917: AI Tools You Should Know

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the ways they improved performance on the Syntax.fm website, how they knew it was slow to begin with, and the various changes they made to caching, and loading transcripts to improve the speed of the site. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:32 Adding a database requires queries 03:32 How did we know the site was slow? 04:25 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 07:45 Changing the way transcripts are being loaded 13:41 Caching 21:16 Caching Headers Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

25 Des 202327min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review their 2023 predictions and see how they did on ideas like Deno getting hotter, new JS APIs, WASM, Houdini, CSS Container Queries, and more! Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:05 SSR JS sites more the norm solidjs.com Remix - Build Better Websites Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Astro 04:14 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 05:20 Types In JS? ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1 07:55 Deno gets hotter 11:12 JS runtimes mature htmx 11:50 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust 14:06 New JS APIs What’s the status of this project? · Issue #1101 · dudykr/stc Wes Bos on X: "Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3 tc39/proposals: Tracking ECMAScript Proposals JS Fundamentals - Decorators - Syntax #653 16:29 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular. WinterCG 17:09 Edge Rendering More Common Prettier on X: "We setup a $20k bounty for a rust-based compatible printer with prettier. $20k Bounty was Claimed! · Prettier 18:09 A new JS framework 19:05 Page Transitions API 19:51 Rust becomes more popular 24:00 More WASM Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion - Syntax #643 FFmpeg Fastly 25:11 React Beta Docs launch after 5 year dev cycle 26:47 We start to see CSS Container Queries in production 29:05 CanIUse issues? 31:20 CSS Subgrid 32:56 More AI 34:06 Tooling Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling Announcing Biome | Biome Lightning CSS Rspack Turbopack 36:08 People sour on React 36:47 People sour on eslint 37:16 Houdini does nothing CSS Houdini| MDN Is Houdini Ready Yet? 39:57 How’d we do? 40:40 Sick picks Sick Picks Scott: Super Mario Bros.™ Wonder Wes: Tineco Pure ONE S11 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

20 Des 202347min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about understanding the integration of different components in AI models, the choice between traditional models and Language Learning Models (LLM), the relevance of the Hugging Face library, demystify Llama, discuss spaces in AI, and highlight available services. Show Notes 00:25:20 Welcome 00:55:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:17:00 Understanding how the pieces fit together 02:31:18 Models or LLM? 04:43:22 What about Hugging Face? 08:05:18 What’s Llama? 08:51:15 What are spaces? 09:29:06 Services available to you 12:26:16 What are tokens in AI? 17:38:18 What is temperature with AI? 20:33:08 Using top_p 21:06:00 Using fine-tuning to extend existing models 22:11:19 Prompts are what you send to the model 23:17:00 Streaming 24:48:17 Embeddings 27:34:17 OpenAI maintains Evals 28:40:14 Different libraries for working with AI Hugging Face Creator of Swift, Tesla Autopilot & Tensorflow. New AI language Mojo with Chris Lattner LLaMA Spaces - Hugging Face OpenAI Anthropic \ Introducing Claude Replicate Fireworks Console gpt-tokenizer playground openai/tiktoken: tiktoken is a fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI’s models. Supper Club × OpenAI, Future of programming, LLMs, and Math with Andrey Mishchenko Raycast Pro Amazon SageMaker (AMS SSPS) openai/evals LangChain PyTorch TensorFlow ai - npm Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

18 Des 202333min

In this Supper Club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Feross Aboukhadijeh about his work on Socket which helps to make sure the code you get from npm is safe and secure. They also touch on his work on Wormhole and Web Torrent. Show Notes 00:30 Welcome 00:57 Who is Feross Aboukhadijeh? 01:33 What is Socket? [Socket.dev](https://socket.dev dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) pull-stream/pull-stream: minimal streams 03:59 Introducing AI package summaries Example of the AI summaries Introducing AI Package Summaries 07:04 Is Socket’s focus on visibility of a open source project? 10:01 What was the inspiration for Socket? Introducing “safe npm”, a Socket npm Wrapper - Socket 16:22 How does Socket detect possible security issues? Removed packages event-source-polyfill protestware attack john wick spam attack 18:55 How many projects are you injesting for Socket to scan? 26:00 What kinds of things are people trying to inject in code? CS253 Web Security 29:54 How do I hook Socket up to my project or GitHub? 32:08 Do we still need to use shrink wrap? 36:34 How did you implement the torrent spec in JavaScript for WebTorrent? WebTorrent Desktop WebTorrent FAQ 43:11 Why did you build Wormhole? Wormhole 47:33 How expensive is it to maintain Wormhole? Riverside.fm - Record Podcasts And Videos From Anywhere 50:37 What do you think of decentralized code repos? Radicle Project Fugu Fugu Tracker 54:29 Understanding passkeys 56:15 Supper Club questions GitHub Theme - Visual Studio Marketplace Web Serial API - Web APIs | MDN 01:03:04 Sick Picks Sick Picks Harry Potter audio books Shameless Plugs ChatGPT Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

15 Des 20231h 7min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with JavaScript and CSS interview style questions including CSS contain, naming the 7 parts of Houdini, what ARIA stands for, 5 limitations of serverless, and more. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:31 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:01 Explain CSS Contain and why it exists? 07:27 In CSS Grid, how would I make a grid of 3 equal columns with 20 pixels between them? Wes Bos on X: 🔥 A visual guide to getting equal width columns in CSS Grid / X 10:31 Which of the following elements are fake? 13:00 Which of the following HTML tags are deprecated? 16:38 What is the samp element? 17:27 Name the 7 parts of CSS Houdini 21:07 In JavaScript for loop with 10 items, how can you exit a loop early? 22:34 What is the difference between a pseudo element and a pseudo class? 25:59 How could you implement CSS :has with JavaScript? 27:56 What are two attributes that would make an SVG more accessible? 29:43 How can you stop your process from exiting if you have an unhandled rejection? 32:27 How do you prevent flex children from getting squished? 34:40 In TypeScript, what does using keyof and typeof together do? 37:19 What does ARIA stand for? 37:39 Name 5 limitations that a serverless or edge function have over tradtional long running server? 40:38 Write an item using Flex code, not grow to fill it’s container, or shrink, and the item will take up only the space based on it’s content size. 42:03 If I’m building an application that needs to announce a change to the user, how would I do that? 43:46 Name the 5 different Git elements methods on a document? 45:39 What does the CSS prospective property do? 48:23 Sick picks Sick Picks Scott: Pushpin hangers Wes: Niimbot Label Maker, Bearclaw Screws) Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

13 Des 202357min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott give a high level overview of the observer pattern, what is the observer, what are downsides to too many observers, and more. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:42 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:16 High level overview Syntax 694: What’s Up With Angular with Mark Techson Godot Engine 03:36 What might you observe in game development? 06:50 What is the observer? 08:11 What are some downsides to too many observers? 10:17 IntersectionObserver, MutationObserver, and PerformanceObserver 12:25 ResizeObserver 13:04 What about addEventListener? @BenLesh on Callbacks being faster than observables 16:13 Signals are becoming a big thing Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

11 Des 202319min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through new and proposed JavaScript APIs including ones related to regex, sourcemaps, structured clone, temporal, JSON modules, and more! Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:26 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:55 RegExp Escaping Proposal tc39/proposal-regex-escaping: Proposal for investigating RegExp escaping for the ECMAScript standard 05:25 Intl.DurationFormat tc39/proposal-intl-duration-format 07:55 Standardized Sourcemaps tc39/source-map-rfc: RFCs for the source map debug format. 10:43 Structured Clone structuredClone() global function - Web APIs | MDN 12:54 Temporal Hasty Treat - Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript Tracking issue for syncing with IETF standardization work (req’d before implementers can ship unflagged) · Issue #1450 · tc39/proposal-temporal 20:59 FindLast and findLastIndex tc39/proposal-array-find-from-last: Proposal for Array.prototype.findLast and Array.prototype.findLastIndex. 22:27 JSON modules tc39/proposal-json-modules: Proposal to import JSON files as modules 24:46 Regex Modifiers RegExp Modifiers - June 2022.pptx - Microsoft PowerPoint Online 26:50 Array Grouping tc39/proposal-array-grouping: A proposal to make grouping of array items easier 30:48 Array Methods tc39/proposal-change-array-by-copy: Provides additional methods on Array.prototype and TypedArray.prototype to enable changes on the array by returning a new copy of it with the change. 6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs 32:12 Promise.withResolvers 35:08 Function.prototype.memo tc39/proposal-function-memo: A TC39 proposal for function memoization in the JavaScript language. 37:48 Node has a Proposed ESM Detection flag 39:54 Node has navigator.userAgent 41:29 Built in .env support 42:52 Permissions model & test runner continues to be worked on 44:06 HTML Web charts Proposal: Web Charts · Issue #9295 · whatwg/html 45:39 autopause Add autopause attribute to media elements to allow automatic pausing of media · Issue #9793 · whatwg/html 46:30 Meta Tag for AI generated content Proposal: Meta Tag for AI Generated Content · Issue #9479 · whatwg/html Schema.org - Schema.org Syntax × Sentry Swag Store – Syntax × Sentry Shop Syntax - A Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers. 50:13 Poster frame HTML Video Element: Proposal for adding [srcset] + [posterset] + [sizes] on video element as well [posterset] on source elements · Issue #9812 · whatwg/html 50:57 Popover invoker Popover does not know what triggered it · Issue #9111 · whatwg/html 51:25 Autocomplete on ‘contenteditable’ Elements Autocomplete on ‘contenteditable’ Elements · Issue #9065 · whatwg/html 52:17 Sick Picks Sick Picks Scott: Escaping Twin Flames cult documentary Wes: Lao Gan Ma spicy Chili Oil Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

6 Des 202355min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott explain ARIA, aria-label, Roles, and the overall importance of accessibility in your web projects. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:44 What is ARIA? WAI-ARIA Roles | MDN An in-depth guide to ARIA roles - The A11Y Project 02:48 What is aria-label? // A button with an ARIA role and label 06:36 What’s the difference between a title and aria-label on a button? 08:34 Are you really going to get sued if your website isn’t accessible? 11:53 What are Roles for? 16:33 6 different types of Roles 21:25 What is aria-labelledby? I agree to the Terms and Conditions. 23:13 Checking your code for accessibility eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y - npm WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Polypane 24:31 Feedback and future show ideas Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

4 Des 202327min