Scott and Wes introduce Syntax’s new Senior Content Producer, CJ Reynolds, who will be creating video deep-dives and companion content for topics covered on the podcast. CJ, also known as the host of Coding Garden, shares his passions for web development, teaching and experimenting with new technologies. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:06 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 04:39 What got you into web development? 09:23 Does a degree in computer sciences help you in your day to day as a web deve...
Feb 28, 2024•57 min
Wes shares the story of how the Taliban stole his .af domain. Scott and Wes discuss top-level domain (TLD) best practices, how to find unique custom domain names for your website, and how to avoid having yours stolen. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io 01:11 The story of how the Taliban stole my domain. 05:10 When you purchase a domain, does that country receive the registration fee? Country Code Top-Level Domain Infrastructure Top-Level Domain Generic Top-Leve...
Feb 26, 2024•15 min
Scott and Wes welcome HTMX creator Carson Gross to discuss the versatile applications and optimal scenarios for using HTMX, alongside insights into its creation and evolution. Join us as we explore the future prospects and improvements as we look towards HTMX 2.0. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:52 Brought to you by Sentry.io 02:22 Who is Carson Gross? BigSkySoftware GitHub BigSkySoftware 03:53 What exactly is HTMX? htmx.org htmx.org/examples 07:04 What made you want to create something l...
Feb 23, 2024•52 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott discuss egress, scraping, Safari EU changes, and answer questions on updating dependencies and SetInterval. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:35 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 02:49 I have over 100,000 user images on Cloudinary. How do I migrate to another service? Cloudflare-Cloudinary Proxy 07:27 Switching from Mac to PC. Figma, DaVinci Resolve 12:32 What’s your take on the Safari 17.4 PWA removal debacle for EU users? Bug Report Fullscreen A...
Feb 21, 2024•59 min
Wes and Scott explore the web standards and email authentication methods that keep your email from going to spam; DMARC, SPF and DKIM. If you send email via a custom domain name, you need to listen to this! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:06 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 02:08 What exactly are SPF, DKIM, and DMARC? 02:53 Different ways that you may want to send email. 03:23 Transactional emails. Resend, email for developers 05:07 Email marketing. 05:47 Anything else that sends email on you...
Feb 19, 2024•26 min
Scott and Wes are joined by security expert, Alex Sexton of Stripe to cover all things: client security, XSS, attack vectors, and CSP (content security policy). Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:31 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 00:57 Who is Alex Sexton? 04:44 Stripe dashboard is a work of art. 05:08 Tell us about the design system. React Aria 08:59 Who develops the iOS app? 09:50 Stripe’s CSP (content security policy). 12:50 What even is a content security policy? Content Security Policy exp...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Scott and Wes talk about the benefits of owning your own PaaS (platform as a service), the main alternatives in the space, and ways to make passion projects more financially viable. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:12 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:56 What is a PaaS? NGINX 04:21 Challenges with payment structures. Render 07:02 What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes 07:51 What are the differences between Kubernetes and Docker? Docker Swarm 09:15 Reasons to own your own PaaS. Nelify Bluehost 15:05 ...
Feb 14, 2024•58 min
In this very hasty treat, Wes and Scott cover CSS Native @scope, the implementation of this tool, and some of its limitations. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:00 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 01:33 Why scope your CSS? 03:21 Scott’s hot take. 05:43 How does @scope CSS work? 07:31 Similar to a component-based workflow. 08:00 Not having to specify a selector for your scope. 09:52 Pseudo inline hover styles. 11:31 Donut scope. 13:01 “Inverted donut-hole scope” 14:50 Browser support + limitatio...
Feb 12, 2024•18 min
In this supper club, Scott and Wes welcome Kevin Hou, Head of Product Engineering at Codeium, a blazing fast AI-powered code completion and chat tool for developers. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 05:31 An introduction to Codeium. 07:56 What information are you sending the AI to get such good completions? Codeium compliance 09:15 Codeium runs a 'Language Server'. 11:15 Crawling dependency tree and abstract syntax tree. 12:07 Using Codeium Live. 12:34 How big of a codebase can you run this o...
Feb 09, 2024•59 min
Join Wes and Scott for a 30,000 foot, ‘soup-to-nuts’ view of web development. From choosing design tools, website styling, and programming languages, to backend infrastructure, data management, and hosting. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome! 00:21 30,000 foot view of web development 02:37 Brought to you by Sentry.io 02:55 Starting with design tools. 06:10 Code Tooling 06:22 Text Editors 09:34 Terminal 14:28 Build Tools 16:07 Browser and dev tools 18:21 Formatter and linter. 21:43 CSS (how you style your ...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr
Scott and Wes unravel the mysteries of HTMX, exploring the essentials for getting started, its powerful capabilities, limitations, and possible stacks for building primarily server rendered applications. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 02:07 Brought to you by Sentry.io 02:53 What exactly is HTMX? 04:30 What you need to know before working in HTMX. 04:35 You need a server. 05:35 You’ll most likely need a templating engine. 06:42 You most likely do not need as much client-side JS. 08:33 You don’t work in...
Feb 05, 2024•32 min
Wes and Scott talk with Jen Simmons about the latest updates to Safari, reporting bugs to Apple, understanding color in CSS, new CSS switch controls, and testing your websites in Vision Pro hardware. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:03 Brought to you by Sentry.io 01:05 Meet Jen Simmons. 03:15 Safari has been killing it lately Safari Release Notes WebKit Features in Safari 17.0 WebKit Features in Safari 17.1 WebKit Features in Safari 17.2 10:25 Wes’ cOnSpirACy about Apple and APIs 18:18 Whe...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Is the Virtual DOM Bad? Are keyboard shortcuts important? What is S3 storage? In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions. Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 01:27 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry.io 02:45 Welcome Randy, our new Producer! Randy’s YouTube 04:14 A ‘Canadian Podcast’ 04:43 Is Alpine JS or HTMX a replacement for pug or other templating libraries? 08:21 What powers the “in-app” browsers and how can we test our sites on it? Inject tracking code Tauri 13:16 A deep dive ...
Jan 31, 2024•57 min
Unveiling Svelte 5! delving into its latest features. From the impressive speed and simplicity to its compact size, discover what makes this new release so exciting. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 00:39 Syntax Is A Video Podcast! @syntaxfm on YouTube 01:52 Brought To You By Sentry.io 02:42 Svelte 5 Introduction Svelte 5 Intro 05:45 What Are Runes? 06:21 $state() 11:49 $props() Class as a rest prop 16:41 $effect() 21:17 $inspect() 23:03 What Are Snippets? 27:33 What Are Events? 30:02 Built In Functions...
Jan 29, 2024•38 min
Thomas Steiner talks with us about Project Fugu, an effort from Google to enable new classes of applications to run on the web. What is Project Fugu? What are some of Thomas’ favorite APIs to use? What is an IWA vs a PWA? And more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:52 Who is Thomas Steiner? 02:57 What is the overall goal of Project Fugu? 08:17 When might we see these APIs come to all browsers? 14:10 Do you have examples of companies pushing for an API? 18:53 What happens with the face detection API? 2...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
We’re doing a Tasty overview of Drizzle in this episode. What is Drizzle? What are different types of databases? How do you host databases? What have we built with Drizzle? And how does Drizzle handle relational data, TypeScript, querying, selects, transactions, and more! Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:50 What is Drizzle? 09:11 Different types of databases 17:58 Why pay for SQLite hosting? 20:36 Defining your data structures 24:27 What we’ve built using Drizzle...
Jan 24, 2024•54 min
It is time. Wes and Scott attempt to blow your minds by talking about time, who’s tracking time, where does time come from, what time is it in your browser vs someone else’s server, and standards around time. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:55 Thanks to Chris Enns LemonProductions.ca Chris Enns on Twitter Podcast tutorials by Chris Enns on YouTube 03:14 What is time in the browser? 06:27 What are atomic clocks? Atomic Clocks and Cloudflare 08:22 Network time 09:35 Device time 11:11 Why is time so im...
Jan 22, 2024•27 min
Wes and Scott talk with Brian LeRoux about not using a bundler, handling TypeScript, live reloading, Enhance being a meta framework, how Enhance handles CSS, his experience at AWS: Reinvent, and the state of JavaScript run times in 2024. Show Notes 00:31 Welcome 01:00 Introducing Brian Leroux 01:32 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:54 You can’t fix bugs you can’t see 03:14 Not using a bundler 05:48 Downsides of not using a bundler 11:13 What about TypeScript? 13:58 Is there a waterfall of impor...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Wes and Scott talk through server components, the difference between server components and client components, reasons to run something server side, how server components work, using forms and buttons, what they like and don’t like about it, and tips to learn more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:39 New Heights with Scott and Wes 04:33 What are React Server Components? 10:52 The difference between server components and client components Tweet: "React Server + Cli...
Jan 17, 2024•56 min
We’re kicking off 2024 by talking about productivity tips we’re using to stay focused, to do apps, calendars, focus states, and customizing our code editor. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:46 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:11 Welcome to 2024 Anxiety and Uncertainty with Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Syntax #670 01:42 Getting systems in place 03:30 Examining your current habits 08:14 Tracking habits 12:16 Neural Pathway Chain Breakers habitpath.io/waitlist STREAKS A Passwordless Future Passkeys with An...
Jan 15, 2024•33 min
Yagiz Nizipli talks about his involvement with Node.js, implementing .env, how he finds areas to improve in performance, the happy path vs the hot path, and new features coming to Node.js. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:01 Introducing Yagiz Nizipli 02:21 What is your involvement in Node.js? 03:27 Implementing .env 07:03 Why was 20,000 lines of C required? 11:00 How do you begin to find performance issues? 15:17 How do you measure improvements? 26:27 The happy path vs the hot path 27:36 Is Rspack re...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Wes and Scott answer your questions about duopoly in tech, tech stacks for creating content, switching from frontend to full stack, DSA knowledge, email HTML, and more! Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 02:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:31 Are you concerned about duopolistic companies taking over the web? 11:29 What stack do you you use for videos and sharing content? 15:02 How do you know once your ready to officially make the switch from frontend to full stack? 17:58 As someone new to tech and l...
Jan 10, 2024•52 min
CSS :has() is out in all browsers and Wes and Scott have got the top 10 reasons you should start using :has() now. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:28 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:02 Overview of :has 07:09 The anywhere selector 09:41 Previous element 12:59 Layout targetting 15:45 Form validation styling 17:51 All siblings 21:07 Quantity queries 24:19 Empty children 24:56 Nested dropdown navs 26:36 Attribute matching Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instag...
Jan 08, 2024•30 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Meyer about his start on the web, the early days of CSS, where CSS is headed, are we going to lose a browser, and more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:26 Who is Eric Meyer? 05:44 In the earliest days, what browsers supported CSS? 10:23 The current web platform test suite web-platform-tests 17:59 Are CSS features shipping faster these days? 20:45 CSS learning from preprocessors 26:24 What do you think about Tailwind and inline CSS? ...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Wes and Scott give their predictions for 2024 in JavaScript, frameworks, server-side JS, tooling, CSS, developer ecosystem, and AI tooling. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:00 Types in JS will have real movement 05:10 Temporal API will ship in 1 browser 06:38 Perf tooling gets easy for everyone to understand 07:32 CSS continues to get better where you need less JS 08:35 The year of the server in frameworks 10:32 Svelte v5 is very fast SvelteKit • Web development,...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 3 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about things to consider when printing something from your website or app including loading CSS only for printing, using units in CSS, CSS counters, creating a PDF, naming pages when printing, and more. Show Notes 00:25:15 Welcome 01:27:04 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:52:00 Examples of how Wes uses print CSS 03:42:16 Using it for invoices or receipts 05:08:24 Delivering a book as a PDF 05:42:16 How do you load CSS only for printing? 10:41:08 Us...
Jan 01, 2024•32 min
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Anna Pobletts of Passage about passkeys, how passkeys work, how to implement passkeys on your website or app, what the recommended UI is for passkeys, what happens to your passkey if you lose your phone, and more. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:36 Why do we need something like Passkeys? 03:34 What are Passkeys for? 10:04 What took us so long to get to Passkeys? 11:07 Where’s the two factor part of Passkeys? 13:08 How are Passkeys phishi...
Dec 29, 2023•56 min
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about naming things in programming, use case for generators, CSS @Layers follow up, database prefixes, generalist vs specialist, where’s the sick pick page, and more! Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 01:20 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:48 How much of programming is genuine advanced technical stuff vs just fancy complex sounding names for things? 05:10 I found a non-trivial use case for GENERATORS! 11:05 CSS @Layers follow up fro...
Dec 27, 2023•53 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the ways they improved performance on the Syntax.fm website, how they knew it was slow to begin with, and the various changes they made to caching, and loading transcripts to improve the speed of the site. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:32 Adding a database requires queries 03:32 How did we know the site was slow? 04:25 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 07:45 Changing the way transcripts are being loaded 13:41 Caching 21:16 Caching Headers Hit us ...
Dec 25, 2023•28 min
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review their 2023 predictions and see how they did on ideas like Deno getting hotter, new JS APIs, WASM, Houdini, CSS Container Queries, and more! Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:05 SSR JS sites more the norm solidjs.com Remix - Build Better Websites Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Astro 04:14 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 05:20 Types In JS? ECMAScript proposal for type s...
Dec 20, 2023•48 min
