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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions about freelancing tips, testing animations, choosing frameworks, writing small functions, learning strategies, and using CSS grid.
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Scott and Wes discuss how to work with the OpenAI API and ChatGPT in JavaScript. They go over the different APIs available, pricing, token limits, prompt tuning, and share tips for saving money.
Supper Club
Travis Nielsen joins to discuss his perspective on AI tools as a designer and creator, including the importance of treating AI tools like collaborators, keeping the human element in interfaces, articulating ideas effectively, and customizing models to your needs and priorities.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes discuss topics like switching careers, writing code quickly, learning web development with limited time, improving web design skills, and whether you really need to use a single page application.
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Discussion on using HTTPS and tunneling services like Cloudflare Tunnel and ngrok to securely expose a local dev server and allow outside traffic for testing.
Supper Club
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski talk with Dax Raad about modern hosting platforms and serverless technology, including using Next.js with Vercel vs self-hosting on AWS, Cloudflare's edge platform, and optimizing costs with thoughtful architecture.
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In this fun IRL episode, Wes and Scott brainstorm creative ideas for improving the Syntax podcast website, including search, transcripts, video components, surfacing old content, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss web streams, how they work, and examples of using them for performance and working with large data.
Supper Club
Scott and Wes interview Eric Sartorius, a developer and digital nomad who has traveled the world while working full time as a freelancer and mentor.
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Discussion on identifying performance issues that cause websites to be slow and potential solutions.
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Discussion on running Node.js in the browser via web containers and Nodebox, enabling server-side code in the browser for demos, tutorials and interactivity.
Supper Club
Steve Sewell discusses Builder.io, a visual programming tool that allows composing UIs from React components via a drag and drop interface
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Scott and Wes discuss AI encoders like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney, including capabilities, limitations, implications, and how it will impact developers.
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Discussion on establishing codebase rules and conventions to enforce clean code vs sloppy code through formatting, linting, naming conventions, documentation, and automation.
Supper Club
Fred Schott discusses Astro 2.0, a framework for content-focused sites that defaults to HTML with interactive JS islands. Covers use cases, routing, markdown support, edge runtimes and top-level data fetching.
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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes provide an overview of the new Warp terminal for Mac, discussing its features, benefits over traditional terminals, and technology behind it.
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Wes and Scott discuss the value of comprehensive logging in web development and some best practices.
Supper Club
Ryan Carniato discusses the history and concepts behind SolidJS. Covers reactivity, signals, differences from React, web components support, and introducing Solid Start.
Tasty
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer submitted listener questions on topics like setting up a smart home, using web components, JavaScript mixins, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss config files in web development projects - how they are necessary but can clutter your codebase. They talk through different formats like JSON, JavaScript and YAML, tools to hide/organize them, and ideas for standardization.