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This episode covers the concept of local first web development, where apps work offline first and then sync data in the background. The ideals, principles, tools, and sample projects around this concept are explored.
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Discussion on writing small scripts to help coworkers and improve workflows using tools like FFmpeg, AI, and automation
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JSR is a new open source JavaScript package registry focused on modern JavaScript and TypeScript, with advanced features like publishing TypeScript directly, auto docs and types, and seamless Node compatibility.
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CJ Reynolds joins the Syntax podcast and shares his background in development, live coding, teaching, and more. They discuss his career path, interest in trying new technologies, approach to teaching and live coding, and some non-coding hobbies and interests.
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Wes recounts how the Taliban taking over Afghanistan resulted in his bos.af domain being revoked, and discusses the intricacies and risks of getting clever country code top-level domains.
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Carson Gross, creator of HTMX, discusses its origins, performance characteristics, integration with various backends, upcoming version 2, his Twitter antics, and desire for less tribalism among web developers.
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In this JavaScript and web development podcast episode, Scott and Wes discuss Sentry debugging, changes to iOS browsers, scroll and cursor event interception, accurate timers with setInterval, Chrome extension changes, and inconsistencies with JavaScript's Date API.
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Discussion on properly setting up DMARC, SPF and DKIM to ensure your transactional and marketing emails reach the inbox rather than spam.
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Alex Sexton from Stripe discusses CSP (Content Security Policy) and client side security best practices, drawing on 11 years of experience at Stripe.
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Discussion on options for self-hosting a platform as a service to avoid expensive monthly per user charges from hosted providers.
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This episode covers the new native CSS scoping feature using the @scope rule, how it works, what problems it solves, and browser support status.
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Kevin Howe from Codium discusses how their AI coding assistant works, focusing on features like fast autocomplete, code context awareness, and data privacy.
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Overview of main web development technologies by category with opinions on best options for beginners
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HTMLX is a small library for swapping out parts of your UI with responses from a server. It brings back AJAX and is not a full replacement for React.
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Jen Simmons discusses her work on web standards at Apple, the recent acceleration of Safari development, advanced color spaces in CSS, and the future of layout with CSS Grid and Masonry.
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Scott and Wes discuss their weekends, advertisers, new staff, and take listener questions on JS libraries, in app browsers, and generators.
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Covers new Svelte 5 features focused on speed, simplicity and smaller bundles including the $state, $effect and $props syntax changes.
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Google Chrome developer relations engineer Thomas Steiner discusses Project Fugu, an effort to enable any app idea to be built on the web by inventing new browser APIs like web Bluetooth, file system access, shape detection, and more.
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Podcast explaining the Drizzle ORM for interacting with databases like MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
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Discussion on how time works on computers and issues that arise when working with dates and time in JavaScript. Covers time infrastructure, standards, and new Temporal API.
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Brian Larew discusses his opinions on avoiding bundlers, using enhanced dev to build web apps, and his perspective on the AWS re:Invent conference.
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In-depth discussion on new React server components feature including server-side rendering, async data fetching, forms, suspense and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss productivity habits like tracking goals, scheduling focus time, simplifying workflows, and pushing through procrastination to build momentum.
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Yagiz Nizipli discusses Node.js performance improvements he has contributed, optimization techniques, complexities around URLs and factors enabling future TypeScript support.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions about web development tools, strategies, and concepts.
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Discussion of practical examples and use cases unlocked by the CSS :has() selector being supported across all major browsers.
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In this episode Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski interview Eric Meyer, prominent figure in web standards known for his early work developing resources for CSS. He reflects on the evolution of CSS over decades of work, from early textbook-like specs to extensive modern testing suites, and shares thoughts on popular frameworks, keeping pace with browser features, and where web tech is embedded.
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In this 2024 web development predictions episode, Scott and Wes make bold guesses about what will happen in JavaScript, frameworks, tooling, CSS, browsers, AI, and more over the next year.
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Covers using print CSS for various use cases like shipping labels and recipes. Explains how to load print CSS, use advanced features like CSS counters and @page rules, control page margins and numbering, debug print styles, and generate PDFs.
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Discussion on passkeys, a new way to login that is passwordless and phishing resistant while also improving usability. Covers what they are, how they work, benefits over passwords, and timeline for adoption.
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In this holiday potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions around topics like advanced JavaScript techniques, React, CSS layers, designing databases, and specializing as a front-end engineer.
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Scott and Wes discuss various performance issues encountered while rebuilding the Syntax site, including slow database queries, unnecessary data loading, and Open Graph image generation. They share the optimizations and tools used to diagnose bottlenecks and make improvements.
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Wes and Scott review their 2023 web development predictions from the previous year, assessing what trends and technologies ended up being hits or misses.
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Scott and Wes explain all the terminology, services, and technical pieces that make up artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Discussion on whether npm packages can be trusted and tools like socket.dev to scan packages for security issues. Also covers misuse of open source packages and peer-to-peer web technologies.
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Wes and Scott ask each other tricky web development interview questions covering topics like CSS layout, JavaScript, accessibility, and more.
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Discussion on the observer pattern, its use in game dev and JavaScript frameworks, differences from observables, and its relation to promises and streams.
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Covers new and proposed JavaScript APIs for 2024 including source maps, temporal, array methods and more.
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Discussion on using ARIA roles and labels to make web apps more accessible, including legal requirements, providing context for UI elements, and testing tools.
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Discussion with James Mikrut creator of Payload CMS about its features, architecture using Drizzle ORM, building open source sustainable products, plans to position itself as a Laravel style all-in-one platform for TypeScript web apps and more.
