Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about not becoming dependent on Copilot, CSS variable limitations, finding Sick Picks, lodash hate, and more! Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:55 Ice, ice baby 02:01 Reactathon Reactathon returns May 2-3, 2023 The edge cloud platform behind the best of the web | Fastly 04:49 Submit your question for our next potluck 05:24 How do you...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons your node_modules folder gets so large, and what you can do to help keep the file size down. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 00:51 The punching bag of Javascript DaisyDisk 02:03 Spoiler alert - it’s text 04:49 What actually increases the size? 07:29 Types 09:27 Polyfills 11:09 Raycast Snippets and BetterTouchTool 12:44 Babel 15:08 Markdown 15:52 T...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Adam Argyle about a ton of new CSS features that have arrived or are coming soon, as well as his new site Gradient.style. Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:05 Guest introduction Adam on Bluesky Adam on Twitter 01:48 CSS buckets New CSS Relative Units · January 6, 2023 03:16 rex rch ric rlh 08:06 Gradient.style CSS HD Gradients Open Props: su...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for hosting your app including some of the big players, but also others you may not have heard of. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:06 Explaining basic concepts in hosting providers 07:55 How is hosting priced? 10:09 The big names in hosting Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Microsoft Azure DigitalOcean | The Cloud for Builders Sales Cloud...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Signals - what are signals and why is everyone talking about them suddenly? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:40 Chipping away at projects 03:20 WTF are signals? Signals Framework reimagined for the edge! - Qwik SolidJS · Reactive Javascript Library Zone Vanilla 09:03 What are the boundaries on signals? 10:49 Why are signals so popular now? 15:57 When wouldn...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dylan Jhaveri about his work at Mux, how Mux ingests and spits out video, and where Mux fits in a tech stack for developers working with video and audio. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:27 Who is Dylan Jhaveri? Dylan (@dylanjha) The Internet’s video infrastructure | Mux Mux Player 03:04 Why did you build Mux Player? FFmpeg FFmpeg WASM 06:1...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about UI elements and best practices with UI elements, as well as UI elements that exist in browsers. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:10 Making demos for fun 02:47 Why we’re talking UI elements 03:48 Bad UI elements in the browser Syntax 602: Modals, Popups, Popovers, Lightboxes Progress 10:47 Decent UI elements in browser 19:49 Enter Open UI Open UI 34:39...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk all things Bluesky, the AT Protocol it’s built in, the terminology of Bluesky, and how the API currently works. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 00:53 Welcome to the Bluesky Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky 03:14 What could the new Twitter be? 07:56 What is Bluesky? Nostr Bluesky Twitter Blue Bluesky Staging Bluesky FAQ 10:25 Why is social...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Zach Lloyd about how Google Sheets works, why Zach wanted to build Warp, why did they use Rust to write Warp in, is Warp going to come to Windows, and more! Show Notes 00:20 Welcome 01:12 Who is Zach Lloyd? Zack on Twitter Zack on LinkedIn Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals — Syntax Podcast 579 Warp: The terminal for the 21st century 0...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the tech stack they used to create the Syntax giveaway site for the Sentry + Syntax announcement week. What were the features of the site, how’d they generate proper codes, and how’d they stop developers from hacking the system? Show Notes 00:07 How to do a giveaway and distribute it? 04:26 Building in the spirit of Syntax 05:44 The tech stack Sv...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about RPC, what it means, why are we talking about it now, tRPC, and will RPC take off? Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:51 What does RPC mean? 04:52 Why are we talking RPC now? 10:27 Hype around RPC Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato — Syntax Podcast 577 11:05 Isn’t this just a REST endpoint? 13:23 Considerations around RPC 16:11 What about tRPC? Supper C...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Donata and Hans Skillrud of Termageddon on GDPR, privacy policies, cookie pop ups, and the various legal and ethical reasons to implement them properly. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:47 Who are Donata and Hans? Donata Stroink-Skillrud Esq., CIPP on Twitter Hans Skillrud on Twitter Termageddon Termageddon on Instagram Termageddon on Linke...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about type guards vs type casting, crypto usage, feedback for Syntax, custom status pages, SEO and metadata, uploading images, home automation, and more! Show Notes 00:12 Welcome 01:23 Scott’s new gear MT-48 Volt USB Audio Interfaces 07:36 Are type guards safer and superior to type casting? 13:51 I know you guys (lightly) rag o...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS Color Functions, the benefits of dynamic css color, relative color syntax, color contrast, and color mix. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 00:49 Why we’re talking CSS Color Functions 01:57 Benefits of dynamic CSS color 03:14 Relative color syntax 06:51 Color contrast 09:26 Color mix Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram We...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nicholas Zakas about his creation of ESLint, what’s coming up in ESLint, and his work as a coach and mentor for programmers. Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:20 Guest introduction Human Who Codes Nicholas C. Zakas (@nzakas@fosstodon.org) Twitter @slicknet nzakas on GitHub @humanwhocodes) on Instagram Human Who Codes on YouTube 04:24 Why did...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott go through all the features of Sass and decide where we are at with Native CSS alternatives, giving each feature a rating of replaceable, plausible, or missing. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:17 Easter updates 04:17 Getting into Sass 06:03 What is PostCSS? 09:52 CSS Variables 13:49 CSS Nesting CSS Nesting - Chrome Developers postcss-plugins/plugins/postcss-nes...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through the differences between modals, popups, popovers, lightboxes, and dialog boxes. Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 02:25 What’s popping up? 02:59 What’s a modal? 08:33 Pop overs and lightboxes 10:41 Explicit dismiss and light dismiss 11:30 Inert property inert 16:30 Backdrop pseudo element Dialog with animation 19:26 Dialog 28:12:11 Making accessibility easier...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nate Weinert, creator of Tamagui, about what Tamagui is, how styling works in React native, building and designing the Tamagui website, and more. Show Notes 00:29 Welcome 01:22 Who is Nate Weinert? Nate (@natebirdman) natew on GitHub Tamagui — React Native + Web UI kit tamagui: The worlds fastest React UI kit also happens to work on Na...

In the 600th episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the big announcement about Syntax’s future, exciting new opportunities coming for the show, and more! Show Notes 00:11 Scott’s big announcement 00:58 Our big announcement 01:39 Guest introduction David Cramer (@zeeg) Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry Sentry (@getsentry) 02:28 Background on how we got here...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk all things oAuth - what is oAuth? What terms do you need to understand when working with oAuth? And tips for working with oAuth. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome Office Space HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more! — Syntax Podcast 590 01:56 What is oAuth? 05:30 Terminology in oAuth 07:52 Once you have a client ID 09:41 The callback URL...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fabian Kägy about modern WordPress development, including what the local dev experience is like, changes to the block editor, how version control is handled, and more! Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:20 Who is Fabian Kägy? Fabian Kägy Fabian Kaegy (@fabiankaegy) Fabian Kägy (@fabiankaegy) on Instagram fabiankaegy on GitHub 10up | finely cr...

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer coding questions posed by ChatGPT like what’s the difference between rem and em in CSS, the difference between a callback function and a promse in Node, what are Fastify plugins, and more! Show Notes 00:19 The premise for this Stump’d 05:46 Scott’s weekend story 09:36 What is the difference between a for loop and a while loop in JavaScript? 11:11 Wha...

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the fact that import maps are in Safari Technical preview, and what that means for web developers. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 02:16 Import maps just dropped 04:09 Which browsers support it? 06:01 What is a map? 06:40 How does the syntax work? 09:35 What about dependency resolution? 10:25 What about bundlers? 13:17 How does this work with Deno? Deno — A m...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Justin Fagnani about working with web components, using Lit, how routing and state are handled, thoughts on signals, and what is the future of web components? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers...

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about what to do with client projects, testing animations, evaluating front-end frameworks, tools to use when learning, and coding related injuries. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers se...