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Talking EVs: Range Anxiety, Charging, and Tech
Wes Boss and Scott Tolinski have a casual conversation sharing their real-world experiences of owning and driving electric vehicles.
#ev-ownership #charging
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Copilot Kills Cursor? Reacting to Github Universe Keynote
Scott and Wes discuss GitHub's AI announcements from GitHub Universe conference, including Copilot updates to match Cursor features, new AI marketplace, workspace improvements and text-to-code generator Spark.
#ai #github #conference
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Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories - PART 1
Scott and Wes read community submitted horror stories about web development mistakes.
#webdev #horror #mistakes
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You Should Drop Express and Try Hono
CJ talks about Hono, a modern JavaScript framework for building web APIs, showing why you should use it over Express. He covers Hono's familiar Express-like API, wide platform support, built-in helpers, JSX support, routing, validation, RPC client, testing, and more.
#honojs #express #apis #nodejs
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AI Will Improve Your Web Development Workflow
How to effectively utilize AI tools like Copilot and Claude to improve workflows for web developers
#ai #webdev #workflow
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Preventing Spam and Fraud
Wes and Scott discuss various techniques to prevent spam and fraud when developing web apps, including CAPTCHAs, third-party verification services, rate limiting, and manual review.
#Spam Blocking #Web Security
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Logging in Verification: Magic Links, 2FA, SMS Codes
Discussion on different login and user verification methods like magic links, OAuth, codes, trusted devices, etc.
#authentication #login #security
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Syntax Assistant Desktop App
Scott and Wes discuss a Hack Week project where they built a desktop app to automate the Syntax podcast publishing workflow using Svelte, Rust and other technologies.
#Svelte #Rust #Podcasting
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Receipt Printer with JavaScript
Wes explains how he built a receipt printer with JS during Hack Week at Sentry, including connecting it, encoding printer commands, taking screenshots to print complex layouts when alerts come in from Sentry.
#javascript #hardware #hackweek
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Fun & Profitable Side Projects for Developers
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss side projects - where developers get ideas, setting goals, choosing technology stacks, keeping notes, and actually finishing.
#javascript #node #tooling
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Why Your CSS Sucks
Discussion on reasons why CSS code can be difficult to work with and maintain over time
#CSS #webdevelopment #frontend
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CSS: Scroll Driven Animations
Introduction to capabilities of scroll driven animations to create interactive effects based on scroll position by scrubbing existing CSS animations and keyframes over a scroll timeline instead of time.
#css #animations #scrolling
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Effortless Light and Dark Mode × Theme Styling
Discussion on using CSS theming properties like color scheme, light/dark functions, accent color, selection styling, relative color syntax, and future style queries to control themes and light/dark modes.
#css #theming #light/dark
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CSS Components: Tailwind, Panda, Scoped, Modules, Classes, Variables, CSS-in-JS and Sprinkles!
Scott and Wes discuss different approaches to authoring component-scoped CSS, including class-based systems, BEM, CSS modules, utility classes, CSS-in-JS, and more.
#css #components #styling
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Should Your Website Work Without JavaScript?
Scott and Wes discuss whether websites should work without JavaScript enabled. They cover reasons pages may fail, progressive enhancement, and ways to improve the experience when JavaScript is not available.
#javascript
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6 New JavaScript Proposals
Scott and Wes discuss 6 upcoming JavaScript proposals that are making their way into the language spec.
#JavaScript #TC39
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Self Hosting: Reverse Proxy Servers
Discussion on what reverse proxy servers are, popular options, and various use cases like combining multiple apps and servers, handling SSL, security, serving static assets, and local development.
#reverse-proxy #self-hosting #devops
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Hosting Private Fonts on the Edge With Cloudflare
Discussion on building a custom font hosting server to securely serve licensed fonts only to allowed origins using Cloudflare Workers, Pages and KV store.
#Cloudflare #Fonts #Caching
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Perfect Sitemaps for SEO
Wes and Scott discuss why you need a sitemap, what should be in it, and how to generate and submit it properly for SEO.
#SEO #Sitemaps
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Do More With AI - LLMs With Big Token Counts
Discussion on using large language models with greater token counts to provide more context, allowing for better and more complex outputs to aid software development.
#AI #LLM #Tokens
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What Open Source license should you use?
An overview of open source software licenses, the different types like permissive and copyleft, and things to consider when choosing a license.
#Licenses #Open Source #Law
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How We Built a Netflix Style “Save for Offline” Feature Into Syntax
Scott and Wes discuss how they built an offline playback feature for Syntax podcast episodes using the Cache API to save files locally in the browser.
#podcasting #offline #caching
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Cloud Storage: Bandwidth, Storage and BIG ZIPS
Discussion on best practices, terminology, use cases and cost considerations when using cloud storage providers to store large files, backups, videos, images etc.
#cloud-storage #cloudflare #backblaze #aws
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The Modern Dev CMS - Pocketbase
Pocketbase provides a full backend with database, authentication, file storage, and more in an easy to use interface.
#webdev #programming #productivity
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Promise Flow Control, Concurrency, Libraries, TypeScript and Deferreds - Part 3
Discussion on advanced promise concepts like with resolvers, fetch promises, flow control, concurrency, throttling, TypeScript typing, and more.
#javascript #promises #concurrency
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Promises: Error Handling, Aborts, and Helper Methods - Part 2
Discussion on advanced promise concepts like canceling, controlling, helper methods, error handling strategies, and static methods on the Promise constructor.
#promises #error-handling #javascript
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React 19 is here!
React 19 has been released after 2 years, bringing some nice improvements like built-in web components, a new use API, simplified context, and allowing metadata anywhere.
#react #javascript #webdev
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JS Promises Fundamentals - Part 1
A 3-part series on JavaScript promises. Part 1 covers the basics of what promises are, creating promises, and waiting on promises to resolve.
#javascript #promises #async #await
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What to Steal. Finding Inspiration in Web Development
Discussion on finding inspiration in web design and development, how to ethically "steal" ideas, and resources for capturing inspiration.
#design #inspiration #ethics
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How to Easily Explore Coding Ideas
Explore different online services, code playgrounds, and local setups for quickly testing coding ideas and concepts.
#coding #development #productivity
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CSS Is Getting Mixins + Functions
Scott and Wes discuss the CSS proposal for mixins and functions being added to the language. This will allow writing cleaner, more reusable code directly in CSS instead of needing a preprocessor.
#CSS #WebDev #Frontend
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Cache Ruins Everything Around Me
Discussion about cache invalidation issues when caching user-specific data, solutions like using different URLs, partial caching, edge functions, and drawbacks like flash of unstyled content.
#caching #webdev #performance
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New CSS and JavaScript You Should Be Using
Scott and Wes discuss the latest web development news in 2010 including jQuery 1.2, mobile apps with HTML5, custom fonts, rounded corner CSS, Node.js, WordPress 2.3 and more.
#jQuery #Mobile #WordPress #JavaScript
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Middleware Explained
Explaining what middleware is and examples of how it's commonly used in web development for things like authentication, caching, error handling, etc.
#middleware #nodejs #webdev
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Docker For Developers
An overview of Docker geared towards web developers - what it is, why its useful, how to get started, core concepts, tools, and some pitfalls.
#Docker #DevOps
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TypeScript Interview Questions - STUMP’d
Wes and Scott quiz each other on advanced TypeScript features and syntax in a segment they call 'Stumped'.
#TypeScript #JavaScript
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Little Scripts: Coding for your Co-workers
Discussion on writing small scripts to help coworkers and improve workflows using tools like FFmpeg, AI, and automation
#automation #ai #productivity
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The Taliban Stole My Domain
Wes recounts how the Taliban taking over Afghanistan resulted in his bos.af domain being revoked, and discusses the intricacies and risks of getting clever country code top-level domains.
#domains #webdev #Afghanistan #country-codes
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Stop going to Spam: DMARC, SPF and DKIM Explained
Discussion on properly setting up DMARC, SPF and DKIM to ensure your transactional and marketing emails reach the inbox rather than spam.
#email #deliverability #DMARC #SPF
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CSS Native @scope
This episode covers the new native CSS scoping feature using the @scope rule, how it works, what problems it solves, and browser support status.
#css #frontend #webdev