Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Coding with the Open AI / Chat GPT API

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what can be done with the OpenAI API, how to get started with it, pricing, tuning your model, and gotcha...

Supper Club × The Role Of UX Designers In Humanizing The Future with Travis Neilson

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Travis Neilson about his work at Google, YouTube music, and where AI is at now, and whe...

Potluck × Learning Web Dev × Video Streaming × Mono Repos

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning web dev at an older age, making your apps look better, building a video ...

HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely. Sentry - Sponsor ...

Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST. Sentry - Spons...

New Syntax Website Brainstorm! IRL!

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott are in the same room together brainstorming new ideas for the Syntax.fm website: search, transcripts, video, ...

Web Streams Explained

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain the what, why, and how of web streaming, and some of the jargon you might encounter with web streams. Sent...

Supper Club × Digital Nomad with Eric Sartorius

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Sartorius about his life as a digital nomad - including recently climbing Kilimanj...

Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through all the reasons your website might be slow, and how you can troubleshoot a slow website such as ...

Node in the Browser × WebContainers + NodeBox

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about two new services that allow you to run Node in the browser, WebContainers + NodeBox. Why Node in the bro...

Supper Club × Visual Coding Languages With Steve Sewell

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Sewell about Builder.io, Qwik, Partytown, and the tricks and tips he’s learned ...

AI and Coding with ChatGPT

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the current landscape of AI, how AI is trained, is AI going to take your job, who’s going to tra...

Clean vs Sloppy Code

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to...

Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How d...

Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why they’re digging Warp as their terminal app of choice, what the terminal is, and some of thei...

Logging

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps a...

Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Carniato about Solid.JS, SolidStart, how web components work with Solid, why he ch...

Potluck × Native Web Components × JS Class Mixins × Application Secrets

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript f...

Save us from Config File Hell

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what you can do to better organize your config files. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 02:20 Electric car s...

Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Miško Hevery about why developers should check out Qwik, the benefits of lazy loading,...

Converting JS to TypeScript

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their respective processes for converting JavaScript to TypeScript in their projects, why you migh...

Polish and Perf

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through quick tips to improve performance of your website, and the tools available to help diagnose and fix pe...

Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning ...

570

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to kno...

CSS Wishlist

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, ov...

Supper Club × Caleb Porzio

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, Typ...

We React to State of JS 2022

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022. Show Notes State of JS 2022 00:26 Welco...

Container Queries Explained

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with containe...

Supper Club × Simen Svale Skogsrud and Espen Hovlandsdal from Sanity

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake...

Potluck × JS Modules × HTML Tags × Recession × Budgeting

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs s...

Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs...

Katherine Mello on Liberal Arts → Coding, Bootcamps, and Sustainability

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, ...

2023 Goals × Learning and Doing

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness...

TypeScript Fundamentals × Satisfies and as const

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Satisfies and as const. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Xmas recap Peloton 04:09 Satisfies and ...

Supper Club × Sarah Drasner on Engineering Management

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’...

Our Predictions for 2023

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their predictions in web development for 2023. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:25 SSR JS sites mo...

TypeScript Fundamentals × Type Narrowing, Guards, and Predicates

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some TypeScript Fundamentals around type narrowing, type guards, and type predicates. Show Note...

Supper Club × Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kilian Valkhof about his work on Polypane, a browser for developers. How is Polypane bu...

Were We Wrong? 2022 Predictions Revisited

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott revisit their 2022 predictions and see which ones they got right, and which they got wrong. Sentry - Sponsor...

554: Desktop apps in JS × Electron and Tauri

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know...

553: Supper Club × Switching into Coding and climbing the Pommade ladder with Kenneth Lyerly

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kenneth Lyerly about his career path into coding, and how he manages to hold two jobs. ...

552: Potluck × Twitter Thoughts × Business Models × Senior Developer

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about how to give feedback on the podcast, deciding on a business model for cou...

“Serverless” Databases

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for database when you’re working with serverless. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a ...

Supper Club × React Video Creator with Jonny Burger

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jonny Burger about why and how he built Remotion, his app that lets you create MP4 vide...

JavaScript in 2022

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look at the the Web Almanac’s report on the role of JavaScript on the web in 2022. Auth0 - Sponsor Auth0 ...

Rendering Methods Explained

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through the various rendering methods in use today and the pros / cons of each. Sentry - Sponsor If you want ...

Supper Club × Coding at Disney with Vu Le

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Vu Le about his path to working at Disney. How did he learn to code? How do you get a j...

Code Styles: Readable Rules and Petty Preferences

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their preferred coding styles and preferences they use, and why. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’...

GitHub Next Projects

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about new features coming to GitHub including Hey, GitHub!, GitHub Blocks, GitHub Copilot CLI, and more! Lino...

Supper Club × Bun with Jared Sumner

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jared Sumner about why and how he created Bun, what Zig is, and the future of Bun. Tup...

Potluck × Twitter Following × TypeScript × Playwright

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about strategies to find good Twitter follows, should we use TypeScript for a c...

Serverless Limitations

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some of the limitations of using serverless in your project. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to kn...

Supper Club × Anything But Coding with Wes and Scott

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Scott and Wes! Talking about BBQ, electric cars, workout equipment, home renos - but th...

Responsive Design Techniques

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some modern responsive design techniques that you may not have heard of, or haven’t had a chan...

React use() hook and Async Server Components Proposal

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the new proposal for React, what the basics of it are, why it’s being proposed, and some benefits and ...

Supper Club × Ryan Dahl and Deno

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Dahl about Deno. Why was Deno created? What is Deno written in? How is Deno so muc...

CSS Trends Almanac for 2022 Part 2

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, it’s part 2 of Wes and Scott’s journey through the CSS Trends Almanac for 2022 talking through the rest of the popular ...

Short Form Content with Tiktok, Reels, Shorts, Tweets

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about creating short form content for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and tweets. What are some of the benefits and lim...

Supper Club × Open Table LIVE SHOW

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott recorded a live open table episode with guests calling in to talk about Wasm, building Riverside....

Potluck × Meeting IRL × SSG vs SSR × Domain Privacy

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about meeting IRL, bookmarks, SSG vs SSR, domain privacy, deploying monorepos, ...

Zod Schema Validation and Type Generation

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Zod, a TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference. How are we using Zod? What do we l...

Supper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about ADHD, how to tell if you have ADHD, issues related to ADHD ...

Spooky Web Dev Stories Part 2

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell more of your scary web dev stories including lorem ipsum mistakes, naming something Skynet, blackouts, T...

Explained - Buzz Words and Concepts

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain more buzz words like schema, promises, async, sync, dom vs shadow dom vs page HTML, props, and more. Appwr...

Supper Club × GraphQL as an Aggregation Layer with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Filipe Ferreira of Sky TV about the tech stack used to deliver streaming TV content, bu...

Spooky Web Dev Stories 2022

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell your spookiest scary web dev stories including spooky render times, push notification hell, dark Friday,...

Hydration & New Frameworks Like Qwik

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Qwik, a new framework designed for the edge. How are things like hydration, lazy loading, rendering, and...

Supper Club × tRPC With Alex KATT Johansson

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Scott talks with Alex Johansson about his work on tRPC, how it compares to other tools like GraphQL, and what’...

2022 CSS Trends and Usage Web Almanac

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about some of the CSS Trends and Usage for 2022 as documented by the Web Almanac - and give some great c...

Bookmarklets

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes take Matt Busche’s suggestion and talk all about bookmarklets and scripts to modify or manipulate web pages. Mag...

Supper Club × Neovim, Lua, RPC and Twitch with TJ DeVries

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with TJ DeVries about his work on Neovim, programming in Lua, the benefits of RPC, live stre...

Use The Platform!

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits of sticking to the web platform that is available to you through APIs you may not kno...

Syntactic Sugar, Declarative and First Class Citizens? What does that even mean?

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what the jargon you hear in JavaScript means. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with...

Supper Club × ORMs with Nikolas Burk from Prisma

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nikolas Burk from Prisma about the role an ORM plays in a tech stack, how Prisma has ch...

Potluck - Using Emoji in Naming × Project Estimates × Goal Planning

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about whether you should use emoji in naming grid elements, how to estimate project tim...

How to Get Past the Blahs and Finish Your Project

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the ways they get unstuck when working on the last bit of a project to help push it over the finish line...

Supper Club × Open Sauced With bdougie

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with bdougie about his work on Open Sauced, thoughts on getting into open source development...

Wes’ New Soundproof Office

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes talks through all the gear, renovations, and upgrades he’s made to his new home office. Lighting, soundproofing, desk...

WTF Is Enhance Framework?

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about a new framework called Enhance. What is Enhance and how does it differ from other new frameworks like As...

Supper Club × Arc Browser with Hursh Agrawal

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Hursh Agrawal of The Browser Company about Scott’s favorite browser, Arc. How do you ...

The Productivity Episode

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what they do to get things done - apps for to do list tracking, calendar blocking, and how they ...

AI and Coding - Is Github Co-Pilot Worth It?

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk all about GitHub Co-Pilot and whether it’s ethical, secure, worth it, gonna make you dumb, just going to get...

Supper Club × Raycast with Thomas Mann

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Thomas Mann about Raycast - an app that can replace Spotlight on your Mac, and do so mu...

How To Build an API in 2022

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what APIs are, the API standards that exist, and walk through the various layers of what goes into...

Use Next-gen CSS Today (Post CSS Configs)

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about next generation CSS that you can use today with PostCSS including importing, nesting, variables, media q...

Supper Club × The Primeagan - Vim, Streaming, Rust, all Around Interesting Guy

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with The Primeagan about his streaming set up, how he decides what to stream, why he makes t...

Potluck - How to Pick a Tech Stack × useEffect × setTimeout × Staying Focused

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about picking the right tech stack, whether useEffect is still useful, benefit to use u...

Big Deno Changes

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the changes announced by Deno and their thoughts on the changes. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re wor...

Supper Club × Steve Ruiz Building a Drawing App

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Ruiz about how he built tldraw, how he manages state, what was done to support mo...

Syntax Highlight

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the websites you’ve submitted including Ruben Oliveira, Adam Collier, Consolecmnd, Brad Preston, and...

Margins

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about margins. There are a lot of techniques for dealing with margins - padding instead of margin, only margin...

Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-service with Brandon Roberts

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brandon Roberts about Appwrite, how Appwrite works, who it’s for, as well as his thou...

Fundamentals - Web Workers and Service Workers

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the fundamentals of web workers and service workers - examples, when you should use them, how to...

Episode 500!

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the past 499 episodes of Syntax, what have been the most downloaded episodes, their favorite episodes, a...

Supper Club × Rich Harris, Author of Svelte

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the author of Svelte, Rich Harris, about what influenced the creation of Svelte, his th...

Job Types Agency, Tech, Startup, Entrepreneur VS Tech company VS In House

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about their thoughts on the different types of tech jobs you can get, and the pros and cons of each style of j...

CSS Proposals @when, CSS Masonry, Carets

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about proposals to CSS including @when, CSS Masonry, CSS Caret, ENV Vars, and Media Query Ranges. Sentr...

Supper Club × Headless Ecommerce with Shopify’s Josh Larson

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Josh Larson from Shopify about headless ecommerce, including Hydrogen from Shopify, how...

Potluck - API Fetching × PDF Creation × tRPC × Stripe vs PayPal

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about middleman for API fetching, when to introduce SvelteKit, generating PDFs ...

Browsers, Engines, Support and the Other Guys

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the various web browers that might show up in your analytics and whether you need to worry about support...