Large Files - CDNs, Image Compression, Video Hosting, and Big Zips

Large Files - CDNs, Image Compression, Video Hosting, and Big Zips

Scott and Wes talk about working with images, videos and big zips. How do you host them? Do you need a CDN? What about compression?! Cloudinary Cloudinary is the best way to host, compress and transform your images on the web. Sign up for their free tier and get 10GB of bandwidth for free! Also check out Cloudinary's ImageCon conference - use the code SYNTAX99 for a discount when checking out. Xojo — Sponsor Xojo is a cross-platform development tool for creating native apps for desktop, mobile, web and Raspberry Pi. With Xojo you really can write just one version of your app, say, on the Mac, click a button, and have a completely native Windows version too. Xojo lets you abstract yourself from specific platform details, so you can focus on what makes your app unique. All apps have completely native controls, even if they weren’t developed on that platform. Just use drag and drop to create your user interface, and one language to program the functionality. Users also include Fortune 500 companies, citizen developers, professional developers, IT, hobbyists and students - anyone who wants to build apps faster. Listeners of this show get 20% off with the coupon code SYNTAX over at xojo.com/syntax Show Notes 1:30 Chit-chatting about GraphQL Testing 3:45 What is a CDN? Why do you need one? How does the internet even work? 7:00 Amazon S3 + Cloudfront CacheFly MaxCDN Cloudflare 11:30 Talking about Image Formats WebP WebP CanIUse 16:00 Losslesss VS Lossy Stripping image meta data like EXIF Image Optim App ImageMin Gulp ImageMin ImageMin Webpack ImageMin Plugins on npm 26:00 How we use Cloudinary 29:00 Hosting, Encoding and Compressing Videos Our Stacks Explained Syntax Podcast Vimeo Pro YouTube DL BrightCove Wista Sprout Video Cloudinary Video 41:00 What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare Video is coming 46:30 Web Torrent Apparently Spotify doesn't use P2P any longer 50:00 Big Zips! How do we host large video downloads? Amazon S3 + Cloudfront Handbrake Backblaze B2 55:00 Video Formats 59:00 SVGO SVGOMG Siiick Pixxxx Wes: Node Inspector Manager Scott: iShowUInstant Shameless Plugz Level Up Pro Wes' Courses 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

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998: How to Fix Vibe Coding

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Wes and Scott talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint, and Sentry. They cover code quality analysis, linting strategies, headless brows...

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997: Rating and Roasting Your Projects

997: Rating and Roasting Your Projects

Scott and Wes dig into a huge batch of community-submitted projects, from JSON tools and CSS editors to AI agents, view transitions, and everything in between. It’s a rapid-fire showcase of what devel...

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996: 10 New CSS and HTML APIs

996: 10 New CSS and HTML APIs

Wes and Scott talk about the latest CSS and browser features, including the Grid Lines API for masonry layouts, HTML in Canvas, name-only container queries, CSS random, search-text styling, and more. ...

15 Apr 31min

995: Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More

995: Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More

In this episode, Scott and Wes sit down with Tim Neutkens and Jimmi Lai from the Next.js team to dig into the new Adapters API, what it takes to run Next.js across platforms like Cloudflare and Netlif...

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994: AI Sucks At CSS

994: AI Sucks At CSS

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI struggles with CSS and design workflows, learning vs relying on AI, debugging web performance, beginner soldering setups...

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Scott and Wes break down a chaotic week in dev news — the Claude Code source leak, a nasty Axios npm supply chain hack, and Railway’s private cache exposure — plus how to keep these nightmare scenario...

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