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 unset and initial 11:54 true and false outside ARIA attributes 14:56 Is there a way to modify the CS...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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 LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include ...
Jul 17, 2023•16 min
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 Classes for Kids & Teens | Coding for Kids | The Coding Space 03:06 What is Val.town? Val Town 08:35 ...
Jul 14, 2023•58 min
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 must authenticate itself? 04:34:17 What is a pseudo class and give an example? 05:15:11 What JavaScri...
Jul 12, 2023•54 min
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 Labs GitHub Next GitHub Next | GitHub Copilot Labs 14:25 LintRule Lintrule 18:06 Open Commit di-sukha...
Jul 10, 2023•36 min
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) • Instagram 01:57 What is Cloudinary? Image and Video Upload, Storage, Optimization and CDN 03:03 What...
Jul 07, 2023•54 min
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 headless components provide? 19:13 Examples of headless component projects Microsoft Edge Demo 24:24 How...
Jul 05, 2023•48 min
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 Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in y...
Jul 03, 2023•29 min
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 are they used for? 08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue? 12:49 Does this help when a p...
Jun 30, 2023•59 min
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 TypeScript ORM Mongoose ODM v7.3.1 TypeORM waterline.js 42:41 Potential downsides to using an ORM 45...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min
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 Spaceship Namecheap Spaceship 17:42 GoDaddy GoDaddy 19:26 Ghandi Gandi.net 21:16 Porkbun Porkbun 22:18 ...
Jun 26, 2023•42 min
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 Brings All Content Sources & CMS Apps Together 05:41 Valhalla is now Netlify Connect 09:32 How often...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr
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 rate-limited API? 07:58 Is Wasp-lang.dev ticking all the boxes for an awesome full-stack JavaScript fr...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min
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 LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to inclu...
Jun 19, 2023•17 min
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 (@[email protected]) - Toot Café HipsterBrown HipsterBrown (Nick Hehr) Nick Hehr on CodePen 03:58 Running JavaScript on microcontrollers 06:20 What was your first p...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 Microcontrollers are extendable 12:05 Fixing a dryer 14:06 Sprinkler system 15:48 Microcontrollers 20:28 AC and...
Jun 14, 2023•58 min
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 Managing labels 19:51 GitHub Actions Features • GitHub Actions Level Up Tutorials - Learn modern...
Jun 12, 2023•24 min
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 with JSDoc? 06:37 Why is Svelte moving to JSDoc? 08:11 Why is JSDoc better than TypeScript? 12:31 You...
Jun 07, 2023•43 min
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 Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky S...
Jun 05, 2023•34 min
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 Gazit on GitHub 02:22 What’s the history of GitHub Next? GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer Cha...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 dances 08:36 Tech stack for Syntax v2 Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript Planet...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 13 min
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 JavaScript and TypeScript Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Ins...
May 29, 2023•17 min
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 (@bramus) bramus on GitHub (Bramus!) 03:33 What is the CSS Working Group? CSS WG Blog w3c/csswg-draft...
May 26, 2023•56 min
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 suggest adding form / database to Svelte? Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps Astro 08:18 Wha...
May 24, 2023•58 min
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 Translations 18:23 What is the solution? Raycast Bundlephobia | Size of npm dependencies Better Touch...
May 22, 2023•25 min
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: sub-atomic styles 13:49 What are style queries vs container queries vs state queries? una.im | Style Q...
May 19, 2023•56 min
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 Flightcontrol — AWS Without Pain Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad — Syntax P...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min
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’t you use signals? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Ins...
May 15, 2023•19 min
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 06:19 How did you chose to go with web components? CanIUse Mediasource 09:36 What is Mux? 15:20 Can you ...
May 12, 2023•57 min
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 Accordion hunks 38:15 Pop overs 42:15 Focus group 46:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× ...
May 10, 2023•56 min
