Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Darcy Clarke about his career path in tech, working with Wes back in the day, why he decided to build vlt volt, and the biggest sick pick list yet! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:38 Building a tweet wall back in the day 08:54 How did you land at npm? npm 19:40 Why do we need another package manager and registry? 22:11 What is vlt volt? vlt: a new home for open source vlt /vōlt/ (@vltpkg) / X Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson Bun Yarn Nx 27:18 Do you see a future where we don’t pre-compile before shipping? 29:32 Why would pnpm be faster than npm? 31:14 What are the problems with symlinking? 33:08 What’s happening with Yarn? Verdaccio Cloudsmith jfrong Sonatype socket.dev Snyk.io Dependency Confusion 37:42 What do you think about config files? antfu Config of File Nesting for VS Code The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem WebTorrent 41:02 VS Code tip - file nesting patterns 41:59 How does on-prem registry work? 47:29 Where does Socket.dev and Snyk security fit? 52:46 Sick Picks 04:41 How did you get vlt.sh? 05:30 How did you get @Darcy? Sick Picks Flat Coat Goldendoodle Scientific American Nespresso BlackBerry (2023) - IMDb BlackBerry (2023) Letterboxd Matthias Wandel Blink-182 Official Site Moneen Bring Me The Horizon Shameless Plugs vlt: a new home for open source Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

3 Marras 20231h 9min

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about hosting NextJS, spicy sidedishes, putting forms in modern websites, why is everyone abandoning TypeScript, CSS Survey follow up, do devs need to be into CSS, and more! Show Notes 00:10 How to submit a question to Syntax Syntax Potluck Listener Questions 00:45 Syntax meet up in Toronto 02:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:36 Vendor lock in with NextJS? Next.js by Vercel Vercel SST Supper Club × Next.js on AWS + Serverless with Dax Raad — Syntax Podcast 589 Cloudflare Pages Netlify Open source Next.js serverless adapter 09:48 🌶️ Spicy Sidedish: Stop calling Firefox the new IE Jen Simmons 16:40 Can you compare Database as a service and provide your recommendation and suggestions? “Serverless” Databases — Syntax Podcast 551 PlanetScale Firebase 20:00 How do I do native forms outside of CMS like WordPress? Builder.io 28:01 Why have Svelte and Turbo abandoned Typescript? 32:17 Why are companies hesitant to migrate to Next? 33:36 Is React Native dead? 38:33 Do I use the keyword “new” when throwing an Error or not? 41:59 touch-action use case Announcing Quina Quina - Menu Announcing Hondo Hondo - a word game in 100 words or less 42:57 Subgrid and the :has selector usage 46:02 Is it okay to be a front end developer and not be as interested in CSS? Tool Academy (American TV series) 51:12 Could you explain what are workers, processes, jobs, tasks, and deamons? 56:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Infamous International: The Pink Panthers Story Wes: PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells For Home Gym & Commercial Use Syntax episode 3 Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on TikTok 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

1 Marras 20231h

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the secret sauce that’s going into the creation of the new Syntax.fm website including the styling, search, tooling, database, hosting, and more. Show Notes 00:21:15 Welcome 01:10:11 Where did the name “Secret Sauce” come from? 03:16:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 04:32:11 What Syntax.fm is built in? SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined muxinc/media-chrome: Custom elements (web components) for making audio and video player controls that look great in your website or app. Media Chrome Docs 07:24:01 How we’re doing search flexsearch - npm 12:22:20 Styling Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter PostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript 16:00:05 Tooling Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm 18:55:11 Database Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript 21:11:11 Services Deepgram OpenAI Anthropic \ Introducing Claude 24:34:11 Hosting Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

30 Loka 202328min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jason Lengstorf about his journey in video creation, live streaming, and tech education. What’s up with Jason’s new studio? How does he prep for a live stream? Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 02:21 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:39 Who is Jason Lengstorf? 05:43 Why did you decide to go full time on Learn with Jason? 10:04 Jason’s new YouTube series idea 13:36 Jason gets a special delivery 14:30 What’s in Jason’s new studio? 20:14 What’s the ideal medium for content in 2023? 24:28 Treat decisions as forever, for now. 26:01 Is live streaming as difficult to get into as it seems? 29:21 How do you prepare for a live stream? 32:58 How do you decide what to create? 38:23 How do you feel about React? 40:21 What are your thoughts on AI? 49:08 Supper Club questions 56:25 Sick Picks Sarah Drasner’s Site Animation With Svelte (with Scott Tolinski) — Learn With Jason Gatsby Netlify Jessica Kobeissi ANDREW HUANG Theo Browne Cassidy Williams Bytes - The Best JavaScript Newsletter ZSA Moonlander: ErgoDox EZ Operator Fonts Night Owl SyntaxFM by SyntaxFM MD IO ILME-FX3 | Interchangeable-lens Cameras FE 24-70 mm F2.8 GM Sick Picks Synergy - Share one mouse & keyboard across computers Shameless Plugs LearnWithJason.dev: Learn. Build. Grow. Together. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

27 Loka 202358min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott relate even more spooky listener submitted coding horrors including crypto copy paste, Big Brother bug, losing $50,000, 2,000 SMS, a $20,000 hour, and more. Show Notes 00:09 Velcome to Synax 01:09 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:36 Stories are anonymous! 01:57 Crypto copy + paste 03:48 Big Brother Bug 07:00 One of 6 laptops that can fix npm 07:57 Auto-submitting payments 09:42 40,000 orders shipped and refunded 11:16 Dropping the analytics database 11:40 dev was actually production 12:40 Updating the DNS 13:40 Losing ~$50,000 15:30 Clearing 80 million records 16:21 Web chat DDoS 18:00 URL Shortener #$@%# Ontario’s rejected licence plates for 2022 | CP24.com Boonta Vista: A “political” podcast for “smart” people 21:12 Sending an email to 20,000 users 21:42 Moving code to GitHub 23:32 “Lorem sale” 26:08 2,000 SMS messages 27:00 International shipment of kiosks 28:19 Crashing production Slow DB Queries | Sentry Documentation 31:01 Hitting customers credit card limit 32:01 Infinite redirect loop 32:53 My first commit 33:23 Augmented reality game prize mistakes 35:15 A $20,000 hour 35:57 Site went down for 3 days 37:42 Accidentally truncated the prod database 38:48 Off by one error 40:05 Exposing database credentials 42:08 Delete a temp directory on prod 44:51 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Race to the Summit Wes: 100LBS Strong Magnetic Hooks Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

25 Loka 202350min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:22 Whetting your whistle 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight 08:02 Making changes to a JSON file 13:11 Deploying a “disallow everything” robots.txt 14:45 GDPR Deletion 16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres 17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update 18:34 Email fail 19:25 Hot mobile app prayers 22:28 Bogus ACH info 23:51 Wiring money error 26:44 Payment gateway test not production 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

23 Loka 202331min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brad Frost about how to implement design systems in small and large scale projects, best practices around naming things, keeping everything in sync across different codebases, and how design systems help projects. Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:02 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:34 Introducing Brad Frost Brad Frost.com Atomic Design by Brad Frost Brad (@brad_frost) on Twitter Brad on LinkedIn Brad on Mastodon Brad on YouTube Brad on GitHub Brad Frost on CodePen Big Medium | Design for What’s Next 06:43 What is a design system? 12:12 How do you keep design and code in sync? Material Design Shopify Polaris Carbon Design System The Design System Ecosystem | Brad Frost 16:13 How do you use Shopify, WordPress, React, etc. through a design system? 19:41 How is CSS handled? 25:40 What’s the benefit of going all in on web components? 29:13 Do small startups need to worry about design systems? 33:03 How do design tokens work? 38:17 How do you deal with pushback on design systems? 41:46 How do you go outside the guidelines? 45:24 What system do you use for naming things? 49:34 How do you best document your language choices? 51:09 Supper Club questions Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller: Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright: 9781603580557: Amazon.com: Books Miriam Eric Suzanne Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design - Famous for stating the obvious. 57:54 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Rubblebucket Shameless Plugs Frostapalooza! | Brad Frost FROSTAPALOOZA - A Concert Party Happening On August 17th 2024 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

20 Loka 202359min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:49 v0.dev v0 by Vercel 09:28 Anthropic and Claude Claude Syntax Listener Survey 18:02 Facebook’s Meta AI AI at Meta 18:48 Cloudflare AI Large language model (LLM) Speech to text Translation Sentiment Analysis Image classification Embedding 27:24 AI Hardware announced Rewind 29:39 Cloudflare Hugging face Hugging Face – The AI community building the future. StarCoder: A State-of-the-Art LLM for Code Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications 36:28 OpenAI Function calling Function calling and other API updates 38:55 GPT-4V GPT-4V(ision) system card 42:36 GitHub CoPilot 44:03 Are we still on the AI hype train? 48:27 Are our jobs at risk as developers? 52:24 Spotify DJ AI Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ 53:29 ChatGPT plugins ChatGPT plugins 55:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy Wes: Peter Santenello, Roblox Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

18 Loka 20231h