686: We Need Your Help With The Secret Sauce

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the secret sauce that’s going into the creation of the new Syntax.fm website including the styling, search, tooling, database, hosting, and more.

• 00:21:15 Welcome
• 01:10:11 Where did the name “Secret Sauce” come from?
• 03:16:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 04:32:11 What Syntax.fm is built in?
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
• muxinc/media-chrome: Custom elements (web components) for making audio and video player controls that look great in your website or app.
• Media Chrome Docs
• 07:24:01 How we’re doing search
• flexsearch - npm
• 12:22:20 Styling
• Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
• PostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
• 16:00:05 Tooling
• Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
• 18:55:11 Database
• Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
• 21:11:11 Services
• Deepgram
• OpenAI
• Anthropic \ Introducing Claude
• 24:34:11 Hosting
• Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams
• PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale
• Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare

• Scott’s Instagram
• LevelUpTutorials Instagram
• Wes’ Instagram
• Wes’ Twitter
• Wes’ Facebook
• Scott’s Twitter
• Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
• Wes Bos on Bluesky
• Scott on Bluesky
• Syntax on Bluesky