In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning soft skills, using release notes, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, what inet is, better ways to use ChatGPT, and more!

Show Notes

• 00:11 Welcome
• 01:42 Scott’s butt pincher
• Affenpinscher

06:08 You keep missing my favorite thing about Civet

Civet

07:31 What soft skills can I learn to help me in my career?

HTML, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

12:42 Have you thought about release notes or a what’s new section?

Conventional Commits

How to generate Changelog using Conventional Commits | by Riccardo Canella | Jobtome Engineering | Medium

15:57 Can you explain headless CMS and what the use-cases/implementations are?

19:24 Any suggestions for dealing with web components and the client’s tracking scripts

How to Read Flamegraphs 🔥

Chromium F12 Profiler: The Main Thread Pane

Agent Creation has a large CPU time · Issue #915 · bluesky-social/atproto

25:27 Why do we need .d.ts files in TypeScript?

30:15 What is inset in CSS?

inset - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

35:06 Is there a way to use AI/chat gpt to more quickly and easily understand technical documentation?

Anthropic \ Home

Getting Started 🚀 Astro Documentation

ChatGPT Plugin - AskTheCode | GPTStore.ai

ChatGPT Plugin - Scraper | GPTStore.ai

Overview | TanStack Query Docs

Custom instructions for ChatGPT

40:59 why is the following true: the string “undefined”.includes(undefined)?

43:27 How do you organize your code directories?

48:50 Is there any good reason in 2023 why we should still be loading JS files with all our script tags at the bottom of the body element?

54:32 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Surge power bar

Wes: Little Hippo Alarm

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: Sentry

Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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