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

muxinc/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 - npm

12:22:20 Styling

Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter

PostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript

16:00:05 Tooling

Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm

18:55:11 Database

Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript

21:11:11 Services

Deepgram

OpenAI

Anthropic \ Introducing Claude

24:34:11 Hosting

Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams

PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale

Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare

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