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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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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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Job Types Agency, Tech, Startup, Entrepreneur VS Tech company VS In House
Scott and Wes discuss the pros and cons of different web development jobs like agencies, tech companies, startups and freelancing.
#jobs#career#webdev
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Potluck - API Fetching × PDF Creation × tRPC × Stripe vs PayPal
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer developer questions on topics like caching slow APIs, generating PDFs from HTML, whether to learn SvelteKit before it hits v1, and more.
#APIs#PDFs#Payments#Frameworks
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Our Web Dev Wish List
Scott and Wes discuss frustrations with web development and wish for better defaults and APIs.
#javascript#webdev#apis
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Potluck! Node Versions, Old Man Internet, Responsive Design + MORE
Wes and Scott discuss resolving NPM errors when starting old projects, compatibility across Node versions, and specifying required versions in package.json.
#node#npm#compatibility#errors
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Our Code Styles
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott discuss their coding styles and preferences in JavaScript and CSS.
#JavaScript#CSS#TypeScript
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Potluck - Peer Dependencies × Vitest × NVM and PNPM × Sprites
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss NAS networking, Home Assistant, peer dependencies in npm, and transpilation when using Vite and Vitest.
#npm#networking#testing
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10 years of Speaking + Conferences
Wes and Scott discuss their experiences with conference speaking over the past 10 years, including the benefits like gaining legitimacy, improving public speaking skills, making connections, and traveling.
#speaking#conferences#connections
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Tips for Communicating
Communication tips for email, meetings, code reviews, spanning topics like numbering questions, bolding important parts, using paragraphs, and recognizing when you're asking a lot.
#Email#Communication#Writing#Productivity
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Home Automation - A Look Ahead
An overview of home automation protocols, software options like Homebridge, how it leads to family buy-in, and the ways automation can improve upon analog problems.
#smart home#protocols#customization
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Potluck - Headless WordPress, Databases, Regex
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like hosting databases, learning new programming languages, fitness goals, CSS environment variables, and more.
#Programming#JavaScript
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Syntax Live at Reactathon
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski host a live podcast episode from Reactathon, featuring debates, old code, syntax errors, JS or NAS, and audience Q&A.
#javascript#webdev#podcast
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Git in VS Code
Wes and Scott discuss using Git version control in VS Code, including built-in features and extensions that enhance the developer workflow.
#git#vs code
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TypeScript Tooling Explained
Overview of the various TypeScript tooling options including type checkers, compilers, build tools, IDEs, configs, and recommendations for server-side usage.
#typescript#tooling#compilers
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Potluck - Protestware × NoSQL × Next.js × ESM × Jest
Wes and Scott answer listener questions about Next.js, database options, build tools, protestware packages, and game development.
#Next.js#Open Source
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10 Nifty Browser APIs
Discussion of 10 interesting browser APIs for accessing user data and hardware like webcam, geolocation, animations, speech, and more.
#APIs#JavaScript
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WTF is the Edge? Edge Compute / Functions
Discussion on what edge computing is, how it works, use cases, upsides and downsides.
#edge computing#edge functions#serverless
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JavaScript × STUMP’D
Wes and Scott quiz each other on random JavaScript interview questions and discuss techniques and concepts like weak maps, promises, and variable swapping.
#JavaScript
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Potluck - Working on a Team × Dealing with Imposter Syndrome × Animating on the Web × Icon Libraries × Demanding Clients
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about working on a development team, dealing with imposter syndrome, using icon libraries, fixing broken service workers, building fullstack apps in Next.js, when to move a project to production, and dealing with bad clients.
#teamwork#webdev#javascript