Syntax Highlight

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, overflown, and more. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:09 Snow skate update 03:01 Mixins 05:06 Range selector 09:36 :first-of-column :last-of:column / row Ability to target items in nth-row of autofilled, implicit grid 11:43 Fit Text 13:34 Overflow-x, overflow-y control 15:36 Full support for CSS with Inline Styles 16:24 nth-of-found() 18:18 Robust Color functions 22:19 resize: both but no overflow or scroll 23:39 Animate height auto 23:57 Full attr() support 25:07 CSS References CSS References 26:59 overflown + :stuck 28:56 Multi-line selectors 30:35 Container Queries - select the container itself 32:04 :is-scrolled - select a container when it’s scrolled 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

30 Tammi 202335min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Buffalo and Canada History of Target in Canada 06:23 Who is Caleb Porzio? @CalebPorzio on Twitter 09:26 What is Livewire? Livewire Alpine.js HotWired 12:58 Are these MVC frameworks? 18:11 What is the process behind the scenes? 20:36 How does Hotwire handle rendering? 25:38 What is Alpine.js? 33:19 Why are PHP devs making interesting things? Laravel Tailwind 40:32 What is a nextTick in JavaScript? Microtask Guide 46:20 TypeScript thoughts 48:05 Server side rendering? Morph 49:25 Supper Club questions Ergodox Keyboards Glove 80 Keyboards Natty Theme MonoLisa 59:40 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ugmonk Analog Shameless Plugs Make VS Code Awesome Alpine.js Livewire 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

27 Tammi 20231h 5min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022. Show Notes State of JS 2022 00:26 Welcome 01:24 Thoughts on the survey in general 04:24 Country of origin 05:53 Salaries 08:14 Higher education 08:58 JavaScript features 15:41 Browser APIs 21:15 Library Usage 26:11 Interest in frontend frameworks 28:40 Framework usage 31:41 Rendering frameworks 34:57 Build tools usage over time 39:37 Monorepo tools Moon 46:41 Backend frameworks Civet 47:42 JavaScript run times 51:01 TypeScript JavaScript balance 52:17 JavaScript flavors 57:03 Resources Fireship Dev 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

25 Tammi 20231h 11min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries. Show Notes 00:28 Welcome 01:46 What are Container Queries? Tweet about Container Queries 03:28 Use cases for Container Queries Home Assistant Can I Use? 06:11 The syntax of container queries 13:42 New units 22:27 Old iOS versions may cause issues 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 Tammi 202325min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity? 04:04 What kinds of services use Sanity? 06:18 What is a content lake? 07:26 Enabling code access to Sanity Studio 13:12 Implenting Sanity into a React app 14:49 What is GROQ? 21:04 Is GraphQL still the best way to query data? 25:32 Workflows in Sanity 27:48 What is portable text? 35:19 How does Sanity work with TypeScript? 38:51 Ecommerce options with Sanity 41:29 Supper club questions 50:33 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Syntax 533 - Zod Schema Elden Ring Risk of Rain Sharp Syntax 526 - Supper Club with on TRPC ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Espen bread Medium Tall Shameless Plugs Sanity Syntax code 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

20 Tammi 202354min

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs software engineer, taking payments, and more. Show Notes 00:11:11 Welcome 01:29:11 When should you use article and section in HTML? 08:03:08 Does your business suffer from the economic recession? 15:47:18 How do you manage your money or budget? PlainTextAccounting YNAB Copilot 20:51:11 What should I consider using? There’s a lot of options. CommonJS, AMD, UMD, es modules? 26:30:09 What’s the difference between a software developer and software engineer? 30:36:11 How do you handle payment for your course platforms? Braintree Gumroad Paddle Stripe 38:33:23 Why is this false? “I’m a string” instanceof String 40:38:22 Do you all use Mac spaces for organizing windows? Arc 45:55:21 Do you have any tips that would help my front end team avoid rendering a DOM with invalid element nesting? 48:48:14 Would you do an episode commenting on the CSS Nesting survey released this week? Help Choose CSS Nesting Syntax 53:57:01 How do you guys go about prioritizing your work? Height.app Things 58:50:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Bundle of Eucalyptus Wes: Recycling bin brackets 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

18 Tammi 20231h 4min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 03:19 Buying vs building topic 07:09 Strategy 09:50 Escapability 14:56 Services You Could Use Sentry Postmark 16:34 Efficiency of using a service 18:08 Cron jobs 20:43 Checkout Recurly Lemon Squeezy Stripe Braintree 24:29 Hosting 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images Cloudinary Vercel OG Puppeteer 29:25 Search Algolia Elastic MongoDB 33:32 Auth PasswordJS 36:55 Images 39:46 Video Hosting Vimeo Mux Amazon Kinesis 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 Tammi 202344min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, data visualization, and coding for a sustainable focused company. Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:10 Guest introduction Rolling With Kat 03:05 Bag milk? 04:34 What is Tangible Materials? Tangible Materials 07:27 How did you end up at Tangible? Full Stack Academy 10:05 Are bootcamps worth it? 14:46 How important were in person classes to you? All We Can Save Braiding Sweetgrass 20:46 What do you enjoy about data visualization? D3 Data visualization society Three.js Observable Color Wheel 27:21 Working at WeWork WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn • Official Trailer 34:14 What is your tech stack at Tangible? 38:26 What backend would Wes use for a project? Svelte Kit Supabase Super Bass 42:10 Is there environmental web hosting? 43:47 Supper Club Questions Uplift Desks 50:22 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Climavores Shameless Plugs Drinking from the Garden Hose Hiring at Tangible Materials 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

13 Tammi 202356min