Syntax Podcast Shows

Tasty September 7th, 2022

Potluck - How to Pick a Tech Stack × useEffect × setTimeout × Staying Focused

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions on object creation performance, VSCode types, standing desks, and more.

#javascript #vscode #typescript

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Hasty September 5th, 2022

Big Deno Changes

Deno has announced compatibility with Node and NPM, making it easier to use existing packages. They also have the fastest JS web server and good TypeScript support, so Node may fall behind.

#deno #nodejs #javascript

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Supper Club September 2nd, 2022

Supper Club × Steve Ruiz Building a Drawing App

Steve Ruiz discusses the development of his open source React drawing canvas TLDraw, explaining the inspiration and technology behind it.

#React #SVG #Canvas

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Tasty August 31st, 2022

Syntax Highlight

Wes and Scott discuss the first day of kindergarten, setting up Wes' new office, soundproofing with acoustic panels, and then transition to reviewing developer portfolios.

#Design #Education #Podcasting

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Hasty August 29th, 2022

Margins

Discussion of various techniques for handling margins and layout in CSS including collapsing margins, padding vs margins, flexbox, grid, and using spacer divs.

#css #layout #margins

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Supper Club August 26th, 2022

Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-service with Brandon Roberts

Brandon Roberts discusses AppRight, an open source self-hosted backend for web and mobile apps. It provides database, auth, storage, functions and more out of the box.

#appright #firebase #backend #self-hosted

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Tasty August 24th, 2022

Fundamentals - Web Workers and Service Workers

In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss the differences between public and private schools in Denver and the challenges of getting kids into preferred schools. They then provide an overview of threads, concurrency and parallelism in programming languages and how JavaScript only has a single thread. They use examples like green screening webcams to demonstrate when you may need to offload work to other threads using web workers.

#Schools #Threads #Performance

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Hasty August 22nd, 2022

Episode 500!

Scott and Wes celebrate 500 episodes by looking back at milestones, favorite moments and episodes, and answering listener questions.

#podcasting #milestone

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Supper Club August 19th, 2022

Supper Club × Rich Harris, Author of Svelte

In this episode, Rich Harrison provides an intro to Svelte and discusses its developer experience benefits, templating language, immutability, compilation process, lack of virtual DOM, and more.

#svelte #webdev #javascript