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495

Tasty × August 10th, 2022

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

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.

#APIs #PDFs #Payments #Frameworks
Wes BosScott Tolinski
494

Hasty × August 8th, 2022

Browsers, Engines, Support and the Other Guys

Overview of major browser engines like Chromium, Gecko, WebKit and dive into lesser known mobile browsers to see if you need to support them.

#browsers #mobile #webkit #chromium
Wes BosScott Tolinski
493

Supper Club × August 5th, 2022

Supper Club × Lee Robinson on React Suspense, Server Components

Lee Robinson from Vercel discusses React Suspense, selective hydration, Next.js, and performance techniques.

#react #nextjs #performance
Wes BosScott TolinskiLee Robinson
492

Tasty × August 3rd, 2022

Our Web Dev Wish List

Scott and Wes discuss frustrations with web development and wish for better defaults and APIs.

#javascript #webdev #apis
Wes BosScott Tolinski
491

Hasty × August 1st, 2022

How to Spark your Imagination and Get Excited about Coding

Wes and Scott discuss ways to spark creativity and excitement in coding through fun side projects that serve no purpose.

#JavaScript #programming #side projects
Wes BosScott Tolinski
490

Supper Club × July 29th, 2022

Supper Club × Syed Balkhi and WordPress

Saeed Balkhi discusses growing his company AwesomeMotive from a WordPress tutorial blog into a suite of over 30 web services and software tools.

#WordPress #Blogging #SaaS
Wes BosScott TolinskiSyed Balkhi
489

Tasty × July 27th, 2022

Potluck! Node Versions, Old Man Internet, Responsive Design + MORE

Wes and Scott discuss resolving NPM errors when starting old projects, compatibility across Node versions, and specifying required versions in package.json.

#node #npm #compatibility #errors
Wes BosScott Tolinski
488

Hasty × July 25th, 2022

What is Bun? The New JS Runtime

This episode covers Bun, a new JavaScript runtime focused on performance and batteries included tools like a bundler and transpiler.

#JavaScript #Performance
Wes BosScott Tolinski
487

Supper Club × July 22nd, 2022

Supper Club × Adam Cowley and Neo4j Database

Adam Cowley from Neo4j explains graph databases, how they work, use cases, and how to query data with Cypher. He discusses how Neo4j can be used in web development.

#Databases #Neo4j
Wes BosScott TolinskiAdam Cowley
486

Tasty × July 20th, 2022

Our Code Styles

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott discuss their coding styles and preferences in JavaScript and CSS.

#JavaScript #CSS #TypeScript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
485

Hasty × July 18th, 2022

STUMP’D Interview Coding Questions

Wes and Scott play a game of Stumped, asking each other random interview questions and trying to explain the answers.

#JavaScript #HTML #CSS #Interview Prep
Wes BosScott Tolinski
484

Supper Club × July 15th, 2022

Supper Club × 70,000 Serverless Functions with Kristi Perreault of Liberty Mutual

Christy Perreault from Liberty Mutual discusses how they leverage serverless to support 5000 developers building customer-facing and internal apps. She covers Liberty Mutual's journey from on-prem to serverless, the costs savings and auto-scaling benefits, supporting developer preferences, and local development recommendations.

#serverless #aws #developers
Wes BosScott TolinskiKristi Perreault
483

Tasty × July 13th, 2022

Potluck - Peer Dependencies × Vitest × NVM and PNPM × Sprites

In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss NAS networking, Home Assistant, peer dependencies in npm, and transpilation when using Vite and Vitest.

#npm #networking #testing
Wes BosScott Tolinski
482

Hasty × July 11th, 2022

Clamp & Interpolate

Scott explains numeric clamping and interpolation, demonstrating how these techniques can help control values and create animations. He highlights the d3-interpolate library for interpolating numbers, colors, dates, and more.

#JavaScript #Animation #Math
Wes BosScott Tolinski
481

Supper Club × July 8th, 2022

Supper Club × Voice Coding with Pokey Rule

Pokey Rule discusses coding by voice with Talon instead of keyboard due to RSI, creating grammars to map voice commands to actions, and demonstrates voice coding.

#Talon #Voice Coding #RSI
Wes BosScott TolinskiPokey Rule
480

Tasty × July 6th, 2022

10 years of Speaking + Conferences

Wes and Scott discuss their experiences with conference speaking over the past 10 years, including the benefits like gaining legitimacy, improving public speaking skills, making connections, and traveling.

#speaking #conferences #connections
Wes BosScott Tolinski
479

Hasty × July 4th, 2022

CSS5 Color Functions

In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss upcoming CSS color functions that will allow developers to programmatically modify colors, including mixing colors, getting color contrasts, and altering color properties like hue, saturation, and lightness.

#CSS #Accessibility #Design
Wes BosScott Tolinski
478

Supper Club × July 1st, 2022

Supper Club × Developer Experience with Shawn Wang

In this SX dinner club episode, Sean Wang aka Swyx discusses developer experience (DX) - what it is, why it matters, how tools like React and Svelte compare, and how DevRel roles are evolving.

#react #svelte #devrel
Wes BosScott TolinskiShawn Wang
477

Tasty × June 29th, 2022

Tips for Communicating

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.

#Email #Communication #Writing #Productivity
Wes BosScott Tolinski
476

Hasty × June 27th, 2022

Browser CSS Page Transitions API aka Shared Element Transitions

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.

#webapi #animations #transitions
Wes BosScott Tolinski
475

Supper Club × June 24th, 2022

Supper Club × Authoring Browser Extensions with Tim Leland

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.

#Extensions #API #Growth
Wes BosScott TolinskiTim Leland
474

Tasty × June 22nd, 2022

Home Automation - A Look Ahead

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.

#smart home #protocols #customization
Wes BosScott Tolinski
473

Hasty × June 20th, 2022

New Viewport Units

Wes and Scott discuss new viewport units in CSS that help deal with things like the URL bar shifting on mobile browsers.

#css #mobile #viewport
Wes BosScott Tolinski
472

Supper Club × June 17th, 2022

Supper Club × Edge Functions and Deno with Eduardo Bouças of Netlify

Discussion with Eduardo Bocas from Netlify about edge functions, Deno, serverless, and more.

#serverless #edge computing #Deno
Wes BosScott TolinskiEduardo Bouças
471

Tasty × June 15th, 2022

Potluck - Headless WordPress, Databases, Regex

Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like hosting databases, learning new programming languages, fitness goals, CSS environment variables, and more.

#Programming #JavaScript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
470

Hasty × June 13th, 2022

I can has() new CSS Selector?!

Wes and Scott discuss new CSS selectors like has(), where() and is() that allow powerful new ways to select elements.

#CSS #Front End
Wes BosScott Tolinski
469

Supper Club × June 10th, 2022

Supper Club × Is No Code going to take our jobs? with Connor Finlayson

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.

#NoCode #WebDevelopment #Webflow #Airtable
Wes BosScott TolinskiConnor Finlayson
468

Tasty × June 8th, 2022

Syntax Live at Reactathon

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.

#javascript #webdev #podcast
Wes BosScott Tolinski
467

Hasty × June 6th, 2022

Stopping Malicious Actors

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.

#security #bots #spam
Wes BosScott Tolinski
466

Supper Club × June 3rd, 2022

Supper Club × Coding Burnout and Gardening with Anselm Hannemann

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.

#burnout #gardening #career change
Wes BosScott TolinskiAnselm Hannemann
465

Tasty × June 1st, 2022

Git in VS Code

Wes and Scott discuss using Git version control in VS Code, including built-in features and extensions that enhance the developer workflow.

#git #vs code
Wes BosScott Tolinski
464

Hasty × May 30th, 2022

Cache Control Headers Explained

Discussion on how cache control headers work and how they can be used to improve website performance.

#Caching #Performance #Headers
Wes BosScott Tolinski
463

Supper Club × May 27th, 2022

Supper Club × RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner

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.

#javascript #frameworks #startups
Wes BosScott TolinskiTom Preston-Werner
462

Tasty × May 25th, 2022

TypeScript Tooling Explained

Overview of the various TypeScript tooling options including type checkers, compilers, build tools, IDEs, configs, and recommendations for server-side usage.

#typescript #tooling #compilers
Wes BosScott Tolinski
461

Hasty × May 23rd, 2022

Scott’s New Office × The Levelup Lodge

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.

#Office Setup #Home Office #Productivity
Wes BosScott Tolinski
460

Supper Club × May 20th, 2022

Supper Club × Turborepo with Jared Palmer

Jared Palmer discusses Turborepo, monorepos, efficient workflows, and getting acquired by Vercel.

#Turborepo #Monorepos #Podcasts
Wes BosScott TolinskiJared Palmer
459

Tasty × May 18th, 2022

Potluck - Protestware × NoSQL × Next.js × ESM × Jest

Wes and Scott answer listener questions about Next.js, database options, build tools, protestware packages, and game development.

#Next.js #Open Source
Wes BosScott Tolinski
458

Hasty × May 16th, 2022

Why do we need Web Interop? Another Standards Body?

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.

#javascript #webdev
Wes BosScott Tolinski
457

Supper Club × May 13th, 2022

Supper Club × NX Monorepos with Victor Savkin

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.

#JavaScript #Monorepo #Build Tools
Wes BosScott TolinskiVictor Savkin
456

Tasty × May 11th, 2022

10 Nifty Browser APIs

Discussion of 10 interesting browser APIs for accessing user data and hardware like webcam, geolocation, animations, speech, and more.

#APIs #JavaScript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
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