Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Scott and Wes unpack their experiences as electric car owners, sharing the highs and lows of making the switch. From range anxiety to charging infrastructure and cost savings, they talk about everything from the tech perks to the unexpected challenges of driving electric.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 02:11 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 03:14 What cars and how long have we had them.
  • Hyundai IONIQ 5.
  • Tesla Model Y Long Range.
• 10:41 Range and dealing with range anxiety.
• 11:45 The EPA specs.
• 12:24 Things that affect range.
• 14:46 Charging.
• 17:52 Charging levels.
  • 17:56 Level 1 charging.
  • 19:01 Level 2 charging.
  • 19:39 Level 3 charging.
  • 20:10 Charging standards.
• 21:51 Electric car pricing.
• 25:56 Regenerative braking.
• 27:27 General maintenance.
• 29:04 Pricing and expenses.
• 31:48 Machine Gun Kelly Effect.
• 36:46 Would you go completely electric?
• 38:46 Electric-only tech.
• 40:57 Buying a new EV.
• 42:21 Edison Motors website, TikTok.

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Scott and Wes talk with Taylor Desseyn about the shifting developer job market. Taylor shares practical tips for standing out, building genuine connections, and finding opportunities in a competitive hiring landscape.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:38 Meet Taylor Desseyn
• 03:51 Is the dev job market as bad as it seems?
• 06:47 How to stand out when applying for a dev job?
• 11:03 Who is getting hired?
• 14:16 What tech/languages are companies hiring for right now?
• 16:37 Is there less work?
• 20:10 The small things that get you hired
• 24:19 What to do when you get laid off
• 27:42 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 28:07 How to make yourself more appealing to employers
• 32:39 Networking tips and tricks
• 39:01 Remote work and office return trends
• 40:58 Why you should negotiate carefully
• 43:38 What’s the most important thing right now for getting hired?
• 45:48 Should devs understand stakeholders and business goals?
• 46:42 Creating a good resume
• 52:00 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

• Taylor: heydey mic
• Randy Rektor’s YouTube Channel

• Taylor:
  • Torc
  • Guidance Counselor 2.0

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Scott and Wes serve up listener questions on everything from SvelteKit’s limits and the quirks of branded types in TypeScript to handling email queues and secure token storage in cookies. Plus, they get into app security, the evolution of checkout flows, and why QA teams can actually be game-changers for dev teams.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:50 Catching up.
• 01:52 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 02:56 What are the limitations of SvelteKit?
• 06:41 Svelte 5 updates.
• 07:53 Branded types in TypeScript.
  • EggHead.io Blog.
• 11:56 Queue applications and a ‘poor man’s queue’.
• 17:20 The real value of a functional QA team.
• 21:34 Invoker commands.
  • Invokers Explained.
  • Denver Script Talk.
• 26:29 Growing security and permissions concerns.
  • Little Snitch.
• 33:03 Stripe vs PayPal in 2024.
• 38:24 Christmas gift guide.
• 38:39 Websockets vs streams vs polling.
• 41:04 Storing access and refresh tokens in a cookie.
• 45:41 Shipping with TypeScript errors.
• 49:34 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

• Scott: The Black Stuff Deodorant.
• Wes: Apple Watch Charging Brick.

• Scott: Syntax on YouTube.

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Scott and Wes react to the big GitHub Universe announcements, recorded live at GitHub Universe. They dive into Copilot’s new features, exploring how its advancements stack up against Cursor AI in the battle for the ultimate AI-driven developer tool.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:12 Our Syntax Meetup.
• 02:54 AI is everywhere.
• 03:22 Sherlocking and jockeying for position.
• 04:49 GitHub Copilot introduces alternative LLMs.
  • GitHub Copilot
• 06:31 New tools are build upon existing LLMs.
• 09:14 VSCode reclaiming ground from Cursor.
  • Cursor
• 10:31 The new features.
  • 10:34 Multi-file editing.
  • 10:54 Use-cases for multi-file editing.
  • 12:58 Multi-model selection.
  • 13:05 Repo indexing.
  • 13:50 Copilot instructions.
  • 14:34 Examples of Cursor rules.
  • 16:39 No mention of multiple-line suggestions.
  • 18:02 Multi-file edit?
  • 20:26 Code review.
  • 22:36 GitHub Pull Requests plugin.
  • 24:34 Investing in AI ‘big bets’.
  • 26:29 Scott’s mysterious YouTube unreleased feature.
  • 27:11 3-minute YouTube shorts.
    • Wes’ TikTok.
  • 28:29 GitHub Marketplace.
  • 32:18 Copilot Workspace.
  • 34:53 Copilot Workspace features yet to come.
  • 36:25 GitHub Spark.
    • Bolt.new.
• 42:44 Final thoughts on Copilot vs Cursor.
• 44:03 What products do you think are in trouble?
• 50:26 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.

• Scott: Waymo.
• Wes: Waymo.

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Scott and Wes talk with Andrea Giammarchi (aka WebReflection) about his projects, including LinkDOM and PyScript, and the exciting future of running Python in the browser via WebAssembly.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:04 Andrea’s background and early work
  • LinkDOM
• 07:25 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 09:56 Pyscript
• 14:31 Why run Python in the browser?
• 20:17 Using WebAssembly to run different languages in JS
• 23:33 The advantages of WebAssembly
• 25:55 What excites Andrea about WASM
  • Proposal: ESX as core JS feature
• 31:10 What is WASI?
• 32:21 Andrea’s experience with IOT and microcontrollers
• 35:35 How can the JS ecosystem be improved?
• 38:07 Should we have reactivity in the browser?
  • Signals
• 41:06 Andrea’s thoughts on server-side APIs
• 43:43 Andrea’s thoughts on TypeScript
• 49:13 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

• Andrea: ESP32

• Andrea: Andrea’s X / Twitter

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Scott and Wes continue to share hair-raising developer horror stories submitted by listeners. From accidentally severing access to crucial databases to a limitless coupon code that cost millions, these tales will have you on the edge of your seat. Tune in for more wild mishaps, close calls, and hard-learned lessons from the dark side of coding. You won’t want to miss this second round of spooky web dev stories!

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 01:32 ‘Monkey Business’
• 03:21 ‘Spooky Integration Bug’
• 06:25 ‘Worst Case Wake Up’
• 08:57 ‘Severed Trunk and Missing Backups’
• 11:21 ‘Brute Force Too Brutal’
• 12:30 ‘A Dorm Room Bee Movie’
• 15:46 ‘No Goats’
• 16:45 ‘Pokémon Problems’
• 18:08 ‘Late Night’
• 22:21 ‘Bootcamp Bungle’
• 26:19 ‘Film School F*** Up’
• 30:26 ‘AWS Clusterf***’
• 31:26 ‘Limitless Coupon Disaster’
  • Episode #451, Episode #609.
• 33:55 ‘Ruined Vacation’
• 35:47 ‘Console.swear’
• 37:28 ‘Another Coupon Disaster’
• 40:46 ‘The Doctor’
  • Wes’ Burner List.
• 43:01 ‘Marketing Nightmare’
• 45:10 What did we learn this year?
  • 45:12 You need processes.
  • 48:42 Ask for help.
  • 49:44 Dry-run queries + soft delete.
  • 51:14 Code reviews.
    • Episode #830.
  • 52:11 Version control.
• 53:58 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

• Scott: Nobody Wants This.
• Wes: Truffle Hot Sauce.

• Scott: syntax.fm.
• Wes: syntax.fm/spooky.

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Scott and Wes unpack the spookiest web dev stories submitted by listeners in this episode. From forgotten MX records to infinite loops, these real-life coding horrors will have you double-checking your WHERE clauses and git backups.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:39 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 00:48 What is Spooky Stories?
  • Submit a story.
• 02:45 ‘Needs a Coffee’
• 04:43 ‘Deleting Github’
  • Defunkt X Post.
• 07:42 ‘Rejected’
• 09:08 ‘Infinite Loop’
• 09:26 ‘MySqueeel Horror’
• 11:02 ‘Pet Company’
• 12:09 ‘Git Corrupted’
• 12:57 ‘Circular Horror’
• 14:25 ‘The Haunting of the Forgotten MX Records’

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Scott and Wes talk with Søren Bramer Schmidt, Founder and CEO of Prisma, about database best practices, including the latest developments in serverless, local-first, and typed SQL solutions.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 02:55 Søren’s thoughts on GraphQL
• 03:53 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 06:57 Common database mistakes
• 08:52 Prisma’s stability and user experience
• 10:42 Typed SQL and advanced querying
  • Announcing TypedSQL: Make your raw SQL queries type-safe with Prisma ORM
  • Prisma Optimize
• 20:47 Serverless challenges and solutions
  • Prisma Accelerate
• 27:11 Cloudflare’s potential to dethrone AWS
• 29:13 Prisma and local-first development
  • Prisma & Expo: A Better Path to Local-First Apps | App.js Conf 2024
• 35:30 Making local-first development mainstream
• 40:10 Challenges with async
• 42:43 Søren’s thoughts on Drizzle
• 43:41 Søren’s favorite database
• 47:21 The read your writes problem
• 48:58 Prisma hosted Postgres
• 51:44 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

• Søren: Cursor

• Søren:
  • 1: Prisma Optimize
  • 2: Prisma Postgres (coming soon)

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Get your productivity game on point! Scott and Wes serve up the best tools for web developers, covering everything from password managers and to-do apps to mind-mapping tools and little scripts that make life easier. Plus, find out what snippet managers they swear by and how they keep their email under control.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 03:01 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 03:44 Syntax meetup San Francisco.
• 04:26 Breakdancing update.
  • Kid Cruz Instagram.
• 05:18 Password management.
  • 1Password.
• 08:30 Apple stomping on apps.
• 09:50 To-do applications.
  • Things.
  • Getting Things Done.
  • Tweek.
• 18:18 To-do in code.
  • Todo Tree.
  • Better Comments.
• 20:21 Snippets.
• 25:55 Mind-mapping.
  • MindNode.
  • FigJam.
• 29:01 Note-taking.
  • Obsidian.
  • Stashpad.
  • ObservableHQ.
  • Jupyter.
• 36:34 Little scripts.
  • Script Kit.
• 39:50 Email.
  • Superhuman.
• 48:11 Some honorable mentions.
  • Habitpath.io.
  • Focus.
• 52:10 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

• Scott: The Legend of SwordQuest.
• Wes: The Economics of Everyday Things.

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CJ joins Scott and Wes to dive into why he’s all-in on Hono, a fast and lightweight web framework for every JavaScript runtime. From familiar route creation to type-safe middleware, find out how Hono keeps things simple, powerful, and ready to use inside Next.js.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:46 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 01:11 What is Hono?
  • Watch CJ’s Video Here
• 03:21 Syntax Meetup San Francisco.
• 04:02 Why I like Hono, and why you should try it.
• 04:08 Familiar route creation.
  • Connect: an extensible HTTP server framework for node.
• 05:45 Supports every JS Runtime.
• 07:00 How a service worker works.
• 08:48 Helpers.
• 09:16 Middleware.
• 10:40 Sentry middleware.
• 10:55 JSX support.
• 13:21 Organizing route handlers while keeping Types.
• 14:24 Type safety.
  • hono-open-api-starter.
  • zod-openapi.
• 15:46 Defining base type.
  • Pinojs
• 17:36 Validation.
• 18:52 Hono RPC client.
• 22:09 Hono inside of Next.js.
• 23:30 Testing.
• 25:22 The community.
• 27:34 Type support.

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