In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through new and proposed JavaScript APIs including ones related to regex, sourcemaps, structured clone, temporal, JSON modules, and more! Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:26 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:55 RegExp Escaping Proposal tc39/proposal-regex-escaping: Proposal for investigating RegExp escaping for the ECMAScript standard 05:25 Intl.DurationFormat tc39/proposal-intl-duration-format 07:55 Standardized Sourcemaps tc39/source-map-rfc: RFCs for ...
Dec 06, 2023•56 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott explain ARIA, aria-label, Roles, and the overall importance of accessibility in your web projects. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:44 What is ARIA? WAI-ARIA Roles | MDN An in-depth guide to ARIA roles - The A11Y Project 02:48 What is aria-label? // A button with an ARIA role and label 06:36 What’s the difference between a title and aria-label on a button? 08:34 Are you really going to get sued if your website isn’t access...
Dec 04, 2023•28 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with James Mikrut about Payload, how Payload isn’t just a CMS, where Payload fits in a tech stack, why they picked Drizzle for an ORM, what Payload Cloud is, and where’s the Rails for JavaScript? Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 02:00 Who is James Mikrut and what’s the idea behind Payload? 05:22 Payload isn’t just a CMS Payload Payload on GitHub Payload on Twitter Payload on YouTube 09:08 Where does Payload fit in the tech stack? KeystoneJS Supab...
Dec 01, 2023•55 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions, including: Will TypeScript ever go away? Should I write canvas-rendered web apps? How can I execute untrusted JS code in node? How can I use continuous integration with WordPress? Any advice for learning Rust? Show Notes 00:09 Welcome 01:16 How to ask questions for potluck episodes Ask a question for Syntax potluck episodes 02:19 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 04:34 Will TypeScript ever go away? Migrating millions of lines ...
Nov 29, 2023•57 min
What are @Layers in CSS, when and where should you be using them, how do you write them, and who’s using them already? Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 01:49 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:55 Where is this supported? 07:21 How do we write layers? 10:47 How do you write your CSS? 16:20 Nesting 20:35 Who else is using @Layer? Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads...
Nov 27, 2023•26 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Salma Alam-Naylor all about her role in DevRel, what’s involved in working in DevRel, avoiding burnout, which platforms to focus on, and so much more. Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 01:07 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:52 New jobs and onboarding 03:34 What is Devrel? 11:34 How much of devrel is using your own product? Dogfooding the service? 14:49 What are things devrel people do? 20:32 Devrel burnout issues 24:53 Once you put a number...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer a listener’s question about their process for building a website in 2023. Do you start with design? With code? How do you decide on which CMS or if you need a CMS? How do you choose a backend framework? And where do you host it? Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 02:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:06 How do you build a website? 04:57 Start with the design Figma Design Systems with Brad Frost 11:12 Choose a Frontend / Components Pug EJS React Svelte Rem...
Nov 22, 2023•55 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about 5 new CSS features :nth-child(4 of .neat), CSS Motion Path, Scroll Snap, Scroll Driven Animations, and Margin Trim. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:10 :nth-child(4 of .neat) selector list argument of :nth-child and :nth-last-child CSS pseudo-classes | Can I use 06:43 CSS Motion Path 10:38 Scroll Snap Practical CSS Scroll Snapping 14:36 Scroll Driven Animations Scroll-driven Animations Supper Club × Bramus Van Damme on CSS 16:58 Margin Trim Hit us u...
Nov 20, 2023•25 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Techson about the recent Angular announcements and updates. How did Angular implement signals? What’s new in Angular 17? How does Angular handle CSS or UI component libraries? Show Notes 00:30 Welcome 01:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:39 What’s changing with Angular? Special Angular Event Angular 03:19 What happened to Angular.js, and what’s happening now? StackBlitz Analog | Analog Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-...
Nov 17, 2023•56 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the lessons they learned while launching the new Syntax website including launching now, transcription bugs, error monitoring, black text on black backgrounds, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome to Syntax 01:41 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:43 Don’t wait. Launch! 04:28 Transcript bug Most Powerful Speech-to-Text API | Deepgram 09:01 Error monitoring is a must 12:36 Timestamp error 16:20 Black text on black background might hide things 17:3...
Nov 15, 2023•57 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott explain what Stale While Revalidate is, why you should use it, and explore whether you should use it all the time on all the things. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:05 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:34 What is Stale While Revalidate? 03:13 Why is caching important? Max age calculator Can I Use 05:09 Where does a cache live? 07:05 Limit how often an API is being hit 11:51 What about Stale while Revalidate? 18:30 Why wouldn’t you just use Stale While Invali...
Nov 13, 2023•22 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers? Announcing WinterJS Cloudflare Workers® Puppeteer | Puppeteer 06:23 How long did Workers take to ship? 07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers? 10:52 Interesti...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the process they are using for extending the Syntax website with themes, including a dark mode and secret custom themes. They also talk about issues encountered with theming and CSS, including flashes of un-themed content. Show Notes 00:00 Syntax + Sentry Announcement! 01:35 Welcome 02:23 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:16 How to implement a theme 10:27 Writing the CSS 11:38 Glasses wearers protip 13:02 Class on the body and server side rend...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why you should be using JavaScript maps sets, whether you can access them directly, what makes them great, and what weak versions of both are. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:34 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:54 What makes Maps a spicy buffalo object? 07:46 API of Map 08:51 Looping over items in a Map 09:27 Can you change the size of a map after it’s been created? 10:07 Can you access properties directly? 12:13 Where have we used a map as a cac...
Nov 06, 2023•28 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day 08:54 How did you land at npm? npm 19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry? 22:11 What is vlt volt? vlt: a new home for open source vlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson Bun Yarn Nx 27...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 10 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about hosting NextJS, spicy sidedishes, putting forms in modern websites, why is everyone abandoning TypeScript, CSS Survey follow up, do devs need to be into CSS, and more! Show Notes 00:10 How to submit a question to Syntax Syntax Potluck Listener Questions 00:45 Syntax meet up in Toronto 02:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:36 Vendor lock in with NextJS? Next.js by Vercel Vercel SST Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serve...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min
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. Show Notes 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 ...
Oct 30, 2023•28 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jason Lengstorf about his journey in video creation, live streaming, and tech education. What’s up with Jason’s new studio? How does he prep for a live stream? Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 02:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:39 Who is Jason Lengstorf? 05:43 Why did you decide to go full time on Learn with Jason? 10:04 Jason’s new YouTube series idea 13:36 Jason gets a special delivery 14:30 What’s in Jason’s new studio? 20:14 What’s...
Oct 27, 2023•58 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott relate even more spooky listener submitted coding horrors including crypto copy paste, Big Brother bug, losing $50,000, 2,000 SMS, a $20,000 hour, and more. Show Notes 00:09 Velcome to Synax 01:09 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:36 Stories are anonymous! 01:57 Crypto copy + paste 03:48 Big Brother Bug 07:00 One of 6 laptops that can fix npm 07:57 Auto-submitting payments 09:42 40,000 orders shipped and refunded 11:16 Dropping the analytics database 11:...
Oct 25, 2023•51 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:22 Whetting your whistle 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight 08:02 Making changes to a...
Oct 23, 2023•32 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brad Frost about how to implement design systems in small and large scale projects, best practices around naming things, keeping everything in sync across different codebases, and how design systems help projects. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:02 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:34 Introducing Brad Frost Brad Frost.com Atomic Design by Brad Frost Brad (@brad_frost) on Twitter Brad on LinkedIn Brad on Mastodon Brad on YouTube Brad on ...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:49 v0.dev v0 by Vercel 09:28 Anthropic and Claude Claude Syntax Listener Survey 18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI AI at Meta 18:48 Cloudflare AI Large language model (LLM) Speech to text Translation Sentiment Analysis Image classi...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the libraries we don’t need to use anymore thanks to their features being built into the browsers now. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:17 Why did people use jQuery? jQuery lukeed/polka: A micro web server so fast, it’ll make you dance! 05:12 Writing our own jQuery plugins 07:23 AJAX requests jQuery.ajax() 08:29 Express Migrating to Express 5 14:58 Underscore.JS Underscore.js 19:27 Require.js RequireJS 21:06 LeftP...
Oct 16, 2023•32 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Chris Lattner about Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Should developers learn Python? Where does Mojo run? What is Chris excited about in AI’s future? Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 01:05 Introducing Chris Lattner Chris Lattner’s Homepage Chris Lattner on Wikipedia Chris Lattner on GitHub Chris Lattner on Twitter Modular (@Modular_AI) / X Modular: AI development starts here Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org 03:50 What’s th...
Oct 13, 2023•56 min
In this episode of Syntax, it’s part 2 of Wes and Scott’s reactions to the 2023 State of CSS survey including CSS frameworks, tooling, browser usage, SVG and CSS, and the CSS Awards. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome Reacting to State of CSS Survey — Syntax Podcast 672 State of CSS 2023 01:15 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:29 CSS Frameworks Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world. Open Props: sub-atomic styles Lightning CSS 10:57 How happy are you with CSS frameworks? 17:2...
Oct 11, 2023•56 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through tips for upping your home office vibe, including cable management, lighting, ergonomics, and even roller blade wheels. Show Notes 00:18 Welcome 00:46 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:13 Creating a great home office Scott’s New Office × The Levelup Lodge — Syntax Podcast 461 Wes’ New Soundproof Office — Syntax Podcast 516 03:22 Lighting 06:08 Clutter and cords Alex Tech 25ft - 1/2 inch Cord Protector Wire D-Line CC-1 Light Duty Floor Cord Cover/Ca...
Oct 09, 2023•27 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with David East about Google’s new cloud based full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow, Project IDX. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:31 Browser in the car 02:16 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:24 Who is David East? David East David East David East (@_davideast) / X Learn from David East’s courses | Frontend Masters Firebase | Google’s Mobile and Web App Development Platform 04:32 What is IDX? Project IDX Flutter - Build apps for any screen ...
Oct 06, 2023•59 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about Bun, using custom auth headers, the difference between trpc, REST, or GraphQL, documenting your code, why learn Rust, and more! Show Notes Take the Syntax Survey Attend the Syntax Meetup Oct 10th in Toronto 00:00 Syntax Survey 00:24 Syntax Meetup 01:02 Welcome 01:24 Scott’s macOS bug Tauri Apps 02:19 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:40 What are your thoughts on Bun? Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Zig Programming L...
Oct 04, 2023•57 min
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about headings on your website, why you should care, how to structure your headings, and what tooling is there for testing your website? Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:41 Why do we care about Headings? How-to: Accessible heading structure - The A11Y Project 03:12 Heading design provides an outline for your website 08:45 Using H1 classes? 10:28 Is the logo an H1? 13:03 Giving an ARIA level 17:14 Can headings be visually hi...
Oct 02, 2023•28 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Taylor Desseyn about his work as a job recruiter, how hiring has changed over the last few years, what soft and tech skills developers need, what not to do when applying, and how AI is affecting the hiring process. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:35 Who is Taylor Desseyn? taylor desseyn (/tdesseyn) Taylor Desseyn on LinkedIn World-class technical talent on tap | Gun.io taylor desseyn (@tdesseyn) / X ...
Sep 29, 2023•56 min
