Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about toast messages for validation, errors, confirmations, and more. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:04 Why use these types of notifications 03:34 Old school checking stories 05:35 What kinds of toast messages are there? 10:02 Why toast? 11:38 Best practices for toast messages 17:09 Timeouts and manual close auto close 19:38 Multiple messages stacking on top of...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jake Champion about his work with Fastly and Polyfill, the difference between WASY and WASM, what Winter CG is, and what makes Fastly different. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 02:06 Who is Jake Champion? Jake (@JakeDChampion) JakeChampion on GitHub 04:31 How long as Polyfill been around? 06:11 What is Fastly? Fastly Polyfill WASMTime SpiderM...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about Prisma, CSS variables in React components, JS notebooks, transcribing podcasts, keeping up with dev skills, selling a domain, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:42 Harassed by a big truck 03:20 Corrections and omissions Syntax 627 - Electronics for Beginners 05:57 Should I be using $executeRawUnsafe with Prisma? 09:48...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to get help for a bug or error you’re getting in someone else’s code. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:54 Building a reproduction of the error 03:55 Creating a gist Gist 04:48 Be responsive. Be ready. 08:03 Where do you go first for support? 09:44 Search for your issue first GitHub Issues 10:53 Be nice Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelU...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Krouse about val.town, what it is, his philosophies on teaching people to code, the tech stack for val.town, and the benefits of inspiring kids to learn to code. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:27 Who is Steve Krouse? Steve Krouse Future of Coding stevekrouse (Steve Krouse) · GitHub Steve Krouse (@stevekrouse) on Twitter Coding Class...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with questions about JavaScript, HTTP status error codes, memory safety, and a bit of web history thrown in. Show Notes 00:11:07 Welcome Displaced Gamers 00:46:00 In which year was JavaScript introduced? 02:59:16 What status code is returned by server when a resource isn’t found? 03:32:00 Which http status code indicates the client m...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about various AI tools for developers that are available. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:36 AI creeping into real life 04:03 Cody AI Cody - Business AI Employee Trained on Your Knowledge Base Sourcegraph 06:24 How AI coding help works 09:57 Amazon Code Whisper AI Code Generator - Amazon CodeWhisperer - AWS Amazon Code Whisperer VS Github Copilot 10:44 Copilot L...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary’s new AI tools, media flow, removing backgrounds, using AI for video templates, and Colby’s stack for creating YouTube content. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:11 Who is Colby Fayock? ColbyFayock.com Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock)on Twitter ColbyFayock - Twitch colbyfayock on GitHub Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock) •...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what headless components are, the why and when to use headless components, and how to best implement them. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 02:33 Tailwind Connect Tailwind Connect 2023 | Tailwind CSS Live Event 04:37 Headless component overview Downshift Headless UI 06:57 A country dropdown component 12:52 Possibly like Svelte actions? 18:46 What do head...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects. Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome 01:04:11 Overview of Lightning CSS Lightning CSS Devon Govett (@devongovett) Parcel 04:56:11 What’s in Lightning CSS? OKLCH 21:39:11 CSS Layers 24:57:14 Text decoration Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Ins...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher? Armin Ronacher mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) Armin Ronacher Armin Ronacher Apache Kafka 04:11 What are queues and what ar...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:39 Dental cleanings 03:00 What’s an ORM? 05:51 Benefits of using an ORM 12:54 Validation in ORM 19:18 What about Types? 23:44 Popular ORMs Prisma Sequelize Objection.js Knex.js DrizzleORM - next gen...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS 03:58 Domain name flattening 05:07 Domain name privacy 05:31 Proxy registrations 06:44 Bait and switch registrars 11:56 Domain registrars we found 13:09 NameCheap and Spa...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau? Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin) Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify 02:49 Is Valhalla from Gatsby? How to Source Content from a Headless CMS | Gatsby Valhalla Content Hub | Gatsby Netlify Connect Brin...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about rate-limiting an API, using Wasp, Enums in TypeScript, styling React projects, using Edge functions, and more. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:53 Connecting at conferences JSNation – the main JavaScript conference of 2023 RenderATL 2023 | May 31 - June 2, 2023. | 80+ Speakers 04:10 What technique do you use for consuming a ra...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about AsyncLocalStorage, why more frameworks aren’t using it yet, some examples, as well as some footguns. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:44 What is AsyncLocalStorage? 03:14 What is context? 07:49 Why aren’t more frameworks using AsyncLocalStorage for context for middleware? 10:16 Examples of usage 14:20 Footguns Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram Lev...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build involving hardware and software. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome to Syntax 01:04 Introducing Nick Hehr Nick Hehr (@hipsterbrown) HipsterBrown (@hipsterbrown@toot.cafe) - Toot Café HipsterBrown HipsterBrown (Nick...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through an introduction to electronics that you can do in your own home with microcontrollers. Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 00:52 What we’re talking about Arduino - Home ESP32 – The best products with free shipping | only on AliExpress 02:15 Airtag Sidebar 04:05 Projects We’ve Worked On 06:34 How do you run software on the microcontroller 08:50 Microcontro...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about some of the GitHub features you may not have used very much including projects, milestones, labels, and actions. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:53 That’s sick 04:05 What we’ve used in the past Trello Jira | Issue & Project Tracking Software | Atlassian 06:13 Working with Github Projects About Projects 11:57 Milestones About milestones 14:35 GitHub Labels...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott use the fact that Svelte is being converted from TypeScript to JavaScript with JSDoc to talk about the benefits of working that way, why they are doing it, and what you can do with JSDoc that TypeScript alone doesn’t let you do. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:12 Roof update 02:15 TypeScript haters need not apply 03:17 What is JSDoc? 04:27 What is our history w...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the nothing in CSS: 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:50 The @ property 03:33 Hiding Things 10:07 Ghost Spaces 17:47 Collapsing margins 18:33 0 units vs 0 23:42 Unset and initial 27:42 HTML Bonus Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit from GitHub about GitHub Next, Copilot, AI based projects at Github, and what the future is for developers with AI. Show Notes 00:38 Welcome 01:23 Who are Matt and Idan? Matt Rothenberg @mattrothenberg Matt Rothenberg on CodePen Matt Rothenberg on GitHub) Idan Gazit @idangazit Idan Gazit vis.social Idan G...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the work in progress on the new Syntax website, how to tackle all the moving parts, what stack they picked, AI, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:56 Leaky roofs 02:18 How we divided the workload for the new Syntax site Issues of Syntax v2 V2 of the website 02:55 Dark mode vs light mode 04:46 Our project management stack 06:36 High school da...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript executables - what is it? What’s the benefit of them? And what kind of tooling exists to support them? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:12 What are JavaScript executables? 04:39 Deploying tooling 06:01 Running on a USB stick 07:57 The size 12:19 Fastly The edge cloud platform behind the best of the web | Fastly Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScr...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Bramus Van Damme all about CSS, what the CSS Working Group is, how he got good at blogging, setting custom property types in CSS, view transition API, and so much more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Bramus Van Damme 02:29 Who is Bramus? Bramus Van Damme - Developer Relations Engineer - LinkedIn Original Content – Bram.us Bramus on Twitter (...