Hasty
Wes and Scott discuss the value of certifications versus hands-on experience in proving competence as a web developer. They cover how the fast pace of change in web technologies makes certifications difficult, but agree certifications around specific vendor platforms may be useful.
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss Scott's meetings, dentist appointments, and play a recording from Jack Rhysider reading a story submitted by a listener about accidentally creating an exponential email storm.
Hasty
Discussion on the new Temporal date and time API proposal for JavaScript which aims to fix limitations with the existing JavaScript date API
Tasty
Developers share horror stories about mistakes that happened in web development leading to issues in production.
Hasty
Scott discusses various dynamic stretches to help alleviate common issues that developers face from poor posture and overuse, such as back pain, carpal tunnel, rounded shoulders, etc.
Hasty
Tips on communication, time management, billing and other ways to make freelancing an easier endeavor.
Tasty
Strategies for updating web apps and forcing users to get new versions, including manual refreshes, service workers, hot reloading, and visual notifications.
Tasty
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions on topics like Target blank links security, Stencil JS, senior developers, Angular careers, SVGs in React, Git workflows, and more.
Hasty
Discussion on what enums are and how they are used in various languages and systems like GraphQL, TypeScript and JavaScript
Tasty
Discussion of outdated web development tools and techniques from 10-15 years ago.
Hasty
This episode covers immutable records and tuples in JavaScript - new proposed syntax for creating objects and arrays that are deeply immutable and support deep equality checks.
Tasty
Covers Git fundamentals and basic commands
Hasty
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss the first money they made from web development, including client projects, ad revenue, product sales, teaching gigs, and agency work.
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss frameworks, tools, scoping, and writing maintainable CSS.
Hasty
Wes and Scott discuss time block planning, a productivity technique that involves scheduling all of your tasks, appointments, and breaks on a calendar to help manage your limited work hours.
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss outdated web development techniques like table layouts, clearfixes, splash screens, guestbooks, Flash, and more.
Hasty
Wes talks about converting a shed in his backyard into a home office during the pandemic
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss the recent Mozilla layoffs and impact on web development, strategies for learning web development while working a full time job, and answer audience questions on React drag and drop, testing, analytics, malicious GitHub users, and more.
Hasty
Scott and Wes wrap up season 1 of Syntax and discuss plans for season 2, favorite episodes of the year, and the top 10 most downloaded episodes so far.
Tasty
Scott and Wes answer listener questions on topics like MDX, ordering CSS properties, explaining complex code, portfolio projects for junior devs, the Sails.js framework, and using the replacer parameter in JSON.stringify().