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Spooky Web Dev Stories 2022
Scott and Wes share cringey, scary stories submitted by developers about mistakes they've made in production that caused big problems.
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Scott and Wes share cringey, scary stories submitted by developers about mistakes they've made in production that caused big problems.
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This episode discusses Quick, a new web development framework created by the inventor of Angular that eliminates hydration by serializing state to HTML. It also covers topics like JSX, SSR, edge functions, and more.
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Alex Johansen discusses tRPC, an alternative to REST and GraphQL for calling functions between client and server using TypeScript for type safety.
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Scott and Wes discuss mobile vs desktop usage based on stats from the Web Almanac report, cleaning tips, sponsors, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss bookmarklets - JavaScript snippets that run on any page when clicked. They explain what bookmarklets are, how to use them, and share examples.
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TJ DeVries discusses Neovim, Lua integration, and the difference between Neovim and Vim.
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Wes and Scott discuss using browser APIs and vanilla JavaScript instead of frameworks and libraries.
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Scott and Wes explain common JavaScript jargon like syntactic sugar, declarative programming, and more.
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Nicholas Burke from Prisma discusses the evolution of Prisma from Graphcool to Prisma 1 to Prisma today, which is now a general purpose ORM.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions about using emoji in CSS, estimating project timelines, going to football games, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss tips for pushing through the last 10% of a project when you get project blahs and start to lose motivation.
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Scott and Wes interview Brian Douglas about his background in engineering and open source and his project Open Sauce to make open source more approachable. They also discuss GitHub's GraphQL API and Brian's experience with live streaming.
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Wes details building his new soundproof basement office from scratch including framing, wiring, soundproofing materials and tradeoffs.
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A new HTML framework called Enhance JS that uses web standards and provides lightweight components, file-based routing, server-side rendering, and easy to write components.
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Hirsch Agarwal discusses founding the Arc browser company, focusing on reinventing the browser UI/UX, building with Swift, designing for delight, and planning for subscriptions without compromising user experience.
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Scott and Wes discuss productivity techniques like the Getting Things Done system and Pomodoro technique, as well as tips for managing tasks, prioritizing work, and making time for creative exploration.
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Discussion of GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools - how they work, concerns, pricing, and whether they help or hurt developers.
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Discussion with Thomas from Raycast about building the productivity app and its native architecture, React-based extension API, and local storage using SQLite.
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This podcast episode provides a comprehensive overview of building a web API, covering topics like the various layers and components involved, popular API types like REST and GraphQL, authentication and permissions, caching, database options, and more.
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This episode covers using PostCSS to write next generation CSS today including topics like postcss plugins, imports, nesting, custom media queries, env vars, and color functions.
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Scott and Wes interview Primogen, a Twitch streamer and Vim user who talks about where his name comes from, the different types of coding streamers, and why people watch live coding.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions on object creation performance, VSCode types, standing desks, and more.
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Deno has announced compatibility with Node and NPM, making it easier to use existing packages. They also have the fastest JS web server and good TypeScript support, so Node may fall behind.
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Steve Ruiz discusses the development of his open source React drawing canvas TLDraw, explaining the inspiration and technology behind it.
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Wes and Scott discuss the first day of kindergarten, setting up Wes' new office, soundproofing with acoustic panels, and then transition to reviewing developer portfolios.
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Discussion of various techniques for handling margins and layout in CSS including collapsing margins, padding vs margins, flexbox, grid, and using spacer divs.
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Brandon Roberts discusses AppRight, an open source self-hosted backend for web and mobile apps. It provides database, auth, storage, functions and more out of the box.
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In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss the differences between public and private schools in Denver and the challenges of getting kids into preferred schools. They then provide an overview of threads, concurrency and parallelism in programming languages and how JavaScript only has a single thread. They use examples like green screening webcams to demonstrate when you may need to offload work to other threads using web workers.
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Scott and Wes celebrate 500 episodes by looking back at milestones, favorite moments and episodes, and answering listener questions.
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In this episode, Rich Harrison provides an intro to Svelte and discusses its developer experience benefits, templating language, immutability, compilation process, lack of virtual DOM, and more.
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Scott and Wes discuss the pros and cons of different web development jobs like agencies, tech companies, startups and freelancing.
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In this episode Scott and Wes discuss upcoming CSS proposals like at win/else, masonry layout, caret styling, nesting, env variables, and improvements to media queries.
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Josh Larson from Shopify discusses their new Hydrogen framework for building custom headless ecommerce stores using React and Shopify. He covers topics like server side rendering, React Server Components, and deploying the same code to multiple JavaScript environments.
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In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer developer questions on topics like caching slow APIs, generating PDFs from HTML, whether to learn SvelteKit before it hits v1, and more.
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Overview of major browser engines like Chromium, Gecko, WebKit and dive into lesser known mobile browsers to see if you need to support them.
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Lee Robinson from Vercel discusses React Suspense, selective hydration, Next.js, and performance techniques.
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Scott and Wes discuss frustrations with web development and wish for better defaults and APIs.
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Wes and Scott discuss ways to spark creativity and excitement in coding through fun side projects that serve no purpose.
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Saeed Balkhi discusses growing his company AwesomeMotive from a WordPress tutorial blog into a suite of over 30 web services and software tools.
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Wes and Scott discuss resolving NPM errors when starting old projects, compatibility across Node versions, and specifying required versions in package.json.