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How to Level Up Your Web Development Career
Scott and Wes discuss tips for becoming a better developer, getting a better job, and improving your life.
#career#productivity
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UI Components: ShadCN, Tailwind UI, Headless, React Aria, Radix UI
This episode covers different categories of UI component libraries for building web apps, from low-level headless utilities to full featured design systems. Key factors in choosing a UI library are functionality, accessibility, styling, and ability to adapt the components.
#webdev#javascript#UI
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Fitness Will Make You a Better Developer
Wes and Scott discuss fitness tips for developers including getting started with working out, having a home gym, diet, motivation, supplements and more.
#fitness#exercise#health
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Modern JS Toolchains (Biome, Oxc + More)
The hosts discuss trends in modern JavaScript tooling including performance gains from writing tools in Rust and Go. They overview established tools like ESLint and Prettier as well as new tools like Biome, Oxc, ESBuild, and Rollup.
#tooling#performance#rust#eslint
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Potluck: Migrating to Typescript, Semver Explained, Accurate Timers and Countdowns
Potluck episode covering various web dev topics like TypeScript migration approaches, home office recommendations, semantic versioning basics, and preferred books/podcasts
#typescript#react#webdev#office
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The LoFi Movement: Building Local First Apps
This episode covers the concept of local first web development, where apps work offline first and then sync data in the background. The ideals, principles, tools, and sample projects around this concept are explored.
#local-first#offline#pwa
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CJ Reynolds is Joining Syntax
CJ Reynolds joins the Syntax podcast and shares his background in development, live coding, teaching, and more. They discuss his career path, interest in trying new technologies, approach to teaching and live coding, and some non-coding hobbies and interests.
#CJ Reynolds#Teaching#Live Coding
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Egress, scraping, Safari EU changes, is SetInterval worth it?
In this JavaScript and web development podcast episode, Scott and Wes discuss Sentry debugging, changes to iOS browsers, scroll and cursor event interception, accurate timers with setInterval, Chrome extension changes, and inconsistencies with JavaScript's Date API.
#Debugging#Mobile#JavaScript
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Own your own PaaS
Discussion on options for self-hosting a platform as a service to avoid expensive monthly per user charges from hosted providers.
#PaaS#Self-Hosting#Kubernetes
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How to Code: Opinionated TypeScript Stack + Tooling Choices Explained
Overview of main web development technologies by category with opinions on best options for beginners
#beginners#JavaScript#webdev#tutorial
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Potluck: Is Virtual Dom Bad?
Scott and Wes discuss their weekends, advertisers, new staff, and take listener questions on JS libraries, in app browsers, and generators.
#AlpineJS#HTMX#WebViews#Generators
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You should learn Drizzle, the TypeScript SQL ORM
Podcast explaining the Drizzle ORM for interacting with databases like MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
#javascript#webdev#databases
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React Server Components
In-depth discussion on new React server components feature including server-side rendering, async data fetching, forms, suspense and more.
#react#javascript#webdev
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Google & MS Duopoly, Frontend to Fullstack, Where to Put Business Logic + more(Potluck)
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions about web development tools, strategies, and concepts.
#javascript#webdev#programming
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2024 Predictions
In this 2024 web development predictions episode, Scott and Wes make bold guesses about what will happen in JavaScript, frameworks, tooling, CSS, browsers, AI, and more over the next year.
#javascript#webdev#predictions
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Potluck × Naming Tech × Generators × Layers Follow Up × Sick Picks Page
In this holiday potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions around topics like advanced JavaScript techniques, React, CSS layers, designing databases, and specializing as a front-end engineer.
#javascript#react#css
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What happened in JS, CSS And Web Dev in 2023? 2023 Predictions Results!
Wes and Scott review their 2023 web development predictions from the previous year, assessing what trends and technologies ended up being hits or misses.
#webdev#javascript#predictions
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Stump'd JS + CSS Interview Questions
Wes and Scott ask each other tricky web development interview questions covering topics like CSS layout, JavaScript, accessibility, and more.
#css#javascript#interview
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New + Proposed JS APIs for 2024
Covers new and proposed JavaScript APIs for 2024 including source maps, temporal, array methods and more.
#javascript#webdev#apis
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Potluck × TypeScript's Longevity × Canvas-Rendered Apps × Learning Rust × Executing Untrusted JS Code
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer listener questions on various web dev topics including TypeScript's future, Flutter for web, WordPress workflows, Rust projects, MongoDB for AI search, and more.
#javascript#webdev#programming
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How to Build a Website or App
This podcast episode covers a wide range of topics related to building a website or web application from start to finish.
#website#development#tutorial
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Lessons Learned & Bugs Fixed from Launching Syntax.fm
Scott and Wes discuss launching the new Syntax.fm site, including database timeouts from too much data, the importance of error monitoring, dark mode UI bugs, using AI for show notes, managing background jobs with serverless, launching with TypeScript errors, having fast local development, being mindful of payload sizes, taking advantage of new browser APIs, and how Wes helped improve the overall design.
#JavaScript#Podcasting
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How To Dark Mode and Beyond
Scott and Wes discuss how to implement dark mode and theming in web development, including topics like using color variables, overriding system preferences, solving contrast issues, theming components, and more.
#dark mode#theming
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Hosting NextJS × Spicy Sidedishes × Modern Forms × Abandoning TypeScript
The guys answer your questions about hosting options for Next.js apps, share some spicy takes about Firefox and CSS, lament the lack of good form options for modern web apps, and clarify some confusion around SvelteKit and Turborepo abandoning TypeScript.
#nextjs#forms#css#typescript
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Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2
Web development horror stories about bugs, mistakes, and disasters
#coding#mistakes#horror stories
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What's New in AI for Web Developers
Wes and Scott discuss new advancements in AI tools and services for developers, including vzero.dev from Vercel to generate React UI, Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and new AI services from Cloudflare Workers.
#ai#tools#services
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The 2023 State of CSS Survey Part 2 × CSS Frameworks × Tooling × Browser Usage
Discussion of the 2023 State of CSS survey results covering frameworks, tools, features, pain points and more.
#css#webdev#frontend
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Potluck × Bun Thoughts × Guesting on Syntax × Why Rust?
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer audience questions on web development topics like Bun JS, REST vs GraphQL APIs, learning Rust, documenting code, WordPress APIs, becoming a podcast guest, and using home gym equipment.
#APIs#Documentation#JavaScript
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Reacting to State of CSS Survey
Wes and Scott discuss the State of CSS developer survey results, covering usage of new CSS features like subgrid, aspect ratio, relative colors, variable fonts, accessibility preferences, and more.
#CSS#Podcast
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The Svelte + SvelteKit Show
Wes and Scott discuss their experiences building apps with Svelte and SvelteKit. They cover templating, data fetching, state management, actions, layouts, styling and more.
#Svelte#JavaScript
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Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button
Scott and Wes discuss the projects they built during a hack week at Sentry, including a real-time markdown editor and an automated recording button.
#hackweek#automation#markdown#productivity
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Potluck × Soft Skills × Release Notes × Headless CMS × Organizing Code × Inet CSS?
In this episode Scott and Wes answer developer questions on various web development topics like TypeScript, performance, CMS, and more. They also discuss personal topics like dog DNA tests and how they organize their code.
#typescript#performance#cms
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Anything but Coding - Landscaping, Fitness, and more!
Scott and Wes catch up on life outside of coding including concerts, home projects, fitness goals, and more. They also recommend a steam cleaner and a sci-fi kids book.
#Fitness#Pop Culture
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Rust for JS Devs — Part 2
In part 2 of Rust for JavaScript developers, Scott and Wes dive deeper into Rust's type system, talking about integer types, strings, string slices, arrays, tuples, and other collection types. They also cover defining structs, adding methods, and other fundamentals.
#Rust#JavaScript
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6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs
Overview of 6 new approved and proposed JavaScript APIs in various stages - ranging from shipped to just proposed. Covers Promise resolvers, immutable arrays, array grouping, observable events, import assertions, Map.emplace(), decorators and pattern matching.
#JavaScript#APIs#WebDev
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Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about TypeScript, preventing back pain while programming, and options for limiting cloud service costs.
#TypeScript#Posture#Cloud Services
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Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More
Overview of standard APIs for JavaScript that work across server side runtimes like Node, Deno and Cloudflare workers.
#serverless#nodejs#javascript
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Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching
Wes and Scott discuss polyfilling, transpiling, and monkey patching - what they are, when to use each, and tools that can help.
#javascript#webdev#polyfill#transpile
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Potluck × CSS Variables in React × JS Notebooks × Selling a Domain
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like React and CSS, JavaScript notebooks, selling domains, balancing learning as a new parent, and more.
#css#react#javascript#domains
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Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History
Scott and Wes use AI to generate challenging interview questions and quiz each other on web development topics ranging from JavaScript to CSS history.
#JavaScript