB vector search for AI embeddings?
Atlas Vector Search | MongoDBVector Database for Vector Search | Pinecone
Xata
49:44 Syntax highlighting in VS Code
Comment tagged templates - Visual Studio Marketplace52:38 …
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698: Why You Should Be Using CSS @Layers
27 november 2023 · 26 min
What are @Layers in CSS, when and where should you be using them, how do you write them, and who’s using them already?
Show Notes 00:23 Welcome
01:49 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:55 Where is this supported?
07:21 How do we write layers?
10:47 How do you write your CSS?
16:20 Nesting
20:35 Who else is using @Layer?
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697: What is DevRel with Salma Alam-Naylor
24 november 2023 · 1 uur
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Salma Alam-Naylor all about her role in DevRel, what’s involved in working in DevRel, avoiding burnout, which platforms to focus on, and so much more.
Show Notes 00:31 Welcome
01:07 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:52 New jobs and onboarding
03:34 What is Devrel?
11:34 How much of devrel is using your own product? Dogfooding the service?
14:49 What are things devrel people do?
20:32 Devrel burnout issues
24:53 Once you put a number on something, you’re measuring that number
29:31 Is there any way to know if devrel is working?
33:47 How could someone get into devrel?
37:37 What platforms should you focus on?
44:12 What’s something devrel gets wrong?
47:50 What do you think about speaking at conferences?
51:58 What do you use to stay up on with tech?
53:59 Sick picks
Sick Picks Wikipedia on Hell.com Lees meerWeb Archive of Hell.com
Fffffound
https://twitter.com/webdesignmuseum
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696: How to Build a Website or App
22 november 2023 · 55 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer a listener’s question about their process for building a website in 2023. Do you start with design? With code? How do you decide on which CMS or if you need a CMS? How do you choose a backend framework? And where do you host it?
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
02:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
03:06 How do you build a website?
04:57 Start with the design
Figma Lees meerDesign Systems with Brad Frost
11:12 Choose a Frontend / Components
PugEJS
React
Svelte
Remix
Storybook
25:16 Real data or fake data?
PolypaneDrizzleORM
29:34 Do you need a CMS or not?
StatamicSyntax 254: Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup
WordPress.org
Astro
35:16 Choosing a backend language or framework
39:56 Testing
44:50 Where do you host your website?
VercelNetlify Drop
Glitch
CodePen
50:04 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Scott: Chip clipsWes: Soft close used toilet seat Amazon Warehouse Deals
Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry
Wes: Wes Bos Courses
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695: 5 New CSS Features You Should Know
20 november 2023 · 24 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about 5 new CSS features :nth-child(4 of .neat), CSS Motion Path, Scroll Snap, Scroll Driven Animations, and Margin Trim.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:10 :nth-child(4 of .neat)
selector list argument of :nth-child and :nth-last-child CSS pseudo-classes | Can I use Lees meer06:43 CSS Motion Path
10:38 Scroll Snap
Practical CSS Scroll Snapping14:36 Scroll Driven Animations
Scroll-driven AnimationsSupper Club × Bramus Van Damme on CSS
16:58 Margin Trim
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694: What's Up With Angular with Mark Techson
17 november 2023 · 56 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Techson about the recent Angular announcements and updates. How did Angular implement signals? What’s new in Angular 17? How does Angular handle CSS or UI component libraries?
Show Notes 00:30 Welcome
01:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:39 What’s changing with Angular?
Special Angular Event Lees meerAngular
03:19 What happened to Angular.js, and what’s happening now?
StackBlitzAnalog | Analog
Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-service with Brandon Roberts
08:19 What makes Angular special?
13:21 How did Angular implement signals?
17:17 What is a computed value?
18:54 What’s new in Angular 17?
25:10 What’s the meta framework story with Angular?
Angular Material UI component libraryCDK | Angular Material
Angular - Angular elements overview
27:40 Adding close to the metal if statements
31:03 View transitions
32:34 How does Angular handle CSS?
39:31 How does Angular integrate with UI component libraries?
41:07 What are headless components?
41:45 Does Angular work well with web components?
42:43 Supper Club Questions
Accessibility in Visual Studio CodeTechnology Radar Thoughtworks
RedMonk – The developer-focused analyst firm
Mermaid | Diagramming and charting tool
49:38 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engineShameless Plugs #goodmorningwithmark on Twitter
#goodmorningwithmark on YouTube
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693: Lessons Learned & Bugs Fixed from Launching Syntax.fm
15 november 2023 · 57 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the lessons they learned while launching the new Syntax website including launching now, transcription bugs, error monitoring, black text on black backgrounds, and more.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome to Syntax
01:41 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:43 Don’t wait. Launch!
04:28 Transcript bug
Most Powerful Speech-to-Text API | Deepgram Lees meer09:01 Error monitoring is a must
12:36 Timestamp error
16:20 Black text on black background might hide things
17:33 WASM Vercel file system
21:18 Things have gotten easier to launch
PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale23:36 Switching from OpenAI to Anthropic Claude and AI Responses aren’t always JSON
25:34 Local dev is fast
Navigation API31:37 Mind your payloads
32:41 GitHub Milestones
33:57 Almost forgot the Robots.txt
36:17 Chron job timeout
Inngest40:06 TypeScript errors don’t need to be zero to launch
42:25 GitHub Actions pipeline bug
43:23 Basic testing will do
Playwright44:56 Have a designer to work with
Airbase52:07 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Scott: Dog Poop Bags With DispenserWes: Resistance band
Shameless Plugs Scott: SentryWes: Wes Bos Courses
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692: You Need Stale While Revalidate
13 november 2023 · 22 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott explain what Stale While Revalidate is, why you should use it, and explore whether you should use it all the time on all the things.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:05 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:34 What is Stale While Revalidate?
03:13 Why is caching important?
Max age calculator Lees meerCan I Use
05:09 Where does a cache live?
07:05 Limit how often an API is being hit
11:51 What about Stale while Revalidate?
18:30 Why wouldn’t you just use Stale While Invalidate on everything?
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691: Cloudflare Workers Are Next Level With Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque
10 november 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more!
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers?
Announcing WinterJS Lees meerCloudflare Workers®
Puppeteer | Puppeteer
06:23 How long did Workers take to ship?
07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers?
10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers
12:33 What makes the edge important?
18:05 Managing GDPR compliance
19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers?
Cloudflare Queues20:22 How does Workers pricing work?
26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times?
28:50 Browser rendering API
Browser Rendering docs29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product?
Cloudflare D131:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive“Serverless” Databases
34:27 Cloudflare Workers don’t use a Node.js runtime
Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime37:13 What is WinterCG?
WinterCG45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing?
TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs49:30 What is miniflare?
🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare?
55:49 Cloudflare AI
Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easierCloudflare + AI
WebGPU API
Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs
57:04 Supper Club questions
59:38 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Get a bench scrapeShameless Plugs Cloudflare Discord
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690: How To Dark Mode and Beyond
8 november 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the process they are using for extending the Syntax website with themes, including a dark mode and secret custom themes. They also talk about issues encountered with theming and CSS, including flashes of un-themed content.
Show Notes 00:00 Syntax + Sentry Announcement!
01:35 Welcome
02:23 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
03:16 How to implement a theme
10:27 Writing the CSS
11:38 Glasses wearers protip
13:02 Class on the body and server side rendering issue
14:02 CSS Variables
15:05 Color variables in CSS
21:07 Working in half pixel sizes
22:40 Variable usage
25:23 Naming variables after what they style
30:42 Component level variables
33:27 Using zones
38:41 Themes should be defined as light or dark
39:20 Issues: Moving from light to dark
42:29 Issues: Drop shadow in dark mode
44:00 Issues: Flash of unthemed content
44:40 Issues: Opacity values
49:45 Issues: SVG need change color
55:56 Help is on the way!
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website/src/styles/themes/level-up.css at v2 Lees meerThe 2023 State of CSS Survey Part 2 × CSS Frameworks × Tooling × Browser Usage
“color-contrast” | Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with light-dark() – Bram.us
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689: You Should Be Using JavaScript Maps & Sets
6 november 2023 · 28 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why you should be using JavaScript maps sets, whether you can access them directly, what makes them great, and what weak versions of both are.
Show Notes 00:26 Welcome
01:34 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:54 What makes Maps a spicy buffalo object?
07:46 API of Map
08:51 Looping over items in a Map
09:27 Can you change the size of a map after it’s been created?
10:07 Can you access properties directly?
12:13 Where have we used a map as a cache?
13:32 What makes a set an array honey garlic array?
17:28 When should you be using sets instead of an array?
Proposed Highlight API is built on Sets Lees meer21:47 Can you spread sets like an array?
22:40 Weak versions of map and set
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688: Ex-npm Employee Making a New Package Manager?! Vlt with Darcy Clarke
3 november 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet!
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day
08:54 How did you land at npm?
npm Lees meer19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry?
22:11 What is vlt volt?
vlt: a new home for open sourcevlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X
Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
Bun
Yarn
Nx
27:18 Do you see a future where we don’t pre-compile before shipping?
29:32 Why would pnpm be faster than npm?
31:14 What are the problems with symlinking?
33:08 What’s happening with Yarn?
VerdaccioCloudsmith
jfrong
Sonatype
socket.dev
Snyk.io
Dependency Confusion
37:42 What do you think about config files?
antfu Config of File Nesting for VS CodeThe massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
WebTorrent
41:02 VS Code tip - file nesting patterns
41:59 How does on-prem registry work?
47:29 Where does Socket.dev and Snyk security fit?
52:46 Sick Picks
04:41 How did you get vlt.sh?
05:30 How did you get @Darcy?
Sick Picks Flat Coat GoldendoodleScientific American
Nespresso
BlackBerry (2023) - IMDb
BlackBerry (2023) Letterboxd
Matthias Wandel
Blink-182 Official Site
Moneen
Bring Me The Horizon
Shameless Plugs vlt: a new home for open source
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687: Hosting NextJS × Spicy Sidedishes × Modern Forms × Abandoning TypeScript
1 november 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about hosting NextJS, spicy sidedishes, putting forms in modern websites, why is everyone abandoning TypeScript, CSS Survey follow up, do devs need to be into CSS, and more!
Show Notes 00:10 How to submit a question to Syntax
Syntax Potluck Listener Questions Lees meer00:45 Syntax meet up in Toronto
02:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:36 Vendor lock in with NextJS?
Next.js by VercelVercel
SST
Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad — Syntax Podcast 589
Cloudflare Pages
Netlify
Open source Next.js serverless adapter
09:48 🌶️ Spicy Sidedish: Stop calling Firefox the new IE
Jen Simmons16:40 Can you compare Database as a service and provide your recommendation and suggestions?
“Serverless” Databases — Syntax Podcast 551PlanetScale
Firebase
20:00 How do I do native forms outside of CMS like WordPress?
Builder.io28:01 Why have Svelte and Turbo abandoned Typescript?
32:17 Why are companies hesitant to migrate to Next?
33:36 Is React Native dead?
38:33 Do I use the keyword “new” when throwing an Error or not?
41:59 touch-action use case
Announcing QuinaQuina - Menu
Announcing Hondo
Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less
42:57 Subgrid and the :has selector usage
46:02 Is it okay to be a front end developer and not be as interested in CSS?
Tool Academy (American TV series)51:12 Could you explain what are workers, processes, jobs, tasks, and deamons?
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686: We Need Your Help With The Secret Sauce
30 oktober 2023 · 28 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the secret sauce that’s going into the creation of the new Syntax.fm website including the styling, search, tooling, database, hosting, and more.
Show Notes 00:21:15 Welcome
01:10:11 Where did the name “Secret Sauce” come from?
03:16:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
04:32:11 What Syntax.fm is built in?
SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Lees meermuxinc/media-chrome: Custom elements (web components) for making audio and video player controls that look great in your website or app.
Media Chrome Docs
07:24:01 How we’re doing search
flexsearch - npm12:22:20 Styling
Prettier · Opinionated Code FormatterPostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
16:00:05 Tooling
Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm18:55:11 Database
Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript21:11:11 Services
DeepgramOpenAI
Anthropic \ Introducing Claude
24:34:11 Hosting
Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teamsPlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale
Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare
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685: Jason Lengstorf on Live Streaming, Creating Content, and Building a Studio Space
27 oktober 2023 · 58 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jason Lengstorf about his journey in video creation, live streaming, and tech education. What’s up with Jason’s new studio? How does he prep for a live stream?
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
02:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:39 Who is Jason Lengstorf?
05:43 Why did you decide to go full time on Learn with Jason?
10:04 Jason’s new YouTube series idea
13:36 Jason gets a special delivery
14:30 What’s in Jason’s new studio?
20:14 What’s the ideal medium for content in 2023?
24:28 Treat decisions as forever, for now.
26:01 Is live streaming as difficult to get into as it seems?
29:21 How do you prepare for a live stream?
32:58 How do you decide what to create?
38:23 How do you feel about React?
40:21 What are your thoughts on AI?
49:08 Supper Club questions
56:25 Sick Picks
Sarah Drasner’s Site Lees meerAnimation With Svelte (with Scott Tolinski) — Learn With Jason
Gatsby
Netlify
Jessica Kobeissi
ANDREW HUANG
Theo Browne
Cassidy Williams
Bytes - The Best JavaScript Newsletter
ZSA Moonlander:
ErgoDox EZ
Operator Fonts
Night Owl
SyntaxFM by SyntaxFM
MD IO
ILME-FX3 | Interchangeable-lens Cameras
FE 24-70 mm F2.8 GM
Sick Picks Synergy - Share one mouse & keyboard across computers
Shameless Plugs LearnWithJason.dev: Learn. Build. Grow. Together.
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684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2
25 oktober 2023 · 50 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott relate even more spooky listener submitted coding horrors including crypto copy paste, Big Brother bug, losing $50,000, 2,000 SMS, a $20,000 hour, and more.
Show Notes 00:09 Velcome to Synax
01:09 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:36 Stories are anonymous!
01:57 Crypto copy + paste
03:48 Big Brother Bug
07:00 One of 6 laptops that can fix npm
07:57 Auto-submitting payments
09:42 40,000 orders shipped and refunded
11:16 Dropping the analytics database
11:40 dev was actually production
12:40 Updating the DNS
13:40 Losing ~$50,000
15:30 Clearing 80 million records
16:21 Web chat DDoS
18:00 URL Shortener #$@%#
Ontario’s rejected licence plates for 2022 | CP24.com Lees meerBoonta Vista: A “political” podcast for “smart” people
21:12 Sending an email to 20,000 users
21:42 Moving code to GitHub
23:32 “Lorem sale”
26:08 2,000 SMS messages
27:00 International shipment of kiosks
28:19 Crashing production
Slow DB Queries | Sentry Documentation31:01 Hitting customers credit card limit
32:01 Infinite redirect loop
32:53 My first commit
33:23 Augmented reality game prize mistakes
35:15 A $20,000 hour
35:57 Site went down for 3 days
37:42 Accidentally truncated the prod database
38:48 Off by one error
40:05 Exposing database credentials
42:08 Delete a temp directory on prod
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683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1
23 oktober 2023 · 32 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more.
Show Notes 00:21 Welcome
01:22 Whetting your whistle
01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country
04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident
05:54 The Pull Request Oversight
08:02 Making changes to a JSON file
13:11 Deploying a “disallow everything” robots.txt
14:45 GDPR Deletion
16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres
17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update
18:34 Email fail
19:25 Hot mobile app prayers
22:28 Bogus ACH info
23:51 Wiring money error
26:44 Payment gateway test not production
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Design Systems with Brad Frost
20 oktober 2023 · 1 uur
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brad Frost about how to implement design systems in small and large scale projects, best practices around naming things, keeping everything in sync across different codebases, and how design systems help projects.
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:02 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:34 Introducing Brad Frost
Brad Frost.com Lees meerAtomic Design by Brad Frost
Brad (@brad_frost) on Twitter
Brad on LinkedIn
Brad on Mastodon
Brad on YouTube
Brad on GitHub
Brad Frost on CodePen
Big Medium | Design for What’s Next
06:43 What is a design system?
12:12 How do you keep design and code in sync?
Material DesignShopify Polaris
Carbon Design System
The Design System Ecosystem | Brad Frost
16:13 How do you use Shopify, WordPress, React, etc. through a design system?
19:41 How is CSS handled?
25:40 What’s the benefit of going all in on web components?
29:13 Do small startups need to worry about design systems?
33:03 How do design tokens work?
38:17 How do you deal with pushback on design systems?
41:46 How do you go outside the guidelines?
45:24 What system do you use for naming things?
49:34 How do you best document your language choices?
51:09 Supper Club questions
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller: Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright: 9781603580557: Amazon.com: BooksMiriam Eric Suzanne
Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design - Famous for stating the obvious.
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681: What's New in AI for Web Developers
18 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
03:49 v0.dev
v0 by Vercel Lees meer09:28 Anthropic and Claude
ClaudeSyntax Listener Survey
18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI
AI at Meta18:48 Cloudflare AI
Large language model (LLM)Speech to text
Translation
Sentiment Analysis
Image classification
Embedding
27:24 AI Hardware announced
Rewind29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code
Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications
36:28 OpenAI Function calling
Function calling and other API updates38:55 GPT-4V
GPT-4V(ision) system card42:36 GitHub CoPilot
44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train?
48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers?
52:24 Spotify DJ AI
Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ53:29 ChatGPT plugins
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680: Getting jQuery’d × Honourable Deaths of libraries We Don’t Use Anymore
16 oktober 2023 · 32 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the libraries we don’t need to use anymore thanks to their features being built into the browsers now.
Show Notes 00:24 Welcome
01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:17 Why did people use jQuery?
jQuery Lees meerlukeed/polka: A micro web server so fast, it’ll make you dance!
05:12 Writing our own jQuery plugins
07:23 AJAX requests
jQuery.ajax()08:29 Express
Migrating to Express 514:58 Underscore.JS
Underscore.js19:27 Require.js
RequireJS21:06 LeftPad
Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” | Ars Technica23:13 Grid systems
960 Grid SystemSusy | OddBird
26:24 Sass, Less, etc.
Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet? — Syntax Podcast 60326:58 Sockets.io
Socket.IO
29:50 What else is going to get jQuery’d?
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679: Creator of Swift, Tesla Autopilot & Tensorflow. New AI language Mojo with Chris Lattner
13 oktober 2023 · 56 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Chris Lattner about Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Should developers learn Python? Where does Mojo run? What is Chris excited about in AI’s future?
Show Notes 00:31 Welcome
01:05 Introducing Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner’s Homepage Lees meerChris Lattner on Wikipedia
Chris Lattner on GitHub
Chris Lattner on Twitter
Modular (@Modular_AI) / X
Modular: AI development starts here
Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org
03:50 What’s the history behind the hardware?
08:10 What’s the difference between a compiled language vs an interpreted language?
12:13 Is Mojo a programming language?
Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI15:12 Are Python libraries compatible with Mojo?
15:26 Why did you choose Python?
16:49 Why is AI so Python focused?
19:19 Should web developers learn Python?
21:40 Where does Mojo run?
25:05 How did you use the flame emoji for the Mojo file extension?
29:05 How does machine learning actually work?
37:36 Will Mojo be open source in some way?
39:16 How do you start developing a new programming language?
43:14 What is the future of developer jobs?
45:30 What are you excited about with AI in the future?
47:24 Supper Club questions
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678: The 2023 State of CSS Survey Part 2 × CSS Frameworks × Tooling × Browser Usage
11 oktober 2023 · 56 min
In this episode of Syntax, it’s part 2 of Wes and Scott’s reactions to the 2023 State of CSS survey including CSS frameworks, tooling, browser usage, SVG and CSS, and the CSS Awards.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
Reacting to State of CSS Survey — Syntax Podcast 672 Lees meerState of CSS 2023
01:15 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:29 CSS Frameworks
Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.Open Props: sub-atomic styles
Lightning CSS
10:57 How happy are you with CSS frameworks?
17:21 Other tools
CSS Analytics - Project Wallace19:34 Top utilities in use
24:48 Browser usage
29:01 CSS usage
33:25 Browser incompatibilities
36:42 SVG and CSS
44:28 Resources for learning CSS
Kevin Powell | CSS EvangelistFireship - Learn to Code Faster
LeveUp Tutorials
46:55 Awards
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677: Home Office Tips
9 oktober 2023 · 27 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through tips for upping your home office vibe, including cable management, lighting, ergonomics, and even roller blade wheels.
Show Notes 00:18 Welcome
00:46 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:13 Creating a great home office
Scott’s New Office × The Levelup Lodge — Syntax Podcast 461 Lees meerWes’ New Soundproof Office — Syntax Podcast 516
03:22 Lighting
06:08 Clutter and cords
Alex Tech 25ft - 1/2 inch Cord Protector WireD-Line CC-1 Light Duty Floor Cord Cover/Cable Protector
Cable Clips
WireRun Under Desk Cable Manager 14"
10:33 Clean
13:42 Sound absorption
Bose QuietComfort 35 II reviewWyze Noise-Cancelling Headphones
19:26 Ergonomics
VIVO Single Monitor Height Adjustable Counterbalance Pneumatic Arm Desk Mount Stand23:17 Roller blade wheels for your chair
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676: Google IDX - VS Code in the Browser with David East
6 oktober 2023 · 59 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with David East about Google’s new cloud based full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow, Project IDX.
Show Notes 00:22 Welcome
01:31 Browser in the car
02:16 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:24 Who is David East?
David East Lees meerDavid East
David East (@_davideast) / X
Learn from David East’s courses | Frontend Masters
Firebase | Google’s Mobile and Web App Development Platform
04:32 What is IDX?
Project IDXFlutter - Build apps for any screen
Welcome to nix.dev — nix.dev documentation
13:15 What’s the experience of IDX?
Nx: Smart, Fast and Extensible Build System16:42 IDX isn’t just a toy - it’s a dev machine
20:29 What’s the offline mode like?
23:30 How are VS Code extensions handled?
27:03 Is multiplayer or project sharing on the road map?
28:45 How is latency taken care of?
31:43 This could be faster than local dev environment
36:18 Portability of your projects
42:25 What do you think about iPad coding?
44:28 Phone testing with IDX
Firebase Test Lab46:59 How is AI being integrated?
50:23 Supper Club questions
Introducing Operator | Fonts by Hoefler&Co.MD IO by Mass-Driver - Future Fonts
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675: Potluck × Bun Thoughts × Guesting on Syntax × Why Rust?
4 oktober 2023 · 57 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about Bun, using custom auth headers, the difference between trpc, REST, or GraphQL, documenting your code, why learn Rust, and more!
Show Notes Take the Syntax Survey
Attend the Syntax Meetup Oct 10th in Toronto
00:00 Syntax Survey
00:24 Syntax Meetup
01:02 Welcome
01:24 Scott’s macOS bug
Tauri Apps Lees meer02:19 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:40 What are your thoughts on Bun?
Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtimeZig Programming Language
Deno, The next-generation JavaScript runtime
Cloudflare Workers
Netlify Connect
Storybook
Histoire
11:25 How can I add custom auth header for image requests done by the browser?
17:32 What are the differences between trpc, REST, and graphql?
24:48 What kind of teams would use trpc, REST, or graphql?
27:12 Are there any podcast guest opportunities on Syntax?
32:21 With no initial documentation, how do you suggest we document our intricate code, business logic, and integrations?
38:53 Rust didn’t invent this, they’re common paradigms in languages
41:05 Why Rust?
Rust Programming Language43:52 Is Scott still using his Tonal?
Tonal44:42 What did I do to make Fetch rebel against me?
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674: A11y Treats - Heading Design
2 oktober 2023 · 28 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about headings on your website, why you should care, how to structure your headings, and what tooling is there for testing your website?
Show Notes 00:26 Welcome
01:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:41 Why do we care about Headings?
How-to: Accessible heading structure - The A11Y Project Lees meer03:12 Heading design provides an outline for your website
08:45 Using H1 classes?
10:28 Is the logo an H1?
13:03 Giving an ARIA level
17:14 Can headings be visually hidden?
21:00 Benefits of good heading design
22:27 Tooling
Heading outlines - ADGHTML Standard
Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers
HeadingsMap - Chrome Web Store
HeadingsMap – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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673: Getting Hired, Interviewing, and Why Recruiters Suck with Taylor Desseyn
29 september 2023 · 56 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Taylor Desseyn about his work as a job recruiter, how hiring has changed over the last few years, what soft and tech skills developers need, what not to do when applying, and how AI is affecting the hiring process.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
01:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:35 Who is Taylor Desseyn?
taylor desseyn (/tdesseyn) Lees meerTaylor Desseyn on LinkedIn
World-class technical talent on tap | Gun.io
taylor desseyn (@tdesseyn) / X
Taylor Desseyn
03:49 Why are recruiters just sending emails?
05:26 How much does a recruiter make?
06:44 How have things changed in the last couple of years?
09:22 How can developers stand out when applying?
13:52 What do developers do that cost them jobs?
28:46 What soft skills are employers looking for?
32:01 What tech skills are showing up in job postings?
34:57 Are resumes dead?
40:16 How does Gun.io vet people?
World-class technical talent on tap | Gun.io43:15 How is AI changing hiring?
46:03 What’s working on social media marketing in hiring?
48:33 Supper Club questions
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Reacting to State of CSS Survey
27 september 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott go over some of the results the State of CSS survey for 2023, including drop-shadow, subgrid, logical properties, media range, and more!
Show Notes 00:25:21 Welcome
01:31:22 Soccer update
03:52:05 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
04:03:18 StateOfCSS.com Lees meerState of CSS 2023
04:21:11 Top 5 Most Used Features
09:13:09 Drop-shadow
13:00:11 Subgrid
18:31:21 Logical properties
20:11:20 Media range
20:52:11 Object view box
23:10:14 Anchor positioning
28:21:09 Intrinsic sizing keywords
29:32:00 View Transitions API
Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etcAstro
Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580
31:43:18 Updates to colors in CSS
35:07:05 Accent color, current color
36:36:11 Scroll snap and overscroll behaviour
39:04:22 Touch action
40:16:01 Line clamp or variable font
Variable Fonts45:28:11 Accessibility features
48:33:12 :Has has jumped
49:32:11 @Property
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Tauri Vs Electron - Desktop Apps with Web Tech
25 september 2023 · 29 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the building desktop apps using Electron vs Tauri.
Show Notes 00:26 Welcome
00:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:15 Check my hair app
Tauri Apps Lees meerElectron
Hand Mirror on the Mac App Store
SoFriendly/2fhey
04:19 What is Tauri?
08:23 The experience of writing apps in Electron vs Tauri
16:17 Electron Forge
20:02 Building the same app in Electron vs Tauri
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Anxiety and Uncertainty with Dr. Courtney Tolinski
22 september 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about signs and symptoms of anxiety, what the long term effects are of anxiety, how to know if you need help, and what kinds of things you can do to deal with anxiety and uncertainty.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
01:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:23 Introducing Dr. Courtney Tolinski
Mental Health and Dev ft Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Depression, Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, Focus, Motivation, Burnout — Syntax Podcast 236 Lees meerSupper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski — Syntax Podcast 532
04:13 What is anxiety?
06:44 Is there a difference between anxiety and just not wanting to do something?
08:58 What kinds of physical symptoms are there?
15:43 What are the longer term effects of anxiety?
17:34 How do you know if you need help with anxiety?
21:05 What can I do to solve my anxiety?
Psychology Today Canada: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a TherapistObsidian - Sharpen your thinking
How We Feel
Apple Reveals More iOS 17 Features Not Available Until Later This Year - MacRumors
Meditation and Sleep Made Simple - Headspace
Bearable Symptom Tracker, Mood Journal, & Health App
BreathingApp — Personal breathing trainer for a better health
30:15 How can we recognize anxiety triggers?
33:26 What advice do you have for dealing with uncertainty?
37:54 How can I deal with keeping up with everything and feeling like I’m falling behind?
43:02 Navigating big life decisions
51:39 Supper Club questions
Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest HansonCelebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily on Apple Podcasts
Criminality
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The Svelte + SvelteKit Show
20 september 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes reviews his experience building with Svelte and SvelteKit including templating, data fetching, actions, managing state, request handlers, and more.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
01:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:11 What is Svelte vs SvelteKit
From React To SvelteKit — Syntax Podcast 390 Lees meerHasty Treat - Wes & Scott Look At Svelte 3 — Syntax Podcast 173
Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps
SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
05:59 Templating in Svelte
18:20 Data fetching in SvelteKit
25:23 Actions
28:58 State
32:41 Binding values
36:18 Hooks
37:25 Request handlers
Special elements • Docs • Sveltewebsite/src/actions/anchor.ts at v2 · syntaxfm/website
website/src/actions/click_outside.ts at v2 · syntaxfm/website
39:23 Svelte Actions
42:26 Popover API
45:33 Routing
47:22 Layouts
50:08 Styling
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Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic?
18 september 2023 · 36 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how you can intercept and debug traffic going out from your computer or other internet connected devices in your home, or your garage!
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:17 Scott’s story of wanting to intercept data
Tonal Lees meer06:36 Other examples
08:38 Different types of traffic
14:52 TCP vs UDP
16:07 Why would you want to run a proxy?
24:20 Applications to use
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse ProxyProxyman · Native, Modern Web Debugging Proxy · Inspect network traffic from Mac, iOS, Android devices with ease
Intercept, debug & mock HTTP with HTTP Toolkit
mitmproxy - an interactive HTTPS proxy
Wireshark · Go Deep
Little Snitch
Capturing Modes - Fiddler Everywhere
Hacksore on Twitter
How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style
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Supper Club × How To Get Your First Dev Job With Stuart Bloxham
15 september 2023 · 48 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Stuart Bloxham about how he learned to code, what his interview process was like when applying for a job, how he found the time to make it all work, and his thoughts on bootcamps and ways to learn.
Show Notes 00:36 Welcome
Stuart Bloxham on GitHub Lees meerStuart Bloxham on LinkedIn
02:09 How did you decide to be a web developer?
08:22 Did you have clarity when your kid was born?
10:20 What was the interview process like?
18:25 What and how did you learn?
20:28 What’s the state of bootcamps in 2023?
22:03 How important have soft skills been?
25:14 How do you know when you’re ready to apply for a job?
35:24 Do you like coding?
37:49 How did you find the time to make it all work?
41:42 How did you deal with burnout?
43:06 Supper Club questions
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Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button
13 september 2023 · 51 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the projects they built during Sentry’s Hackweek: a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor, and a hardware recording button.
Show Notes 00:11 Welcome
00:57 What is a hack week?
01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
03:42 Scott’s project: a multiplayer editor
Liveblocks | Collaborative experiences in days, not months Lees meerPartyKit | Everything is better with friends
BlockNote - Javascript Block-Based text editor | BlockNote
Dev toolkit for building collaborative editors – Tiptap
microsoft/monaco-editor: A browser based code editor
syntaxfm/hackweek-md-multiplayer-editor: Sentry.io Hackweek Submisison - A multiplayer editor for .md files that comits directly to GitHub
Convex | The fullstack TypeScript development platform
The Everything App
13:57 Multiplayer is so much easier
19:56 Wes’ project: A recording button
Oracle VM VirtualBoxRun Windows on Mac – Parallels Desktop 19 Virtual Machine for Mac
Karabiner-Elements
folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac!
Home Assistant
The World’s Leading 2D and 3D Platform | Unity Pro Free Trial
SendCutSend | Online Laser Cutting and Waterjet Cutting
blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
42:31 Learning to skateboard
43:59 F1 documentary follow up
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CSS Nesting is Here!
11 september 2023 · 31 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the arrival of CSS nesting. What is CSS nesting? How does CSS nesting work? And does it work in all browsers?
Show Notes 00:24 Welcome
02:31 What’s up with CSS nesting?
"CSS Nesting just landed in Firefox 117 which puts it at 100% browser support! You can start using it today — here are 11 examples on how it works 👇 Lees meer04:10 How does CSS nesting work?
09:23 What the ampersand does in nesting
21:05 It works with media queries
25:29 How does it work on all the browsers?
29:32 Lightning CSS
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Supper Club × What's New With Astro with Fred Schott
8 september 2023 · 55 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 3x guest Fred Schott!
Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580 Lees meerPika Pkg — Syntax Podcast 212
05:11 What is Astro?
07:37 What’s new in Astro v3?
Astro 3.0 | Astro14:18 Behind the scenes improvements in Astro v3
18:17 HMR Enhancements
20:10 What’s the hosting partner deal with Vercel?
Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner | Astro28:04 Docs template Starlight announcement
Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro31:28 How often do you release updates?
33:47 Marketing open source
Time to suit up | Astro ShopSvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
36:18 Making major version numbers less scary
40:04 Does Astro use Vite?
Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling42:01 Is it different working on a framework than a tool like Snowpack?
43:53 Thoughts on cloud text editors
Project IDX47:02 How do you keep up to date?
48:43 Do you write in TypeScript?
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Potluck × Soft Skills × Release Notes × Headless CMS × Organizing Code × Inet CSS?
6 september 2023 · 1 uur
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning soft skills, using release notes, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, what inet is, better ways to use ChatGPT, and more!
Show Notes 00:11 Welcome
01:42 Scott’s butt pincher
Affenpinscher Lees meer06:08 You keep missing my favorite thing about Civet
Civet07:31 What soft skills can I learn to help me in my career?
HTML, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks12:42 Have you thought about release notes or a what’s new section?
Conventional CommitsHow to generate Changelog using Conventional Commits | by Riccardo Canella | Jobtome Engineering | Medium
15:57 Can you explain headless CMS and what the use-cases/implementations are?
19:24 Any suggestions for dealing with web components and the client’s tracking scripts
How to Read Flamegraphs 🔥Chromium F12 Profiler: The Main Thread Pane
Agent Creation has a large CPU time · Issue #915 · bluesky-social/atproto
25:27 Why do we need .d.ts files in TypeScript?
30:15 What is inset in CSS?
inset - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN35:06 Is there a way to use AI/chat gpt to more quickly and easily understand technical documentation?
Anthropic \ HomeGetting Started 🚀 Astro Documentation
ChatGPT Plugin - AskTheCode | GPTStore.ai
ChatGPT Plugin - Scraper | GPTStore.ai
Overview | TanStack Query Docs
Custom instructions for ChatGPT
40:59 why is the following true: the string “undefined”.includes(undefined)?
43:27 How do you organize your code directories?
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JavaScript Closures & Scope Explained
4 september 2023 · 24 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
01:49 Being tired
The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre Lees meer05:08 Landscaping
10:53 Gym updates
23:01 House projects
28:39 Why are search engines so awful these days?
39:20 Internet routing
45:17 Linus Tech Tips ethics and issues
48:29 Rewiring a kid’s ATV
50:49 What we’re watching
The Stronger By Science PodcastWatch Full Swing | Netflix Official Site
Break Point | Official Trailer | Netflix
Watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive | Netflix Official Site
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Supper Club × Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
1 september 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Erikson about his work in helping others understand shipping ESM, how to deal with permutations, whether default imports are helpful, whether TypeScript has made it easier, and what Mark’s tool stack is for building.
Show Notes 00:36 Welcome
01:45 Introducing Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
Mark Erikson (@acemarke) Lees meerWes Bos on Twitter: “publishing packages that work in esm and cjs is such a nightmare. I’ve run into so many issues today and took forever to get the proper package.json exports. I can’t wait until we’re 100% esm. I think I have every single combo covered.”
Mark’s Dev Blog
Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
Greatest Hits: The Most Popular and Most Useful Posts I’ve Written
arethetypeswrong.github.io: Tool for analyzing TypeScript types of npm packages
publint
07:01 How did we get to this space in modules?
16:30 How do you deal with permutations?
22:13 Do bundlers get in the way or helping?
26:16 Are default imports useful?
30:35 Are the types wrong errors
33:41 Has TypeScript made this easier?
37:56 What’s your tool stack for building?
39:32 How do you test?
41:35 Will we ever stop bundling?
48:03 What about source maps?
52:32 Supper Club Questions
What is Windows Subsystem for LinuxEagle Oceanic Next
DroidSansMono NF Font
55:18 React Types has more downloads than React?
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Anything but Coding - Landscaping, Fitness, and more!
30 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
01:49 Being tired
The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre Lees meer05:08 Landscaping
10:53 Gym updates
23:01 House projects
28:39 Why are search engines so awful these days?
39:20 Internet routing
45:17 Linus Tech Tips ethics and issues
48:29 Rewiring a kid’s ATV
50:49 What we’re watching
The Stronger By Science PodcastWatch Full Swing | Netflix Official Site
Break Point | Official Trailer | Netflix
Watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive | Netflix Official Site
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OG Image Options
28 augustus 2023 · 30 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about OG images, interesting ways you can work with them, and ways you can work dynamically with them.
Show Notes 00:11 Welcome
02:18 What are OG images?
06:19 Testing OG images
Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers Lees meerMeta Tags — Preview, Edit and Generate
Sharing Debugger - Meta for Developers
Card Validator | Twitter Developers
08:27 Creating an OG image
vercel/satori: Enlightened library to convert HTML and CSS to SVGOpen Graph (OG) Image Generation | Vercel Docs
Introducing OG Image Generation: Fast, dynamic social card images at the Edge – Vercel
09:41 Dynamically generating OG images
wesbos.com/thumbnail/?thumbnail=%2Fstatic%2F0005c028a536c87975eb84ae3d32ae57%2Faeron.jpg&title=Uses&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwesbos.com%2Fuses21:16 Using Puppeteer
Puppeteer | PuppeteerPuppeteer · Browser Rendering docs
Cloudinary - Image and Video Upload, Store ad Monetization
Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright
28:47 Canva API
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Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai
25 augustus 2023 · 50 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used a VCR?
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
00:57 Introducing Aiden Bai
Aiden Bai Lees meeraidenybai on GitHub
@aidenybai on Twitter
Aiden Bai on YouTube
Million.js
01:57 What is Million.js?
03:20 How does React do rendering now?
04:31 How does Million.js make it faster?
07:37 What goes into creating a compiler?
08:24 How do you go from learning JavaScript to writing compilers?
11:05 Wyze WebRTC stream work
13:13 What are you using to benchmark and test?
solidjs.comjs-framework-benchmark
xkcd: Compiling
18:19 What does a slowly rendering site look like?
23:54 How do you handle find on page with large amounts of code?
25:32 What does 70% faster with Million.js mean?
Hyper™Warp: Your terminal, reimagined
26:44 Why are maps slow?
Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion — Syntax Podcast 64328:19 Benefits of the Macro API
31:12 Does Million.js work across the board?
33:03 Does it ever break projects? How do you test Million.js?
35:35 How do you keep up on your GitHub issues?
37:40 What other areas of tech are you interested in working on?
partytown39:32 What was the inspiration for your website?
43:52 Supper Club questions
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Rust for JS Devs — Part 2
23 augustus 2023 · 56 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott jump into part 2 of their look at Rust for JavaScript developers, including variables in Rust, type systems in Rust, signed and unsigned integers, and more.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
00:43 Audio issue bugs
03:17 Building decks
06:06 Variables in Rust
Syntax 647: Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts Lees meerlet x = 5; // x is immutable let mut x = 5; // x is mutable const MAX_POINTS: u32 = 100_000; // must be defined at compile time 10:42 Type System in Rust
15:52 Types in Rust
19:06 Why does Rust have signed and unsigned integers?
23:35 Slicing strings with &str
27:35 enum
27:55 struct
28:19 Vec
29:33 HashMap and HashSet
33:00 Converting Signed to Unsigned Numbers
let unsigned_value: u8 = 200; let signed_value: i8 = unsigned_value as i8; 36:12 What’s up with &str?
43:31 Rust error messages
45:28 What is a Struct?
struct User { username: String, email: String, sign_in_count: u64, active: bool, } // You can create an instance of a struct like this: let user1 = User { email: String::from("someone@example.com"), username: String::from("someusername123"), active: true, sign_in_count: 1, }; impl User { fn login(&mut self) { self.login_count += 1; } } 49:17 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
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8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API
21 augustus 2023 · 20 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about 8 tricks to try when using the Fetch() API.
Show Notes 00:23 Welcome
02:14 1) Stream The Result
// Create a new TextDecoder instance const decoder = new TextDecoder(); // Make the fetch request fetch('https://api.example.com/streaming-data') .then(response => { // Check if the response is valid if (!response.ok) { throw new Error('Network response was not ok'); } // Stream the response data using a TextDecoder const reader = response.body.getReader(); // Function to read the streamed chunks function read() { return reader.read().then(({ done, value }) => { // Check if the streaming is complete if (done) { console.log('Streaming complete'); return; } // Decode and process the streamed data const decodedData = decoder.decode(value, { stream: true }); console.log(decodedData); // Continue reading the next chunk return read(); }); } // Start reading the chunks return read(); }) .catch(error => { // Handle errors console.log('Error:', error); }); 06:05 2) Download Progress
Download progress example Lees meer09:40 3) Cancel Streams - Abort Controller
// Create an AbortController instance const controller = new AbortController(); // Set a timeout to abort the request after 5 seconds const timeout = setTimeout(() => { controller.abort(); }, 5000); // Fetch request with the AbortController fetch('https://api.example.com/data', { signal: controller.signal }) 11:32 4) Testing if JSON is returned
13:18 5) async + await + catch
const data = await fetch().catch(err => console.log(err));
14:42 6) to awaited - return error and data at top level
const [err, data] = collect(fetch()) if(err) // .... await-to-js - npm16:58 7) Dev tools - Copy as fetch
17:54 8) You can programatically create a Request, Response and Headers objects
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Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski
18 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more.
Show Notes 00:35 Welcome
01:07 What is Descript?
Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Lees meerWork — Sandwich
02:21 Who is Andrew Lisowski?
Andrew Lisowski (@HipsterSmoothie) / Xhipstersmoothie.com
Descript (@DescriptApp) / X
devtools.fm
04:51 How does Descript interact with the webcam?
08:52 Web streams vs local first
Web Streams Explained — Syntax Podcast 58710:06 How are you exporting video?
GitHub - Yahweasel/libav.js: This is a compilation of the libraries associated with handling audio and video in ffmpeg—libavformat, libavcodec, libavfilter, libavutil, libswresample, and libswscale—for emscripten, and thus the web.Riverside.fm - Record Podcasts And Videos From Anywhere
14:40 How does Descript deal with recording fails?
17:17 How does Descript design and build the UI?
19:37 What did you like about state machines?
XState - JavaScript State Machines and Statecharts24:12 How are you writing your CSS with Radix?
Themes – Radix UIHome | Open UI
30:30 How does the marketing site’s tech stack compare?
31:44 Playwright vs Cypress
Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | PlaywrightJavaScript Component Testing and E2E Testing Framework | Cypress
36:26 What tech do you use for monorepos?
37:01 What’s your build tool?
Workspaces | Yarn - Package ManagerTurbo
webpack
40:18 Moving to the web means moving things to the backend
41:37 Descript focuses AI tools on helping creators
Eye Contact: AI Video Effect | Descript50:50 Supper Club questions
Topre Switch Mechanical KeyboardsREALFORCE | Premium Keyboard, PBT, Capacitive Key Switch
Iosevka
Github Dark High Contrast - Visual Studio Marketplace
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6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs
16 augustus 2023 · 54 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about new approved and proposed JavaScript API changes including Promise.withResolvers, .at(), Immutable Array Methods, Array.fromAsync, and more.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
04:55 What are we going to cover?
06:10 Promise.withResolvers
09:40 .at()
You probably knew about JavaScript’s new .at() method for accessing array items. Did you know it works for strings too? Lees meer@IAmAndrewLuca
15:59 Immutable Array Methods
Wes Bos: "🔥 Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3. .toReversed() .toSorted() .toSpliced() - remove items .with() - replace items21:48 Array.fromAsync
Proposal for array.fromAsync27:15 Array Grouping
Proposal for Array grouping31:04 Observable Events?
Observable Events?35:28 Import Attributes
39:21 v.emplace method
41:15 Decorators
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JS Fundamentals - Decorators
14 augustus 2023 · 22 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about whether decorators are finally here, what the uses cases are for decorators, how to define a decorator, and what auto accessor is.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
01:00 Are decorators finally here?
TC39 proposal Lees meerHow this compares to other versions of decorators
06:47 What are use cases for decorators?
10:55 How do you define a decorator?
14:20 Auto Accessor
on classes
@loggged class C {} on fields
class C { @logged x = 1; } Auto Accessor
class C { accessor x = 1; } sugar for below
class C { #x = 1; // # means private get x() { return this.#x; } set x(val) { this.#x = val; } } Can be decorated and decorator can return new get and set and init functions
function logged(value, { kind, name }) { if (kind === "accessor") { let { get, set } = value; return { get() { console.log(`getting ${name}`); return get.call(this); }, set(val) { console.log(`setting ${name} to ${val}`); return set.call(this, val); }, init(initialValue) { console.log(`initializing ${name} with value ${initialValue}`); return initialValue; } }; } // ... } Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s InstagramLevelUpTutorials Instagram
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Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer
11 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Can you have a Vercel like experience on your own AWS? Scott and Wes talk with Brandon Bayer about Flightcontrol - what it is, how to use it on your app, pricing, and more.
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:28 Who is Brandon Bayer?
Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol (@flybayer) / X Lees meerFlightcontrol (@Flightcontrolhq) / X
Blitz.js - The Missing Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js
Flightcontrol — AWS Without Pain
Tailwind Connect 2023 | Tailwind CSS Live Event
03:00 How do you fly?
06:10 What is Flightcontrol?
10:00 Why doesn’t Amazon make it easier?
11:34 Which parts of the AWS stack should I use?
15:08 Creating the infrastructure
19:01 Ongoing deployment
20:05 What languages does Flightcontrol support?
23:35 How are events or cron handled?
25:24 What is Temporal?
Open Source Durable Execution Platform | Temporal Technologies29:05 What are Nixpacks?
GitHub - railwayapp/nixpacks: App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image35:50 How is Flightcontrol priced?
How To Get Free AWS Credits - Flightcontrol44:44 How does Flightcontrol help with scaling?
Serverless Compute Engine – AWS Fargate – AWS46:11 What are your thoughts on ReactJS, Server components?
49:57 Supper Club questions
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Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits
9 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about TypeScript just being fancy duct tape, dealing with back pain while coding, rate limits on cloud services, what to use for email provider, is Firebase a legit platform, and more!
Show Notes 00:11 Welcome
03:11 The Sunday scaries
06:03 Is TypeSctipt just a bunch of fancy Duck Tape?
Is TypeScript saving us? Lees meer12:29 How do you go years into programming without back pain?
Hasty Treat - Stretching For Developers with Scott — Syntax Podcast 29323:51 Why don’t cloud services provide an option to shut off services when a spending limit is reached?
DigitalOcean | Cloud Hosting for BuildersVercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams
28:41 How do you choose a CSS library for any project?
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. | Foundation960 Grid System
38:26 What’s happening to Level Up Tuts?
Level Up Tutorials - Learn modern web developmentWheels - Skateboard Wheels - 60mm Cali Roll - Shark Wheel
43:43 Not a sponsored Yeti spot
45:16 What do you do for email hosting?
Google WorkspaceTechSoup Canada
Proton Mail: Get a private, secure, and encrypted email account
Outlook
Microsoft 365 Plans
Scheduling Software Everyone Will Love · SavvyCal
Synology Photos
50:34 Is Firebase ok to run an app long term with?
Firebase58:57 Am I wrong to not do productive work intensely?
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Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?
7 augustus 2023 · 30 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why Threads, Instagram, and all things Facebook have what seems like really messy HTML and CSS?
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
Scott on Threads Lees meerWes on Threads
00:35 Threads has got divs
02:42 Tight scoping
09:44 Avoids specificity
10:37 Dealing with ad blockers and scraping
15:45 Divs are free, what’s the big deal?
20:19 Facebook is tracking everything
27:57 React NativeShameless Plugs Scott: Sentry
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