Best Wes Bos Podcasts (2023)

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JavaScript.exe - Standalone Executables 16:49

28m ago16:49

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript executables - what is it? What’s the benefit of them? And what kind of tooling exists to support them? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:12 What are JavaScript executables? 04:39 Deploying tooling 06:01 Running on a USB stick 07:57 The size 12:19 Fastly The edge cloud platform behind the best of th…

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Supper Club × Bramus Van Damme on CSS 56:28

25m ago56:28

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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 - Linke…

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Potluck × JR Devs & Copilot × CSS Variable Limitations × SvelteKit 58:19

26m ago58:19

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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 y…

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Why Is node_modules So Big? 25:26

10m ago25:26

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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 …

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Supper Club × Adam Argyle on What's New in CSS 55:47

39m ago55:47

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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…

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Where Should You Host Your App? Hosting Providers Compared 1:11:28

16m ago1:11:28

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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…

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WTF Are Signals And Why Is Everyone So Hot On Them All Of The Sudden? 19:05

25m ago19:05

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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…

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Supper Club × Dylan Jhaveri - Video for the Web and MUX 57:03

24m ago57:03

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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…

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UI Elements - Basics, Best Practice, and Built Ins 56:06

19m ago56:06

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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 ele…

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Bluesky + AT Protocol 37:50

16d ago37:50

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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 Bl…

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Supper Club × Zach Lloyd from Warp 59:54

5d ago59:54

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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 Pod…

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The Syntax Giveaway Site - Codes, Bots, Tech Stack and More! 51:37

7d ago51:37

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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 Buildi…

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RPC in JavaScript! 19:24

23d ago19:24

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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 Conside…

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Supper Club × Privacy, Cookie Banners, GDPR with Donata and Hans Skillrud 1:05:05

12d ago1:05:05

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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 Termage…

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Potluck × Crypto × SEO × Status Pages × Learning Tools 1:18:00

14d ago1:18:00

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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 t…

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CSS Color Functions 15:58

16d ago15:58

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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 trea…

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Supper Club × ESLint with Nicholas Zakas 1:08:03

19d ago1:08:03

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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 …

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Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet? 1:06:00

21d ago1:06:00

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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 - Chr…

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Modals, Popups, Popovers, Lightboxes 29:26

23d ago29:26

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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…

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Supper Club × Nate Weinert and Tamagui 52:24

26d ago52:24

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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 worl…

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600th Episode! Major Announcement + SWAG Giveaway! 57:03

28d ago57:03

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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…

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oAuth APIs Explained 22:24

30d ago22:24

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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…

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Supper Club × Fabian Kägy - Modern WordPress - Blocks, Page builders, Headless, Custom Fields 57:25

1M ago57:25

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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) o…

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Stump’d Gameshow! Answering Coding Interview Questions from AI 55:00

1M ago55:00

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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 …

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The New Import Map Standard 28:58

1M ago28:58

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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 bundle…

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Supper Club × Web Components and Lit with Justin Fagnani of Google 58:21

1M ago58:21

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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? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s…

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Potluck × Testing Animations × Tools for Learning × Coding Related Injuries 57:52

1M ago57:52

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s A…

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Coding with the Open AI / Chat GPT API 34:07

1M ago34:07

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platf…

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Supper Club × The Role Of UX Designers In Humanizing The Future with Travis Neilson 59:23

2M ago59:23

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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…

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Potluck × Learning Web Dev × Video Streaming × Mono Repos 52:51

2M ago52:51

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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! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring …

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HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more! 30:18

2M ago30:18

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faste…

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Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad 55:42

2M ago55:42

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors fa…

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New Syntax Website Brainstorm! IRL! 51:48

2M ago51:48

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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! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring p…

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Web Streams Explained 34:28

2M ago34:28

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix…

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Supper Club × Digital Nomad with Eric Sartorius 1:03:01

2M ago1:03:01

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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…

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Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow? 1:05:10

2M ago1:05:10

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry.…

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Node in the Browser × WebContainers + NodeBox 29:02

2M ago29:02

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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? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Se…

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Supper Club × Visual Coding Languages With Steve Sewell 59:28

2M ago59:28

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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…

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AI and Coding with ChatGPT 1:06:03

2M ago1:06:03

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platfor…

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Clean vs Sloppy Code 28:13

2M ago28:13

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers s…

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Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott 58:54

3M ago58:54

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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 Ast…

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Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals 1:06:39

3M ago1:06:39

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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 Co…

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Logging 25:57

3M ago25:57

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps d…

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Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato 1:05:43

3M ago1:05:43

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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 09:1…

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Potluck × Native Web Components × JS Class Mixins × Application Secrets 1:06:56

3M ago1:06:56

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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! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monit…

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Save us from Config File Hell 24:46

3M ago24:46

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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 C…

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Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular 1:07:44

3M ago1:07:44

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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 Q…

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Converting JS to TypeScript 1:12:31

3M ago1:12:31

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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. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring…

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Polish and Perf 21:19

3M ago21:19

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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 …

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Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara 58:16

3M ago58:16

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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 R…

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