In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM.

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• 00:10 Welcome
• 00:51 Sponsor: Sentry
• 02:32 Our experiences with ESM
• 06:54 Why ESM?
• 11:42 Top Level Await
• 16:16 Assert Import type eventually
• Scott’s Vite chunk import map

• Scott: Egg dispenser

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, overflown, and more.

• 00:26 Welcome
• 01:09 Snow skate update
• 03:01 Mixins
• 05:06 Range selector
• 09:36 :first-of-column :last-of:column / row
• Ability to target items in nth-row of autofilled, implicit grid

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more.

• 00:36 Welcome
• 01:05 Buffalo and Canada
• History of Target in Canada

• Ugmonk Analog

• Make VS Code Awesome

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022.

• State of JS 2022

• 00:26 Welcome

• 01:24 Thoughts on the survey in general

• 04:24 Country of origin

• 05:53 Salaries

• 08:14 Higher education

• 08:58 JavaScript features

• 15:41 Browser APIs

• 21:15 Library Usage

• 26:11 Interest in frontend frameworks

• 28:40 Framework usage

• 31:41 Rendering frameworks

• 34:57 Build tools usage over time

• 39:37 Monorepo tools

• Moon

• 46:41 Backend frameworks

• Civet

• 47:42 JavaScript run times

• 51:01 TypeScript JavaScript balance

• 52:17 JavaScript flavors

• 57:03 Resources

• Fireship Dev

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries.

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:46 What are Container Queries?
• Tweet about Container Queries

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions.

• 00:36 Welcome

• 01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity?

• 04:04 What kinds of services use Sanity?

• 06:18 What is a content lake?

• 07:26 Enabling code access to Sanity Studio

• 13:12 Implenting Sanity into a React app

• 14:49 What is GROQ?

• 21:04 Is GraphQL still the best way to query data?

• 25:32 Workflows in Sanity

• 27:48 What is portable text?

• 35:19 How does Sanity work with TypeScript?

• 38:51 Ecommerce options with Sanity

• 41:29 Supper club questions

• 50:33 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Syntax 533 - Zod Schema

• Elden Ring

• Risk of Rain

• Sharp

• Syntax 526 - Supper Club with on TRPC

• Espen bread

• Sanity Syntax code

• Scott’s Instagram

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs software engineer, taking payments, and more.

• 00:11:11 Welcome
• 01:29:11 When should you use article and section in HTML?
• 08:03:08 Does your business suffer from the economic recession?
• 15:47:18 How do you manage your money or budget?
• PlainTextAccounting

• Scott: Bundle of Eucalyptus

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more.

• 00:24 Welcome
• 03:19 Buying vs building topic
• 07:09 Strategy
• 09:50 Escapability
• 14:56 Services You Could Use
• Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, data visualization, and coding for a sustainable focused company.

• 00:34 Welcome
• 01:10 Guest introduction
• Rolling With Kat

• Climavores

• Drinking from the Garden Hose

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness.

• 00:17 Welcome
• 02:38 What’s a cantina?
• 06:33 Scott’s coding goals
• Animated grid layouts

• Scott: The Menu

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials

• Scott’s Instagram