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Syntax Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday gift guide with favorite picks across multiple categories like games, clothing, desk items, and more.
#gift-guide #holiday #presents
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TypeScript, Branded Types, Streaming vs Polling + More
Scott and Wes answer audience questions about web development tools and techniques
#typescript #performance #auth
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Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories - PART 2
Web developers share horror stories of production mishaps like deleting databases, breaking sites, and more.
#horror #failures #accidents
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Productivity Tools for Web Developers
Scott and Wes discuss the productivity tools and techniques they use for password management, to-do lists, snippets, mind mapping, note taking, writing scripts, email, habit tracking, and more.
#productivity #tools #tips
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How to Pick a JavaScript Framework
Discussion on key things to consider when evaluating a JavaScript framework to use
#JavaScript
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Potluck: When to Use a Framework × Goodbye Webpack × Custom Events in React + More!
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions on topics ranging from transitioning jobs and frameworks to game development platforms and handling user feedback.
#Career #React #Feedback
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14 Web Development Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner
Scott and Wes share 13 web development tips they wish they knew earlier in their careers relating to skills, tools, learning approaches and career growth.
#Career #Beginner #Tips
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You Need These 30 Apps - PART 2
Scott and Wes discuss their favorite Mac apps including utilities, screenshots, developers tools and more.
#mac #apps #developers #utility
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Is Cursor AI the VS Code Killer?
Wes and Scott discuss Cursor, a new AI-powered code editor and assistant. They are impressed by its capabilities compared to GitHub Copilot, including better completions, UI improvements, multi-file edits, and custom docs for context.
#ai #productivity #tools
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Potluck: 8000 ESLint Errors × HTML Time Tag × 7 Meg React Bundle × CSS Modules
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer questions from listeners on topics like handling hybrid video/audio podcast episodes, why frameworks like Redwood JS aren't more popular, recommendations for dealing with distractions when working from home, whether CSS modules are a good idea for React, if developers still use the time tag in HTML, how to analyze bundle sizes in Webpack, getting maps to work offline, and much more.
#podcasting #javascript #productivity #css
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You Need These 30 Apps - PART 1
Scott and Wes go through a big list of apps they use for productivity. This episode covers files, media, utilities, screenshots and more.
#productivity #utilities #mac #windows
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Fundamentals: HTML
Podcast episode explaining the fundamentals of HTML including the importance of semantic markup, document structure, forms, rich media elements, and more.
#html #webdev #beginner
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NodeJS Evolves
Discussion on new Node.js features aligned with web standards and industry norms, including native TypeScript support, SQLite integration, dotenv support, and more.
#node #javascript #typescript #webdev
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The Future of JavaScript Frameworks × Building Auth × DB Design Tips, and more!
In this episode, Scott and Wes answer questions from listeners on topics like predicting the future of JavaScript frameworks, using local development proxies, building your own authentication system, designing relational databases, and more.
#JavaScript #WebDev #Programming
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We React to State of React Survey
Scott and Wes discuss the State of React 2023 developer survey results, including React API and framework usage, trends, pain points and more.
#react #webdev #javascript
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Tree Shaking × useMemo vs useCallback × JavaScript Event Loop - STUMP'd
Scott and Wes ask each other interview questions to stump one another and teach web development concepts.
#JavaScript #React #WebDevelopment
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Hot New and Under-Utilized Browser APIs
Scott discusses new and underutilized browser APIs for building interfaces including starting style, allow discrete, calc size, scroll snap, view transitions, popover, dialog and more.
#animation #ui #browser
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Do We Need JS Frameworks × Are You Over-Engineering? × Webview vs Native
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions about over-engineering, generative AI, frameworks, meetups, and more.
#Frameworks #Meetups
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The Local First Landscape
Discussion of various tools and libraries for building local first web applications
#local-first #offline #speed
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State of JS 2023 Reactions
Wes and Scott discuss the 2023 State of JS survey results and developer trends
#javascript #webdev #StateOfJS
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You Should Try Vue.js
Vue.js is a full-featured, beginner-friendly front end framework with HTML-like syntax, built-in state management, and Nuxt.js for full-stack web apps.
#vuejs #front-end #frameworks
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Logging × Blogging × Testing × Freelancing
Wes and Scott answer audience questions about logging, blogging, testing, freelancing, carbon footprint tools, having kids, murder mystery podcasts, and pressure washers.
#logging #testing #parenting #podcasts
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Potluck - The Value of TypeScript × Vue vs Svelte × Leetcode
In this potluck episode, Scott and CJ discuss TypeScript complexity, Svelte vs Vue, internationalization, the future of React, Astro vs SvelteKit, learning C# or Rust alongside JS/TS, finishing projects, and scoping project quality based on timeline and team size.
#TypeScript #Frameworks #i18n #React
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11 Habits of Highly Effective Developers
Wes and Scott discuss 11 habits that can help developers become more effective, covering topics like understanding business goals, continuous learning, having an open mindset, asking for help, helping others, enjoying development, maintaining balance, showing empathy, attention to detail, and being part of the developer community.
#Career #Skills #Effectiveness
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Components We Need on Every Project
Scott and Wes discuss common components they use across projects such as navigation, headers, toasts, auth forms, admin tables, markdown renderers, icon components, and more.
#JavaScript #UI/UX
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React Server Components with PHP, Selling Accessibility, WTF is Cloudflare + more
Potluck episode answering submitted questions on various web dev topics
#javascript #webdev #beginner
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React Miami Live Show
The React Miami live podcast episode features special live segments like map/filter/reduce code challenges, JS or NAS audience voting games, and opportunities for the audience to participate.
#react #javascript #live-podcast
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React Server Components: Form Actions + Server Actions
Discussion on using actions and form actions in React Server Components for calling server code from the client side without needing a separate API
#react #forms
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Web Scraping + Reverse Engineering APIs
Covers techniques for web scraping, dealing with private APIs, handling authentication, parsing HTML, and challenges like captchas.
#web-scraping #apis
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Pro VSCode Setups
Scott and Wes detail their Visual Studio Code setups, extensions, themes, fonts, shortcuts and other preferences.
#VSCode #Productivity
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Potluck: Is Gatsby Dead? Shadow Dom, AI Summaries, Self Hosting + More
Topics covered include Shadow DOM vs light DOM, web scraping techniques, local first development, speeding up UI development with component libraries, affordable self-hosting options, syncing offline data, and using AI to summarize audio content.
#web-components #web-scraping #local-first #ui-development
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How to Level Up Your Web Development Career
Scott and Wes discuss tips for becoming a better developer, getting a better job, and improving your life.
#career #productivity
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UI Components: ShadCN, Tailwind UI, Headless, React Aria, Radix UI
This episode covers different categories of UI component libraries for building web apps, from low-level headless utilities to full featured design systems. Key factors in choosing a UI library are functionality, accessibility, styling, and ability to adapt the components.
#webdev #javascript #UI
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Fitness Will Make You a Better Developer
Wes and Scott discuss fitness tips for developers including getting started with working out, having a home gym, diet, motivation, supplements and more.
#fitness #exercise #health
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Modern JS Toolchains (Biome, Oxc + More)
The hosts discuss trends in modern JavaScript tooling including performance gains from writing tools in Rust and Go. They overview established tools like ESLint and Prettier as well as new tools like Biome, Oxc, ESBuild, and Rollup.
#tooling #performance #rust #eslint
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Potluck: Migrating to Typescript, Semver Explained, Accurate Timers and Countdowns
Potluck episode covering various web dev topics like TypeScript migration approaches, home office recommendations, semantic versioning basics, and preferred books/podcasts
#typescript #react #webdev #office
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The LoFi Movement: Building Local First Apps
This episode covers the concept of local first web development, where apps work offline first and then sync data in the background. The ideals, principles, tools, and sample projects around this concept are explored.
#local-first #offline #pwa
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CJ Reynolds is Joining Syntax
CJ Reynolds joins the Syntax podcast and shares his background in development, live coding, teaching, and more. They discuss his career path, interest in trying new technologies, approach to teaching and live coding, and some non-coding hobbies and interests.
#CJ Reynolds #Teaching #Live Coding
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Egress, scraping, Safari EU changes, is SetInterval worth it?
In this JavaScript and web development podcast episode, Scott and Wes discuss Sentry debugging, changes to iOS browsers, scroll and cursor event interception, accurate timers with setInterval, Chrome extension changes, and inconsistencies with JavaScript's Date API.
#Debugging #Mobile #JavaScript
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Own your own PaaS
Discussion on options for self-hosting a platform as a service to avoid expensive monthly per user charges from hosted providers.
#PaaS #Self-Hosting #Kubernetes