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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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Supper Club × Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson
Mark Erikson explains the complexity of shipping JavaScript packages that work across many environments,tools and module systems, with details on his work updating Redux libraries to add ESM support.
#JavaScript#npm#ESM#packaging
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Anything but Coding - Landscaping, Fitness, and more!
Scott and Wes catch up on life outside of coding including concerts, home projects, fitness goals, and more. They also recommend a steam cleaner and a sci-fi kids book.
#Fitness#Pop Culture
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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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Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai
Aiden Bai discusses Million.js, a library that makes React rendering up to 70% faster by replacing the virtual DOM diffing process. He shares how it works, use cases, and his motivations for improving web performance.
#React#Performance#Virtual DOM
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Rust for JS Devs — Part 2
In part 2 of Rust for JavaScript developers, Scott and Wes dive deeper into Rust's type system, talking about integer types, strings, string slices, arrays, tuples, and other collection types. They also cover defining structs, adding methods, and other fundamentals.
#Rust#JavaScript
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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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Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski
Andrew Lizowski discusses how video editor Descript is built with web technology like Web Codecs and XState. He covers the AI transcription and voice features, using Radix and Tailwind for components, and reliable end-to-end testing with Playwright.
#JavaScript#React
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6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs
Overview of 6 new approved and proposed JavaScript APIs in various stages - ranging from shipped to just proposed. Covers Promise resolvers, immutable arrays, array grouping, observable events, import assertions, Map.emplace(), decorators and pattern matching.
#JavaScript#APIs#WebDev
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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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Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer
Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz JS, discusses Flight Control which lets you deploy apps on your AWS account with a great developer experience. Covers serverless deployment, preview environments, Docker, build caches, and more.
#AWS#Deployment#Docker
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Potluck × Is TypeScript Fancy Duct Tape × Back Pain × Cloud Service Rate Limits
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about TypeScript, preventing back pain while programming, and options for limiting cloud service costs.
#TypeScript#Posture#Cloud Services
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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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Supper Club × Ryan Florence of Remix
Ryan Florence discusses Remix, a React web framework he created with Michael Jackson. Topics include Remix's architecture, licensing model, adoption, and how it pioneered concepts like serverless functions.
#Remix#React#WebDevelopment
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Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More
Overview of standard APIs for JavaScript that work across server side runtimes like Node, Deno and Cloudflare workers.
#serverless#nodejs#javascript
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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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Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman
Andres Reinman discusses the history and complexity of email protocols and clients, building Nodemailer, DMARC authentication, avoiding spam filters, and his email products Email Engine and Ethereal Email.
#email#history#nodejs
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Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching
Wes and Scott discuss polyfilling, transpiling, and monkey patching - what they are, when to use each, and tools that can help.
#javascript#webdev#polyfill#transpile
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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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Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion
Discussion with Jake Champion about WebAssembly, Fastly ComputeEdge, and Polyfill.io.
#webassembly#edge-computing#polyfills
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Potluck × CSS Variables in React × JS Notebooks × Selling a Domain
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like React and CSS, JavaScript notebooks, selling domains, balancing learning as a new parent, and more.
#css#react#javascript#domains
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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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Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse
Steve Krause introduces val.town, a social platform for writing and running code snippets. He discusses the inspiration behind val.town, using Deno and Render for the backend, common use cases like IoT and webhooks, recommendations for learning coding, and building an engaged community.
#serverless#coding#education
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Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History
Scott and Wes use AI to generate challenging interview questions and quiz each other on web development topics ranging from JavaScript to CSS history.
#JavaScript
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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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Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock
Scott and Wes chat with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary's developer experience, AI media capabilities like image filling and background removal, building SDKs and components for frameworks like Next.js and Svelte, Colby's own YouTube channel and creative process, and advice for beginners.
#cloudinary#ai#media#images
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What are Headless Components?
Scott and Wes discuss headless components - reusable components that provide functionality without any UI. They talk about various headless component libraries, building accessible components, using headless WordPress, running headless Chrome, and more.
#headless#accessibility#components
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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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Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher
Armin Ronacher discusses designing performant queues and backpressure systems to handle massive scale at Sentry. He also shares his views on Python, JavaScript, Rust and staying up to date.
#Python#Queues#Scale#Sentry
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WTF is an ORM
Wes and Scott discuss what ORMs are, popular options like Prisma and Drizzle, schema vs models, and migrations. They also joke about dentists, pronunciation in tech, and share recommendations.
#ORM#Database#Prisma#Drizzle
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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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Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau
Dustin Schau discusses leading the Gatsby and Valhalla teams, using GraphQL as a data layer, low-code solutions for CMS editing, thoughts on React server components, and plans for improving Gatsby performance and integration. He also shares his editor setup, what tech stack he would use today, and his Ubuntu home theater setup.
#GraphQL#Jamstack#React
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Potluck × Warp × Skeleton UI × Edge Functions × Donut Scoping
Wes and Scott discuss upcoming conferences, computer issues, and strategies for working with rate limited APIs.
#Conferences#APIs
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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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Supper Club × JavaScript on Hardware, Micro Controllers, ESP32 with Nick Hehr
Nick Hehr discusses running JavaScript on microcontrollers with ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico using the Excess engine, challenges around tooling and standards, and how he builds projects with it.
#javascript#iot#hardware
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Electronics for Beginners
Wes gives an overview of basic electronics concepts like voltage, amperage, microcontrollers, coding, and projects he has built.
#electronics#IoT#DIY
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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
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Supper Club × OpenAI, Future of programming, LLMs, and Math with Andrey Mishchenko
Andrey Mashenko from OpenAI discusses developing plugins for ChatGPT, training language models, the future of programming and work, and aiming for artificial general intelligence.
#AI#ChatGPT#OpenAI#Future of Work
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Is JSDoc Better than TypeScript?
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss Svelte's recent move from TypeScript to using JSDoc for typing, explaining what JSDoc is and its benefits over regular TypeScript.
#JSDoc#TypeScript#Svelte
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Nothing in CSS - 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset
Discussion on values like none, 0, and hidden that essentially remove or undo something in CSS and HTML.
#CSS#HTML#Accessibility