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RPC in JavaScript!
Wes and Scott explain RPC and discuss its growing popularity due to server-side React, key concepts, use cases, standards, comparisons to REST, and considerations.
#RPC#JavaScript#React
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Supper Club × Privacy, Cookie Banners, GDPR with Donata and Hans Skillrud
A discussion with lawyers about the details of privacy policies, terms of service, GDPR compliance, cookie consent, and more for websites and online businesses.
#legal#privacy#GDPR
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Potluck × Crypto × SEO × Status Pages × Learning Tools
Scott talks about his new Neumann MT48 audio interface and how it will improve his podcast audio setup.
#audio#gear#podcasting
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CSS Color Functions
This episode covers practical uses of new CSS color functions like relative color, color contrast, and color mixing. Wes and Scott are excited about the possibilities enabled by modifying colors dynamically in CSS.
#CSS#Design#Accessibility
Supper Club
Supper Club × ESLint with Nicholas Zakas
Nicholas Zakas discusses creating ESLint 10 years ago, how it works, improving the config system, and why communication skills matter more as you become a senior engineer.
#JavaScript#ESLint#Open Source
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Can Vanilla CSS Replace Sass Yet?
Wes and Scott discuss whether vanilla CSS has all the features of Sass these days, going through variables, nesting, colors, looping, mixins, imports, math functions, custom functions, and BEM syntax.
#Sass#CSS#webdev
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Modals, Popups, Popovers, Lightboxes
Discussion on terminology, HTML elements, and implementation details around modal popups, dialogs, and popovers.
#html#css#javascript
Supper Club
Supper Club × Nate Weinert and Tamagui
Discussion of Tomagui - a tool that unifies React Native and web development with consistent styling. Covers React Native styling, optimizations, animations, layout, and more.
#react-native#web-dev#tomagui
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600th Episode! Major Announcement and Swag Giveaway!
Scott and Wes announce that Syntax is joining Sentry. They discuss the partnership, how it started, and what it means for the future of the podcast.
#webdev#JavaScript#podcasts
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oAuth APIs Explained
This episode explains OAuth, the standard for logging in via services like GitHub and accessing user data. OAuth uses various tokens like client ID, client secret, authorization code, access token, and refresh token.
#oauth#webdev
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Supper Club × Fabian Kägy - Modern WordPress - Blocks, Page builders, Headless, Custom Fields
A deep dive into modern WordPress development covering block editors, headless CMS, developer workflows, editing experience and more.
#WordPress#CMS
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Stump’d Gameshow! Answering Coding Interview Questions from AI
Scott and Wes play a gameshow where ChatGPT asks them web development interview questions of increasing difficulty and obscurity on topics like JavaScript, CSS, GraphQL, TypeScript, Svelte, and Deno.
#JavaScript#CSS#TypeScript#Deno
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The New Import Map Standard
Explains the new import maps standard for aliasing files and paths in JavaScript projects. Covers how to use them and browser support.
#javascript#webdev#tooling
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Supper Club × Web Components and Lit with Justin Fagnani of Google
Discussion with Justin Fagnani of Google about web components, how they work, the intent behind their creation, and how libraries like Lit integrate with them.
#web-components#lit
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Potluck × Testing Animations × Tools for Learning × Coding Related Injuries
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.
#freelancing#testing#frameworks#functions
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Coding with the Open AI / Chat GPT API
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.
#OpenAI#ChatGPT#JavaScript
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Supper Club × The Role Of UX Designers In Humanizing The Future with Travis Neilson
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.
#ai#ux#design
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Potluck × Learning Web Dev × Video Streaming × Mono Repos
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.
#career#productivity#webdev#design
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HTTPS + Tunnel Your Localhost - Cloudflare Tunnels, Ngrok, and more!
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.
#HTTPS#Tunneling#Cloudflare#ngrok
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Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad
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.
#Next.js#Serverless#AWS
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New Syntax Website Brainstorm! IRL!
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.
#Podcasts#Brainstorming
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Web Streams Explained
Wes and Scott discuss web streams, how they work, and examples of using them for performance and working with large data.
#web-streams#performance#data
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Supper Club × Digital Nomad with Eric Sartorius
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.
#digital nomad#remote work#travel
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Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?
Discussion on identifying performance issues that cause websites to be slow and potential solutions.
#Performance#Debugging#Optimization
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Node in the Browser × WebContainers + NodeBox
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.
#Node.js#JavaScript
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Supper Club × Visual Coding Languages With Steve Sewell
Steve Sewell discusses Builder.io, a visual programming tool that allows composing UIs from React components via a drag and drop interface
#No Code#React
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AI and Coding with ChatGPT
Scott and Wes discuss AI encoders like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney, including capabilities, limitations, implications, and how it will impact developers.
#ai#development#javascript
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Clean vs Sloppy Code
Discussion on establishing codebase rules and conventions to enforce clean code vs sloppy code through formatting, linting, naming conventions, documentation, and automation.
#automation#linting
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Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott
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.
#astro#webdev#frameworks
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Warp Terminal × Next Gen Terminals
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.
#Warp#Terminals#Mac
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Logging
Wes and Scott discuss the value of comprehensive logging in web development and some best practices.
#logging#debugging#visibility
Supper Club
Supper Club × Solid.js with Ryan Carniato
Ryan Carniato discusses the history and concepts behind SolidJS. Covers reactivity, signals, differences from React, web components support, and introducing Solid Start.
#solidjs#reactivity#frameworks
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Potluck × Native Web Components × JS Class Mixins × Application Secrets
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.
#javascript#webdev#smarthome
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Save us from Config File Hell
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.
#configfiles#webdev#javascript
Supper Club
Supper Club × Qwik framework from Miško Hevery, the Creator of Angular
Discussion with Mishko Hevery, creator of Angular, about his new framework Qwik and its resumability feature for improved performance without extra effort from developers.
#Qwik#React#Performance
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Converting JS to TypeScript
Scott and Wes discuss their experiences installing smart switches and converting their JavaScript code bases to TypeScript. They talk through the wiring challenges, refactoring benefits, and how TypeScript helps catch bugs.
#JavaScript#TypeScript
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Polish and Perf
Wes and Scott discuss strategies for improving performance and polish after launching a web app, from auditing network requests to optimizing images, caching, removing unnecessary code, and iteratively enhancing the user experience.
#pagespeed#perfmatters#webperf
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Supper Club × Rust In Action with Tim McNamara
This episode covers the history of Rust, how it aims to be more approachable for new developers, the steep learning curve, good introductory projects like command line utilities and games, performance and efficiency benefits, terminology like crates and cargo, and running Rust via WebAssembly.
#Rust#Performance#Beginner
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Node.js CJS → ESM
Discussion on moving from CommonJS modules to ECMAScript modules in Node.js - the benefits, challenges and steps for transitioning a project.
#ecmascript#esm#nodejs
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CSS Wishlist
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss their wishlist for future CSS features including mixins, grid row selection, range selectors, first/last selectors, fit-text, overflow control, color functions, lighten/darken colors, resize handles on divs, and overflow styles.
#css#webdev#frontend