In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to enforce your rules. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any l...
Feb 27, 2023•28 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more! Show Notes 00:40 Welcome 01:08 Guest introduction FredKSchott.com @Fredkschott on Twitter Fred on GitHub 02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it? 04:57 What can you build with Astro? 06:11 What’s an island in content? 09:43 How do routes work with Astro? 12:30 H...
Feb 24, 2023•59 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why they’re digging Warp as their terminal app of choice, what the terminal is, and some of their wishlist items for Warp. Show Notes 00:09 Welcome 02:11 Disclaimers 04:17 What is the terminal? 06:54 What we’ve used for terminal Get Warp Hyper Terminal iTerm Alacritty 11:14 Terminal terminology CommandLinePowerUser.com WSL OhMyPosh OhMyZsh Starship Ion 17:35 The basic features of Warp 20:45 Autocomplete issues Fig 25:06 Sticky header 26:13 Bloc...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps and packages to help with logging. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works...
Feb 20, 2023•26 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Carniato about Solid.JS, SolidStart, how web components work with Solid, why he chose JSX, and what the future of Solid is. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:38 Who is Ryan Carniato? @RyanCarniato on Twitter Ryan on Dev.to Solid.JS 02:37 Why did you build Solid? Knockout.JS Marko JS 09:15 What is Solid? 12:55 What does it mean to compile to vanilla JavaScript? SolidStart Tanstack Query 19:39 What are observables and signals? 27:17 How...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript for marketers, managing application secrets, and more! 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hour...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what you can do to better organize your config files. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 02:20 Electric car ski tripping 05:01 Why config files? 07:47 Custom Vite config files Wes’ Vite config define: { __VERSION__: JSON.stringify(process.env.npm_package_version), }, 11:16 Node has failed us 13:30 Cosmic config Cosmiconfig 16:46 File nesting 21:01 Standardize on a format Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes...
Feb 13, 2023•25 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Miško Hevery about why developers should check out Qwik, the benefits of lazy loading, sharing state between components, and other Builder.io projects like Partytown and Mitosis. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:19 Guest intro Miško Hevery @MHevery 01:58 What is Resumability? 05:06 What is Qwik? Qwik Qwik City 07:03 Why would you want to make a component resumable? 12:08 Qwik code can be lazy loaded 15:28 How is server side rendering hand...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 8 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their respective processes for converting JavaScript to TypeScript in their projects, why you might want to, and tooling for moving to TypeScript. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to ...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through quick tips to improve performance of your website, and the tools available to help diagnose and fix perf issues. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:50 Polish And Perf explained 02:05 What kinds of tools are available to improve performance Lighthouse in Chrome PageSpeed 09:32 Identify route caching and http caching 14:25 Partytown Partytown 15:19 Unnecessary network calls Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagr...
Feb 06, 2023•21 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning Rust, and ideas of good projects to begin learning Rust with. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:26 Guest introduction Rust in Action Tim on Twitter Tim on YouTube 03:51 What was it like to write a book on Rust? 07:52 What drew you to Rust? 13:01 The approachability of Rust 21:41 What’s a good introductory project with Rust? 25:15 Why would someone learn ...
Feb 03, 2023•58 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syn...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, overflown, and more. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:09 Snow skate update 03:01 Mixins 05:06 Range selector 09:36 :first-of-column :last-of:column / row Ability to target items in nth-row of autofilled, implicit grid 11:43 Fit Text 13:34 Overflow-x, overflow-y control 15:36 Full support for CSS with Inline Styles 16:24 nth-of-found() 18:18 Robust Color f...
Jan 30, 2023•35 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Buffalo and Canada History of Target in Canada 06:23 Who is Caleb Porzio? @CalebPorzio on Twitter 09:26 What is Livewire? Livewire Alpine.js HotWired 12:58 Are these MVC frameworks? 18:11 What is the process behind the scenes? 20:36 How does Hotwire handle rendering? 25:38 What is Alpine.js...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022. Show Notes State of JS 2022 00:26 Welcome 01:24 Thoughts on the survey in general 04:24 Country of origin 05:53 Salaries 08:14 Higher education 08:58 JavaScript features 15:41 Browser APIs 21:15 Library Usage 26:11 Interest in frontend frameworks 28:40 Framework usage 31:41 Rendering frameworks 34:57 Build tools usage over time 39:37 Monorepo tools Moon 46:41 Backend frameworks Civet 47:42 JavaS...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries. Show Notes 00:28 Welcome 01:46 What are Container Queries? Tweet about Container Queries 03:28 Use cases for Container Queries Home Assistant Can I Use? 06:11 The syntax of container queries 13:42 New units 22:27 Old iOS versions may cause issues Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ ...
Jan 23, 2023•26 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity? 04:04 What kinds of services use Sanity? 06:18 What is a content lake? 07:26 Enabling code access to Sanity Studio 13:12 Implenting Sanity into a React app 14:49...
Jan 20, 2023•55 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs software engineer, taking payments, and more. Show Notes 00:11:11 Welcome 01:29:11 When should you use article and section in HTML? 08:03:08 Does your business suffer from the economic recession? 15:47:18 How do you manage your money or budget? PlainTextAccounting YNAB Copilot 20:51:11 What should I consider using? There’s a lot of options. CommonJS...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 03:19 Buying vs building topic 07:09 Strategy 09:50 Escapability 14:56 Services You Could Use Sentry Postmark 16:34 Efficiency of using a service 18:08 Cron jobs 20:43 Checkout Recurly Lemon Squeezy Stripe Braintree 24:29 Hosting 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images Cloudinar...
Jan 16, 2023•44 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, data visualization, and coding for a sustainable focused company. Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:10 Guest introduction Rolling With Kat 03:05 Bag milk? 04:34 What is Tangible Materials? Tangible Materials 07:27 How did you end up at Tangible? Full Stack Academy 10:05 Are bootcamps worth it? 14:46 How important were in person classes to you? All We Can...
Jan 13, 2023•56 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness. Show Notes 00:17 Welcome 02:38 What’s a cantina? 06:33 Scott’s coding goals Animated grid layouts Tauri 14:39 Wes’ code goals Uses Stripe Stripe Elements Shoelace 23:17 Tooling Vite Plugin List Directory Contents 26:39 Scott’s courses and platform LevelUp.video 29:36 Wes’ courses Wes Bos Tutorials 31:11 Scott’s fitness goals 35:55 Wes’ fitness go...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Satisfies and as const. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Xmas recap Peloton 04:09 Satisfies and as const 06:16 What is const? 10:30 Helping with currency 12:44 Bos monster server update 14:13 Satisfies export const currencies = { USD: 'US Dollars', CAD: 'Canadian Dollar', EUR: 'Euro', } as const; export type Currency = typeof currencies; export type CurrencyCode = keyof Currency; Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram W...
Jan 09, 2023•23 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’s like moving from management to coding and back, the book writing process, and her Fortnite VS Code theme. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:59 Who is Sarah Drasner? @Sarah_Edo on Twitter @Sarah_Edo on Mastodon @Sdras on CodePen @SDras on GitHub SarahDrasnerDesign.com Google Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Amazon: Engineering Management for the ...
Jan 06, 2023•55 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their predictions in web development for 2023. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:25 SSR JS sites more the norm 03:32 React doing forms 05:39 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 08:11 Deno gets hotter 12:51 JS Runtimes Mature HTMX 15:00 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust 19:20 New JS APIs 23:37 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular. “Worker Ready” script STC 27:05 A new JS framework SolidJS Qwik 29:44 Page Transitions API 32:40 Scott was r...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some TypeScript Fundamentals around type narrowing, type guards, and type predicates. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:40 Rocking predicates 02:54 What is a type in TypeScript? 04:11 Type Narrowing 08:18 Type Guard 16:19 Type Predicates Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include...
Jan 02, 2023•23 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kilian Valkhof about his work on Polypane, a browser for developers. How is Polypane built? Why does he have a focus on accessibility in Polypane? Show Notes 00:39 Welcome 01:48 Who is Kilian Valkhof? kilianvalkhof.com @kilianvalkhof on Twitter 04:50 What is Polypane? Polypane @Polypane on Twitter FromScratch 09:31 How is Polypane built? 14:18 What about the Dev tools tab? 20:15 Outline tab 23:23 Color picker 27:33 Canvas rules and g...
Dec 30, 2022•59 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott revisit their 2022 predictions and see which ones they got right, and which they got wrong. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of ...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri. 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 see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Synt...
Dec 26, 2022•27 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kenneth Lyerly about his career path into coding, and how he manages to hold two jobs. Show Notes 00:38 Welcome Ken.dev Ken on Github 01:59 How do you have two jobs? 09:46 When did you start a second job? 16:02 Any tips for someone wanting to switch into coding? 24:03 Do you have advice for people trying to market themselves? 31:38 What is working these days for marketing efforts? 34:47 Where can devs learn about marketing? 35:50 Bar...
Dec 23, 2022•47 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about how to give feedback on the podcast, deciding on a business model for courses, what to do about Twitter, and more. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and dev...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 7 min
