Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

By Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers

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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

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09.22.2023

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about signs and symptoms of anxiety, what the long term effects are of anxiety, how to know if you need help, and what kinds of ...

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09.22.2023 Anxiety and Uncertainty with Dr. Courtney Tolinski In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about signs and symptoms of anxiety, what the long term effects are of anxiety, how to know if you need help, and what kinds of ...
09.20.2023 Reacting to State of CSS Survey In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott go over some of the results the State of CSS survey for 2023, including drop-shadow, subgrid, logical properties, media range, and more! Show Notes 00:25:21 Welcome 01:31:22 Soccer update 03:52:05 Syntax Brought ...
09.20.2023 The Svelte + SvelteKit Show In this episode of Syntax, Wes reviews his experience building with Svelte and SvelteKit including templating, data fetching, actions, managing state, request handlers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:11 What is Svelte ...
09.18.2023 Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic? In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how you can intercept and debug traffic going out from your computer or other internet connected devices in your home, or your garage! Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:55 Syntax Brought to ...
09.15.2023 Supper Club × How To Get Your First Dev Job With Stuart Bloxham In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Stuart Bloxham about how he learned to code, what his interview process was like when applying for a job, how he found the time to make it all ...
09.13.2023 Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the projects they built during Sentry’s Hackweek: a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor, and a hardware recording button. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:57 What is a hack week? 01:55 Syntax Brought to ...
09.11.2023 CSS Nesting is Here! In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the arrival of CSS nesting. What is CSS nesting? How does CSS nesting work? And does it work in all browsers? Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 02:31 What’s up with CSS nesting? ...
09.08.2023 Supper Club × What's New With Astro with Fred Schott In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less ...
09.06.2023 Potluck × Soft Skills × Release Notes × Headless CMS × Organizing Code × Inet CSS? 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 ...
09.04.2023 JavaScript Closures & Scope Explained In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show ...
09.01.2023 Supper Club × Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Erikson about his work in helping others understand shipping ESM, how to deal with permutations, whether default imports are helpful, whether TypeScript has made it easier, and ...
08.30.2023 Anything but Coding - Landscaping, Fitness, and more! In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show ...
08.28.2023 OG Image Options In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about OG images, interesting ways you can work with them, and ways you can work dynamically with them. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:18 What are OG images? 06:19 Testing OG images Polypane, ...
08.25.2023 Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used ...
08.23.2023 Rust for JS Devs — Part 2 In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott jump into part 2 of their look at Rust for JavaScript developers, including variables in Rust, type systems in Rust, signed and unsigned integers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:43 Audio ...
08.21.2023 8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about 8 tricks to try when using the Fetch() API. Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 02:14 1) Stream The Result // Create a new TextDecoder instance const decoder = new TextDecoder(); // Make ...
08.18.2023 Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:07 What is ...
08.16.2023 6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about new approved and proposed JavaScript API changes including Promise.withResolvers, .at(), Immutable Array Methods, Array.fromAsync, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 04:55 What are we going to cover? 06:10 Promise.withResolvers 09:40 ...
08.14.2023 JS Fundamentals - Decorators In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about whether decorators are finally here, what the uses cases are for decorators, how to define a decorator, and what auto accessor is. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:00 Are decorators finally here? ...
08.11.2023 Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer Can you have a Vercel like experience on your own AWS? Scott and Wes talk with Brandon Bayer about Flightcontrol - what it is, how to use it on your app, pricing, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:28 Who ...
08.09.2023 Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about TypeScript just being fancy duct tape, dealing with back pain while coding, rate limits on cloud services, what to use for email provider, is Firebase a legit ...
08.07.2023 Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess? In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why Threads, Instagram, and all things Facebook have what seems like really messy HTML and CSS? Show Notes 00:10 Welcome Scott on Threads Wes on Threads 00:35 Threads has got ...
08.04.2023 Supper Club × Ryan Florence of Remix In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Florence about Remix, working at Shopify, the history of licensing and pricing, quitting Twitter, the state of React Server components, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Ryan ...
08.02.2023 Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about JavaScript runtimes available to use, what to consider, and packages to use. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:00 Scott’s glasses 03:46 All the runtimes Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime ...
07.31.2023 Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Rust, and how the concepts might translate for JavaScript developers looking to try writing in Rust. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:08 Wes’ big beer bottle and Red Green RedGreenTV on YouTube ...
07.28.2023 Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andris Reinman about his work on all things email - spam, DMARC, SPF, why there’s no good CSS in email, and his current project: Email Engine. Show Notes ...
07.26.2023 Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what polyfills, transpiling, and monkey patching mean, how and when to do it, and libraries that can help you out. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:07 Toast follow up 02:45 What ...
07.24.2023 User Feedback UI - Toasts, Flash, Validation In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about toast messages for validation, errors, confirmations, and more. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:04 Why use these types of notifications 03:34 Old school checking stories 05:35 What kinds of toast messages are ...
07.21.2023 Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jake Champion about his work with Fastly and Polyfill, the difference between WASY and WASM, what Winter CG is, and what makes Fastly different. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome ...
07.19.2023 Potluck × CSS Variables in React × JS Notebooks × Selling a Domain In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about Prisma, CSS variables in React components, JS notebooks, transcribing podcasts, keeping up with dev skills, selling a domain, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:42 Harassed by ...
07.17.2023 Help Me Help You - How To Ask For Help In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to get help for a bug or error you’re getting in someone else’s code. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:54 Building a reproduction of the error 03:55 Creating a gist Gist ...
07.14.2023 Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Krouse about val.town, what it is, his philosophies on teaching people to code, the tech stack for val.town, and the benefits of inspiring kids to learn to ...
07.12.2023 Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with questions about JavaScript, HTTP status error codes, memory safety, and a bit of web history thrown in. Show Notes 00:11:07 Welcome Displaced Gamers 00:46:00 In which ...
07.10.2023 Roundup - Sick AI Tools For Developers In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about various AI tools for developers that are available. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:36 AI creeping into real life 04:03 Cody AI Cody - Business AI Employee Trained on Your Knowledge Base ...
07.07.2023 Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary’s new AI tools, media flow, removing backgrounds, using AI for video templates, and Colby’s stack for creating YouTube content. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:11 ...
07.05.2023 What are Headless Components? In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what headless components are, the why and when to use headless components, and how to best implement them. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 02:33 Tailwind Connect Tailwind Connect 2023 \| Tailwind ...
07.03.2023 Lightning CSS In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects. Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome 01:04:11 Overview of Lightning CSS Lightning CSS Devon Govett (@devongovett) ...
06.30.2023 Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome ...
06.28.2023 WTF is an ORM In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:39 Dental cleanings ...
06.26.2023 Where to Register a Domain In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS ...
06.23.2023 Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau? Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin) Develop and deploy websites and apps in ...
06.21.2023 Potluck × Warp × Skeleton UI × Edge Functions × Donut Scoping In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about rate-limiting an API, using Wasp, Enums in TypeScript, styling React projects, using Edge functions, and more. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:53 Connecting at conferences JSNation – the ...
06.19.2023 AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AsyncLocalStorage, why more frameworks aren’t using it yet, some examples, as well as some footguns. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:44 What is AsyncLocalStorage? 03:14 What is context? 07:49 Why aren’t more ...
06.16.2023 Supper Club × JavaScript on Hardware, Micro Controllers, ESP32 with Nick Hehr In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build involving hardware and software. Show Notes ...
06.14.2023 Electronics for Beginners In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through an introduction to electronics that you can do in your own home with microcontrollers. Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 00:52 What we’re talking about Arduino - Home ESP32 – The best ...
06.12.2023 GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about some of the GitHub features you may not have used very much including projects, milestones, labels, and actions. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:53 That’s sick 04:05 What we’ve used in the ...
06.10.2023 Supper Club × OpenAI, Future of programming, LLMs, and Math with Andrey Mishchenko In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrey Mishchenko about working at OpenAI, getting started in machine learning, what RLHF is, the impact of plugins on ChatGPT, and what the future holds for developers in ...
06.07.2023 Is JSDoc Better than TypeScript? In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott use the fact that Svelte is being converted from TypeScript to JavaScript with JSDoc to talk about the benefits of working that way, why they are doing it, and what you can ...
06.05.2023 Nothing in CSS - 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the nothing in CSS: 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:50 The @ property 03:33 Hiding Things 10:07 Ghost Spaces 17:47 Collapsing margins ...
06.02.2023 Supper Club × Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit on Github Next In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit from GitHub about GitHub Next, Copilot, AI based projects at Github, and what the future is for developers with AI. Show Notes 00:38 ...

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