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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.
Supper Club
Daniel Thompson discusses Tauri, a framework for building small, fast and secure desktop and mobile apps using Rust and webviews instead of Electron. Key topics include improvements in version 2 like mobile support, the plugin system, and custom web views, the release cycle and future roadmap, and designing in the age of AI.
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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.
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In this episode Scott and Wes discuss side projects - where developers get ideas, setting goals, choosing technology stacks, keeping notes, and actually finishing.
Supper Club
CJ discusses hosting the Denver TypeScript meetup, the return of meetups post-COVID, finding organizers and speakers, using Meetup.com, what makes a good meetup, his first meetup experiences, the importance of community, and tips for organizing, attending, finding and getting involved with meetups.
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Scott and Wes go through a big list of apps they use for productivity. This episode covers files, media, utilities, screenshots and more.
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Discussion on reasons why CSS code can be difficult to work with and maintain over time
Supper Club
Ryan Dahl discusses Deno 2.0 and its new NPM package support, while still keeping Deno's simplicity and standarization goals.
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Podcast episode explaining the fundamentals of HTML including the importance of semantic markup, document structure, forms, rich media elements, and more.
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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.
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Guests Una Kravitz and Adam Argyle discuss the evolution of CSS over the years, new CSS version numbering like CSS 4 and CSS 5, container queries, scroll state queries and other modern CSS features.
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Discussion on new Node.js features aligned with web standards and industry norms, including native TypeScript support, SQLite integration, dotenv support, and more.
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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.
Supper Club
Daily Dev is a platform that helps developers stay up-to-date by providing a personalized feed. It was created by 3 developers and launched on Product Hunt, gaining its first users. It has since raised $11M in funding and grown to 30 team members and over 500,000 users.
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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.
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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.
Supper Club
Alex Reardon discusses building accessible and performant drag and drop interactions using native browser APIs and his Pragmatic Drag and Drop library.
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Scott and Wes discuss the State of React 2023 developer survey results, including React API and framework usage, trends, pain points and more.
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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.
Supper Club
Glauber Costa discusses Terso, a distributed SQLite platform getting attention for its managed service and LibSQL fork enabling new architectures.
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Scott and Wes ask each other interview questions to stump one another and teach web development concepts.
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Scott and Wes discuss 6 upcoming JavaScript proposals that are making their way into the language spec.
Supper Club
John Resig discusses creating jQuery, working at Khan Academy, using React and GraphQL, and the evolution of JavaScript.
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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.
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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.
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The developers of Drizzle, a TypeScript ORM, discuss the project's history, their design decisions, how they built complementary tools like Drizzle Studio, and what work is like while living through war in Ukraine.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions about over-engineering, generative AI, frameworks, meetups, and more.
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Discussion on building a custom font hosting server to securely serve licensed fonts only to allowed origins using Cloudflare Workers, Pages and KV store.
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Interview with Prettier creator Christopher "Vjeux" Chedeau about the origins, growth, funding status and future roadmap of the ubiquitous code formatter.
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Discussion of various tools and libraries for building local first web applications
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Wes and Scott discuss why you need a sitemap, what should be in it, and how to generate and submit it properly for SEO.
Supper Club
Deep dive into LLRT, Amazon's new crazy fast JavaScript runtime tailored for serverless environments like Lambda. Covers background, implementation, benchmarks, use cases and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss the 2023 State of JS survey results and developer trends
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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.
Supper Club
Paul Copplestone, CEO and cofounder of Supabase, discusses the origins of Supabase as an open source alternative to Firebase built on Postgres, with a focus on developer experience.
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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.
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An overview of open source software licenses, the different types like permissive and copyleft, and things to consider when choosing a license.
Supper Club
Discussion with Tim Neutkens from Vercel about new React features like the React Compiler, React Server Components, and tools like Next.js and TurboPack.
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Wes and Scott answer audience questions about logging, blogging, testing, freelancing, carbon footprint tools, having kids, murder mystery podcasts, and pressure washers.
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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.