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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 make a browser in 2022? Will there be a Windows version? And who is the target market for Arc? FireHydrant - Sponsor Incidents are hard. Managing them shouldn’t be. FireHydrant makes it easy for anyone in your organization to respond to incidents efficiently and consistently. Intuitive, guided workflows provide turn-by-turn navigation for incident response, while thoughtful prompts and powerful integrations capture all of your incident data to drive useful retros and actionable analytics. Gatsby - Sponsor Today’s episode was sponsored by Gatsby, the fastest frontend for the headless web. Gatsby is the framework of choice for content-rich sites backed by a headless CMS as its GraphQL data layer makes it straightforward to source website content from anywhere. Gatsby’s opinionated, React-based framework makes the hardest parts of building a performant website simpler. Visit Gatsby.dev/Syntax to get your first Gatsby site up in minutes and experience the speed. ⚡️ Auth0 - Sponsor Auth0 is the easiest way for developers to add authentication and secure their applications. They provides features like user management, multi-factor authentication, and you can even enable users to login with device biometrics with something like their fingerprint. Not to mention, Auth0 has SDKs for your favorite frameworks like React, Next.js, and Node/Express. Make sure to sign up for a free account and give Auth0 a try with the link below. https://a0.to/syntax Show Notes 00:34 Welcome HurshAgrawal.com @Hursh 02:53 What is Arc and why create another browser? Arc browser The browser company 05:36 What is different about Arc? 08:20 Who is the target market for Arc? 09:30 Sponsor: Auth0 10:39 How do you make a browser? 13:38 Will there be a Windows version of Arc? 15:57 Where did the CMD-T functionality come from? 19:27 Sponsor: FireHydrant 20:39 How do you build on top of the Chrome engine? 24:17 How does The Browser Company make money? 27:26 Do you mess with the user agent? 29:05 Why do you require account set up to use Arc? 32:58 Sponsor: Gatsby 33:59 How did you come up with your theming engine? 36:15 Supper Club Questions Warp Hacker News Changelog Every Ben Thompson Bundling and Unbundling 42:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Jabra speakerphone Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

23 Syys 202246min

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 determine a productive day. StoryBlok - Sponsor Storyblok is a headless component-based CMS with a real-time visual editor. It offers the flexibility for developers to craft their perfect tech stack, but it also empowers content creators to make changes independently. The result is that every team has the freedom to quickly and easily create the ideal website with limitless extensibility. Other key features include robust Storyblok SDKs and APIs, powerful internationalization options, and an eCommerce-ready platform. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 02:49 What is a productive day? 04:56 What’s an unproductive day? 07:43 Techniques for work Getting Things Done Eat That Frog Height 14:57 Weighting tasks 18:29 Pomodoro technique 20:53 Sponsor: StoryBlok 22:46 The hard schedule 29:24 Blocking out distractions Focus Self Control 32:20 Sponsor: LogRocket 33:34 Tips We Have 42:55 Sponsor: Freshbooks 43:32 Software to help get things done. Things Todoist Omnifocus Transmit Savvycal Centered Remarkable 56:21 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: USB C Female to USB Male Adapter Wes: Measuring tape Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

21 Syys 20221h 4min

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 in your way, or the greatest thing for programmers to use. Sentry - Sponsor Sentry Dex conference is a free, one-day event to share best practices, epic fails, and seasoned insights on how to improve productivity. From controlling chaotic workflows to maintaining stable code, there’s a lot that can drive a developer mad. We’re hosting DEX, the conference for developers by developers, to give us all a chance to come together and sort through that madness. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry Dex conference is a free, one-day event to share best practices, epic fails, and seasoned insights on how to improve productivity. From controlling chaotic workflows to maintaining stable code, there’s a lot that can drive a developer mad. We’re hosting DEX, the conference for developers by developers, to give us all a chance to come together and sort through that madness. Show Notes GitHub Copilot Code Whisperer 00:29 Welcome 01:12 Sponsor: Sentry 02:06 Sponsor: Sanity 03:07 GitHub Co-Pilot is now paid 05:51 Is it ethical? 08:02 Is it secure? 10:16 Is it going to take our jobs? 13:34 Is it worth it? 16:21 Does it make you dumb? 17:53 Does it get in the way? Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

19 Syys 202223min

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 much more. FireHydrant - Sponsor  Incidents are hard. Managing them shouldn’t be. FireHydrant makes it easy for anyone in your organization to respond to incidents efficiently and consistently. Intuitive, guided workflows provide turn-by-turn navigation for incident response, while thoughtful prompts and powerful integrations capture all of your incident data to drive useful retros and actionable analytics.  Did we mention that FireHydrant is free? Get started at Firehydrant.com/syntax   Show Notes @ThomasPaulMann 01:49 What is Raycast? Raycast Raycast Store 08:11 Do you have designers on your team to help guide UI? 10:13 Why build it native instead of HTML and CSS? 13:12 Why did you choose React? 21:54 How do you figure out what’s possible in system level APIs? 26:40 Snippets make use of SQLite SQLite 29:05 Encrypted local storage data 33:11 Any plans for theming for Raycast? 35:20 What is the pricing model? 37:06 What was your Y combinator experience like? Y Combinator Careers 42:08 Any plans for future features? 44:08 Supper Club questions Leopold FC660C Black 65% Dye Sub PBT Mechanical Keyboard iTerm Starship 51:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Nothing Ear Buds Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

16 Syys 202257min

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 making an API. Payments Hub - Sponsor There are hundreds of payments processing companies out there. Hit up developer.paymentshub.com/syntax to learn more about how Payments Hub Developers not only processes ecommerce and in-person payments, but also boards and underwrites your merchants in as little as 90 minutes. We are currently offering Syntax listeners who become new partners 6 months free data through our Business Reporting API! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 02:40 What are APIs? 06:09 API Standards 13:56 What about GRPC? 15:52 What is TRPC? 19:19 Sponsor: Payments Hub 20:25 API Cake Layers mySQL Postgres Mongo DB SQLite SQLizer 26:51 Server layer 33:28 Sponsor: LogRocket 34:36 Authentication layer 43:28 Caching layer 46:09 Sponsor: Freshbooks 46:38 Client layer Prisma: Package, but also a service keystone: Package Strapi: Package Sanity: Service Prismic: Service Hasura: Open Source and Service Contentful https://hygraph.com/ 48:01 Should I use x or y? 51:35 Tools GraphQL Playground Graphiql Postman Insomnia TablePlus Studio3T 56:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 00:20 Knife Talk ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Sharp Pebble Wes: Laser level Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

14 Syys 20221h 7min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about next generation CSS that you can use today with PostCSS including importing, nesting, variables, media query ranges, custom media queries, and more. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:27 Welcome 01:30 Sponsor: Prismic 02:54 Sponsor: Sentry 03:53 Do we use Post CSS? 05:22 Presets and plugins 06:19 Plugins we’re using "postcss-import" @import './elements/headings.css'; 09:48 PostCSS Nested 12:59 Variables (Custom Properties) 15:50 Media Query Ranges PostCSS Media Minmax 17:16 Custom Media Queries "postcss-media-minmax" @media screen and (width >= 500px) and (width <= 1200px) "postcss-custom-media" @custom-media --below_small (width < env(--small_bp)); @media (--above_small) {} 18:35 Env Vars "postcss-env-function" env(--small_bp) 20:12 Color Function and Color Function Notation /* color-function */ p { color: color(display-p3 1 0.5 0); color: color(display-p3 1 0.5 0 / .5); } Syntax 479: CSS Color Functions Post CSS Color Functional Notation Post CSS Preset Env Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

12 Syys 202224min

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 the kind of content he does, and why he loves Vim. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get started for free in 30 seconds, or if you want to try out the Standard tier for zero cost, use the code “TryHasura” at this link: hasura.info. We’ve also got an amazing selection of GraphQL tutorials at hasura.io/learn. Storyblok - Sponsor Storyblok is a headless component-based CMS with a real-time visual editor. It offers the flexibility for developers to craft their perfect tech stack, but it also empowers content creators to make changes independently. The result is that every team has the freedom to quickly and easily create the ideal website with limitless extensibility. Other key features include robust Storyblok SDKs and APIs, powerful internationalization options, and an eCommerce-ready platform. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:48 Guest introduction ThePrimeagen on YouTube ThePrimeagen on Twitch @ThePrimeagen on Twitter Why I Make Content 03:53 Dropping in on skateboarding Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 05:43 What do you do? 07:17 How do you plan your live streams? 10:05 Sponsor: Hasura 11:27 Do you do interactive content via OBS on stream? OBS 16:22 What languages do you use on stream? Bun Zig 22:03 What do you try to build on stream? 24:53 Sponsor: StoryBlok 25:45 Why do you use Vim? 38:42 Do you ever have to do pair programming with Vim? 40:43 What kind of hardware are you playing with? Arduino 42:52 Supper club questions Lemur Pop Kinesis Advantage 2 56:20 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

9 Syys 20221h 4min

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 uses setTimeout, and more! Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Auth0 - Sponsor Auth0 is the easiest way for developers to add authentication and secure their applications. They provides features like user management, multi-factor authentication, and you can even enable users to login with device biometrics with something like their fingerprint. Not to mention, Auth0 has SDKs for your favorite frameworks like React, Next.js, and Node/Express. Make sure to sign up for a free account and give Auth0 a try with the link below. a0.to/syntax Show Notes 00:23 Welcome 02:39 What’s the best way of comparing the efficiency of object literals created from a factory function vs objects created by new’ing a class. Perf.link 06:54 How can I always see the full signature in VS Code? 10:40 What’s your process for picking a stack when starting a project? 14:41 Sponsor: Linode 15:23 Is snapshot testing really worth it? TS QuickFixes 20:54 What are your thoughts on ISR Incremental Static Regeneration? 25:20 Is useEffect public enemy #1? Goodbye, useEffect: David Khourshid 29:02 Sponsor: LogRocket 30:17 Is there any benefit to use uses setTimeout instead of setInterval? MongoDB Prisma 37:13 HTML to PDF a great solution I use is gotenberg.dev gotenberg.dev 40:12 Although async/await might make for code that is easier to grok, I find it worse for chaining functions. Pipeline Operator proposal 45:07 How do you guys stay focused for meaningful periods of time? 48:36 How should code formatters be configured and combined? Prettier ES Lint Editor Config No-Sweat™ Eslint and Prettier Setup 51:56 What’s your opinion on the latest Sveltekit changes with load, file based routing, and more? Major Svelte Kit API Change - Fixing load, and tightening up SvelteKit’s design before 1.0 Astro Nano Store 55:53 Sponsor: Auth0 56:47 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

7 Syys 20221h 2min