Talking Tech while Poking Smot

Talking Tech while Poking Smot

By Chad $yntaxTechnology
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Talking Tech while Poking Smot episodes

  • I hate cookie popups and you should too

    Boy, do I hate cookie popups. They are a burden on the user and they don't even do what they promise most of the time. What a shit solution to a horrible problem. I make an analogy here about stickers that I don't think stuck too well, but hey if you come up with a better analogy let me know. Some replacement apis for cookies are in the works, but I'm not holding my breath.


    Here's that study I talked about: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.13985v1.pdf

    We dive into what a "stack" is in all of its definitions, and since that wasn't heavy enough, we do a quick overview of what Infrastructure as Code is (IaC) with terraform. We define what SSR is and why people like it and cap this party off with a question about getting hired as a self-taught dev.

    Email me questions on software engineering: [email protected]

    If you know your stuff and want to come on the show and chat [email protected]


    If you want to collab or sponsor: [email protected]

    32 min
  • Can I be good will hunting?

    In this episode we talk about self-teaching and the importance of learning from others. Learning from college courses and bootcamps are finite, but learning from senior engineers is eternal. We define what a "gotcha" is in the programming world. Spoiler: you want to avoid them. Start ups are laying people off and it is not the end, just a correction in fat, overvalued companies. We also take a moment to dump on crypto a bit and even at the time of recording bitcoin was at 30k and at time of writing this it's at like 20k. Yee hee heesh!

    Then for some reason I go off the rails and recommend severance and ted lasso on apple tv+.


    Email me questions on software engineering: [email protected]

    If you know your stuff and want to come on the show and chat [email protected]


    If you want to collab or sponsor: [email protected]

    28 min

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A sweaty silicon valley engineer talks about software engineering, web development, technology and smoking pot. Chad $yntax is a full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience who rants…