In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about headless WordPress, Regex, their health and fitness, CSS custom properties in media queries, and more.

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Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome
• 03:30 If I host a NextJS app on Digital Ocean, should I use a Digital Ocean database?
• 09:14 Will either of you ever do a regex course?
• Regex101

13:58 Is it possible to use the WordPress users database as the same database that the app uses?

WPGraphQL

18:46 Sponsor: Sentry

19:43 How is health and fitness going for the both of you?

26:08 Does Wes know who Gendo Ikari is?

27:36 Dart popularity follow up

29:40 Is it vital that I should learn another programming language?

33:42 Sponsor: Sanity

34:54 If I’m trying to get my first job in web development, do I need to be familiar with design software?

Figma

40:01 Thank you for the confidence to apply for a web dev job

Syntax 463 with Tom Preston-Werner

41:55 What advice will you give in terms of setting up core important things around network, state management, folder structure?

45:37 .TECH Domain Names

46:22 I just had an interview with a “major tech company” and your article on using string templates was really helpful.

Template Strings

48:43 If 80% of the time ew need to use preventDefault on form submission, why don’t the simply change the HTML spec?

50:01 What’s the rationale for not supporting CSS custom properties in media queries when using max/min width?

CSS Env

MDN CSS Env

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