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Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1
Developers share horror stories of catastrophic mistakes like deleting databases, breaking site functionality, exposing data, and more.
#Site Outages#Data Exposure
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Getting jQuery’d × Honourable Deaths of libraries We Don’t Use Anymore
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss various libraries and tools that have been replaced by standardized browser APIs and JavaScript features over the years, like jQuery, Express, Underscore, 960 Grid System, Sass, Socket.IO, Left Pad, etc.
#javascript#libraries#jquery#express
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Home Office Tips
Tips for optimizing your home office space for productivity and comfort as a developer working from home.
#productivity#workflow#office
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A11y Treats - Heading Design
Discussion on proper semantic usage of h1 through h6 headings for accessibility, SEO, and screen reader navigation.
#accessibility#headings#SEO
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Tauri Vs Electron - Desktop Apps with Web Tech
Discussion comparing Tori and Electron for building desktop apps using web technologies. Covers differences in bundle sizes, developer experience, maturity and more.
#tori#electron#desktopdev#webdev
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Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic?
Scott proxies requests from his Tonal workout device to reverse engineer the API and build custom community workouts since Tonal has limited functionality.
#Tonal#Proxying
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CSS Nesting is Here!
Wes and Scott discuss the new CSS nesting syntax that is now supported across all major browsers. They cover how it works, best practices, use cases compared to Sass, browser support via transpiling, and more.
#css#frontend#webdev
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JavaScript Closures & Scope Explained
Scott and Wes explain JavaScript closures, scoping, and give examples of how closures can be useful.
#javascript#closures#scope
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OG Image Options
Scott and Wes discuss techniques for dynamically generating social media preview images known as open graph or OG images using services like Satori, Cloudinary, and Puppeteer.
#webdev#javascript#ogimage
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8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API
Wes shares 8 tricks for using the JavaScript Fetch API including streaming responses, tracking download progress, and handling errors.
#javascript#webdev#fetch
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JS Fundamentals - Decorators
Scott and Wes discuss JavaScript decorators - what they are, how to use them, their current status, and potential future use cases.
#javascript#webdev#decorators
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Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?
Discussion on why Facebook and Instagram HTML/CSS is messy - random CSS class names and excessive div wrappers.
#facebook#css#react
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Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts
Compares JavaScript and Rust at a high level, including cargo, documentation, async/await, error handling, syntax differences, and more.
#javascript#rust#nodejs
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User Feedback UI - Toasts, Flash, Validation
Scott and Wes discuss best practices for user feedback UI like toasts, flash messages and form validation.
#UX#Accessibility#Forms
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Help Me Help You - How To Ask For Help
Wes and Scott discuss best practices for asking for help with libraries and open source projects like providing reproductions, being responsive and respectful, searching existing issues first, and sharing code context.
#GitHub#Bugs#Help#Support
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Roundup - Sick AI Tools For Developers
Discussion on using AI tools like CodeAI, CodeWhisperer, Copilot, lintrule, opencommit, Ghostwriter, Codegeeks, Codeum AI, TabNine, and ChatGPT for tasks like documentation, optimization, code generation, data formatting, commit messages and more. Notes the importance of validating any AI-generated code before use in production.
#AI#Productivity
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Lightning CSS
Wes and Scott discuss Lightning CSS - a fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler and minifier from the creator of Parcel. They cover the benefits of Lightning CSS including improved performance, support for future CSS syntax like nesting and color spaces, and more.
#CSS#Frontend
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Where to Register a Domain
Wes and Scott discuss top domain name registrars in light of Google Domains closing down. They compare pricing, features, UX and more across Namecheap, GoDaddy, Gandhi, Hover, Name.com, Cloudflare and others.
#web-dev#domains
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AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API
Discussion on AsyncLocalStorage and Async Context API in JavaScript which allow accessing context down the call stack without passing references explicitly.
#javascript#nodejs#webdev
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GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions
Wes and Scott discuss using GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions to organize and automate your workflow.
#GitHub#Automation