In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a 2019 year in review — the most popular Syntax episodes, what they learned, some personal updates, plans for next year, and more!

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Show Notes

1:40 - Plans for 2020

• Syntax Live March 2019
• Plans for 2020
• Twitter has done really well for @syntaxfm

Community feels great

9:20 - Top 10 Syntax episodes of 2019

• Syntax162: The Fundamentals - JS

Syntax120: Gatsby vs Next

Syntax158: The Fundamentals - HTML + CSS

Syntax126: Bootcamps vs School vs Self-Learning

Syntax138: What’s New in Web Development

Syntax130: The VueJS Show (Scott teaches Wes)

Syntax146: CSS the Cool Parts

Syntax174: How to Build an API

Syntax154: SVGs with Sara Soueidan

Syntax106: A Look Forward to 2019

25:17 - Personal stuff

• Scott

  • Brooklyn Tolinksi
  • 2019 was really tough for me
  • Level Up courses for 12 months
  • Huge changes to my production values and office
  • Huge changes to LUT codebase (React hooks, Typescript, Next.js, Mongoose)

• Wes

  • New Baby in June / 3 months Paternity Leave
  • Bought a cottage
  • Hardest course to make was Beginner JS — it was a slog, hard to stay motivated at times, with 80 hours of recording alone
  • Course Platform re-write (Next.js)

39:17 - Stuff we learned

• Scott

  • Better speaker
  • Lots of TypeScript
  • Better debugging
  • Hooks
  • Svelte
  • General improvement in JS writing and programming skills

• Wes

  • Really good at Vanilla.js DOM API
  • React Hooks
  • Suspense
  • Audio Visualization
  • Shape Detection API - Faces, Barcodes, Text
  • Headless CMS: Prismic, Sanity, WordPress GraphQL, Keystone.js, Hasura
  • Very good understanding of the nitty gritty of JS (closures, objects, this, new keyword, classes, etc.)

Links

• Reactathon

freeCodeCamp Podcast

CSS Houdini

Syntax109: Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid

Syntax092: React Hooks

Dev Mugs

TypeScript

Svelte

Prismic

Sanity

WPGraphQL

Keystone.js

Hasura

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: The Dream Podcast

Wes: Synology DiskStation DS918+

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: React & TypeScript For Everyone - Sign up for the year and save 25%!
• Wes: Beginner Javascript - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off!

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