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Communication tips for email, meetings, code reviews, spanning topics like numbering questions, bolding important parts, using paragraphs, and recognizing when you're asking a lot.
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Discussion of a new browser API proposal for smooth page transitions on the web, allowing for animated transitions between pages similar to native mobile apps.
Supper Club
Discussion with Tim Leland who has built several successful browser extensions like a weather extension using Dark Sky and a URL shortener called t.ly. He talks about how he builds and monetizes the extensions.
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An overview of home automation protocols, software options like Homebridge, how it leads to family buy-in, and the ways automation can improve upon analog problems.
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Wes and Scott discuss new viewport units in CSS that help deal with things like the URL bar shifting on mobile browsers.
Supper Club
Discussion with Eduardo Bocas from Netlify about edge functions, Deno, serverless, and more.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like hosting databases, learning new programming languages, fitness goals, CSS environment variables, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss new CSS selectors like has(), where() and is() that allow powerful new ways to select elements.
Supper Club
Connor Finlayson discusses the no code movement, whether it will replace developers, popular no code tools like Webflow and Airtable, resources for learning, and advice for beginners.
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski host a live podcast episode from Reactathon, featuring debates, old code, syntax errors, JS or NAS, and audience Q&A.
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss ways that malicious actors can abuse your web application, and different techniques to prevent abuse like rate limiting, shadow banning, tokens, CAPTCHA, and more.
Supper Club
Wes and Scott talk with Anselm Hannemann about how he transitioned from web developer to gardener to avoid burnout, the joys of growing your own food, and tips for avoiding burnout in the tech industry.
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Wes and Scott discuss using Git version control in VS Code, including built-in features and extensions that enhance the developer workflow.
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Discussion on how cache control headers work and how they can be used to improve website performance.
Supper Club
Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, discusses his work on RedwoodJS, an opinionated fullstack JS framework to help developers build and scale web apps faster.
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Overview of the various TypeScript tooling options including type checkers, compilers, build tools, IDEs, configs, and recommendations for server-side usage.
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In this episode, Scott gives a tour of his home office setup called the LevelUp Lodge, going over all the gear, lighting, audio equipment, tech and other elements that make it an ideal workspace.
Supper Club
Jared Palmer discusses Turborepo, monorepos, efficient workflows, and getting acquired by Vercel.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions about Next.js, database options, build tools, protestware packages, and game development.
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Wes and Scott discuss a new initiative by Cloudflare and others to improve web interoperability across various JavaScript runtime environments like browsers, Node.js and edge functions.
Supper Club
Victor Savkin discusses NX, a development environment and build system designed for monorepos. He covers the core orchestration features, optional plugins, caching, distribution, migrations, and more.
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Discussion of 10 interesting browser APIs for accessing user data and hardware like webcam, geolocation, animations, speech, and more.
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An episode discussing TypeScript fundamentals like type narrowing, discriminated unions, and strategies for type guards.
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Discussion on what edge computing is, how it works, use cases, upsides and downsides.
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Wes and Scott discuss why developers still use the Axios library instead of the native fetch API for network requests in JavaScript. They go over various features like interceptors, progress events, and adapters that make Axios powerful.
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Wes and Scott quiz each other on random JavaScript interview questions and discuss techniques and concepts like weak maps, promises, and variable swapping.
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Scott and Wes discuss strategies and challenges around building custom coupon logic and engines for ecommerce sites and course platforms. They share tips on implementing constraints, conditional rules, tracking, expiration, and more.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions about working on a development team, dealing with imposter syndrome, using icon libraries, fixing broken service workers, building fullstack apps in Next.js, when to move a project to production, and dealing with bad clients.
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Scott discusses generating 3D visualizations, animations, and physics simulations in the browser using Svelte Cubed and Three.js.
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In this episode of Syntax, Scott talks about his new Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric vehicle and its features. Wes and Scott also answer listener questions about adding interactivity to a Drupal site and whether presentational React components can be non-leaf components.
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Wes and Scott share tips for maintaining consistency with producing content, coding projects, exercising, and other life goals. They discuss the importance of committing to a reasonable schedule, planning time to work on goals, being accountable to others, breaking big tasks down, and measuring progress.
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In this Making Content × What is our Process? episode, Wes and Scott share their strategies for developing ideas and structuring content across mediums like YouTube, conferences, courses, blogs, and podcasts.
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Discussion on new proposal to add optional TypeScript-style types to JavaScript for improved developer experience.
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Wes and Scott review developer portfolio sites, providing feedback on design, user experience, and accessibility.
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Scott and Wes discuss Vitest, a new fast and modern JavaScript test runner that aims to replace Jest. They cover Vitest's features like built-in TypeScript support, compatibility with Jest, mocking, filtering, snapshots, code coverage, DOM mocking, in-file testing, and easy setup.
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Wes Boss and Scott Tolinski explain and compare the tech stacks they use for their online course platforms, which have changed over the years but accomplish similar goals in different ways.
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Discussion on moving hosting to Render and using Cloudflare's proxy service with auto-generated SSL certificates.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions submitted on a variety of web development topics including authentication, motivation, tools, and favorite products.
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Explains the differences between server side rendering, Jamstack, and serverless web development approaches.
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Wes and Scott discuss the results of the 2021 State of JS survey covering topics like languages, testing, pain points and more.