Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this episode of Syntax, Wes reviews his experience building with Svelte and SvelteKit including templating, data fetching, actions, managing state, request handlers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:11 What is Svelte vs SvelteKit From React To SvelteKit — Syntax Podcast 390 Hasty Treat - Wes & Scott Look At Svelte 3 — Syntax Podcast 173 Svelte • Cybern...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how you can intercept and debug traffic going out from your computer or other internet connected devices in your home, or your garage! Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:17 Scott’s story of wanting to intercept data Tonal 06:36 Other examples 08:38 Different types of traffic 14:52 TCP vs UDP 16:07 Why would you want to ru...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Stuart Bloxham about how he learned to code, what his interview process was like when applying for a job, how he found the time to make it all work, and his thoughts on bootcamps and ways to learn. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome Stuart Bloxham on GitHub Stuart Bloxham on LinkedIn 02:09 How did you decide to be a web developer? 08:22 Did you...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the projects they built during Sentry’s Hackweek: a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor, and a hardware recording button. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:57 What is a hack week? 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:42 Scott’s project: a multiplayer editor Liveblocks | Collaborative experiences in days, not months PartyKit | Everything is better with...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the arrival of CSS nesting. What is CSS nesting? How does CSS nesting work? And does it work in all browsers? Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 02:31 What’s up with CSS nesting? "CSS Nesting just landed in Firefox 117 which puts it at 100% browser support! You can start using it today — here are 11 examples on how it works 👇 04:10 How does CSS nesting work? 09...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 3x guest Fred Schott! Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580 Pika Pkg — Syntax Podcast 212 05:11 What is...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning soft skills, using release notes, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, what inet is, better ways to use ChatGPT, and more! Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:42 Scott’s butt pincher Affenpinscher 06:08 You keep missing my favorite thing about Civet Civet 07:31 What soft skills can I learn to help me in...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:49 Being tired The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre 05:08 Landscaping 10:53 Gym updates...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Erikson about his work in helping others understand shipping ESM, how to deal with permutations, whether default imports are helpful, whether TypeScript has made it easier, and what Mark’s tool stack is for building. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:45 Introducing Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson Mark Erikson (@acemarke) Wes Bos on Twitt...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:49 Being tired The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre 05:08 Landscaping 10:53 Gym updates...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about OG images, interesting ways you can work with them, and ways you can work dynamically with them. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:18 What are OG images? 06:19 Testing OG images Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers Meta Tags — Preview, Edit and Generate Sharing Debugger - Meta for Developers Card Validator | Twitter Developers 08:27 Creating an...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used a VCR? Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 00:57 Introducing Aiden Bai Aiden Bai aidenybai on GitHub @aidenybai on Twitter Aiden Bai on YouTube Million.js 01:57 What is Million.js? 03:20 How...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott jump into part 2 of their look at Rust for JavaScript developers, including variables in Rust, type systems in Rust, signed and unsigned integers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:43 Audio issue bugs 03:17 Building decks 06:06 Variables in Rust Syntax 647: Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts let x = 5; // x is immutable let mut x = 5...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about 8 tricks to try when using the Fetch() API. Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 02:14 1) Stream The Result // Create a new TextDecoder instance const decoder = new TextDecoder(); // Make the fetch request fetch('https://api.example.com/streaming-data') .then(response => { // Check if the response is valid if (!response.ok) { throw new Error('Network response was...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:07 What is Descript? Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. Work — Sandwich 02:21 Who is Andrew Lisowski? Andrew Lisowski (@HipsterSmoothie) / X h...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about new approved and proposed JavaScript API changes including Promise.withResolvers, .at(), Immutable Array Methods, Array.fromAsync, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 04:55 What are we going to cover? 06:10 Promise.withResolvers 09:40 .at() You probably knew about JavaScript’s new .at() method for accessing array items. Did you know it works for s...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about whether decorators are finally here, what the uses cases are for decorators, how to define a decorator, and what auto accessor is. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:00 Are decorators finally here? TC39 proposal How this compares to other versions of decorators 06:47 What are use cases for decorators? 10:55 How do you define a decorator? 14:20 Auto Accessor o...

Can you have a Vercel like experience on your own AWS? Scott and Wes talk with Brandon Bayer about Flightcontrol - what it is, how to use it on your app, pricing, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:28 Who is Brandon Bayer? Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol (@flybayer) / X Flightcontrol (@Flightcontrolhq) / X Blitz.js - The Missing Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js Flightcontrol — AWS Without Pain Tailwind C...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about TypeScript just being fancy duct tape, dealing with back pain while coding, rate limits on cloud services, what to use for email provider, is Firebase a legit platform, and more! Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 03:11 The Sunday scaries 06:03 Is TypeSctipt just a bunch of fancy Duck Tape? Is TypeScript saving us? 12:29 How do you...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why Threads, Instagram, and all things Facebook have what seems like really messy HTML and CSS? Show Notes 00:10 Welcome Scott on Threads Wes on Threads 00:35 Threads has got divs 02:42 Tight scoping 09:44 Avoids specificity 10:37 Dealing with ad blockers and scraping 15:45 Divs are free, what’s the big deal? 20:19 Facebook is tracking everything...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Florence about Remix, working at Shopify, the history of licensing and pricing, quitting Twitter, the state of React Server components, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Ryan Florence Ryan Florence (@ryanflorence) / X React Training React Router Docs Moved ryanflorence (Ryan Florence) · GitHub 01:42 Collarbone update 06:47 What i...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about JavaScript runtimes available to use, what to consider, and packages to use. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:00 Scott’s glasses 03:46 All the runtimes Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Edge Functions Supabase Docs Edge Functions Netlify Docs Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.j...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Rust, and how the concepts might translate for JavaScript developers looking to try writing in Rust. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:08 Wes’ big beer bottle and Red Green RedGreenTV on YouTube 05:03 Thrift store finds 06:19 Rust in JavaScript TOML: Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language 11:07 Documentation Docs.rs Practice.rs 16:46 Memory safety 17:43 What about p...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andris Reinman about his work on all things email - spam, DMARC, SPF, why there’s no good CSS in email, and his current project: Email Engine. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:56 Introducing Andris Reinman Andris Reinman on GitHub Andris Reinman (@andrisreinman) Nodemailer :: Nodemailer 04:34 Why is email so difficult? Free DMARC Monitoring...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what polyfills, transpiling, and monkey patching mean, how and when to do it, and libraries that can help you out. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:07 Toast follow up 02:45 What are transpiling, ponyfill, polyfill, and monkey patching TC39 Proposals Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3 11:18 Transpil...