In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes answer your questions on a Potluck episode of Syntax.

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Show Notes

• 02:07 Google Chrome to start measuring user experience beyond the completion of page load
• 05:47 How can I ensure that I am executing npm commands safely?
• 07:58 How should I prefix booleans?
• 09:46 How do I decide between using an enum vs a union type in Typescript
• 13:40 What is Web Assembly?
• 18:34 Sponsor: Sanity
• 19:45 what happened to Scott using Linux?
• PopOS
• 22:44 Sponsor: Linode
• 23:57 How do you batch requests in nodejs to an api?
• 26:15 What are micro-frontends?
• 29:55 Sponsor: Sentry
• 31:16 Since Astro seems so amazing, aren’t you tempted to rebuild your site now in Astro instead of Sveltekit?
• Astro
• 33:04 Can you please shed some light on redirects in express/ koa?
• 36:41 How do deal with ADHD?
• 41:52 Should I repeat the name of the issue in the commit message or just "Resolves #$issue-number"?
• 44:21 Do browsers update automatically?
• 47:52 What do you do when working on a big project?
• 49:55 Can you guys help to breakdown and explain jargons and differences of RPC, REST, gRPC, GraphQL?
• 53:25 How to ask a question
• 53:42 Sick Picks
• 56:17 Shamless plugs

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Satechi 3-in-1 Magnetic Wireless Charging Stand
• Wes: The Always Sunny podcast

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: Astro Course
• Wes: All Courses

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