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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with questions about JavaScript, HTTP status error codes, memory safety, and a bit of web history thrown in. Show Notes 00:11:07 Welcome Displaced Gamers 00:46:00 In which year was JavaScript introduced? 02:59:16 What status code is returned by server when a resource isn’t found? 03:32:00 Which http status code indicates the client must authenticate itself? 04:34:17 What is a pseudo class and give an example? 05:15:11 What JavaScript function allows you to delay the execution of a function? 06:02:06 Who first proposed using separate style sheet language for the web? 08:08:14 Which of the following statements about JavaScript strict are true? 08:50:11 What is event driven programming in Node.js? 10:26:08 In GraphQL, how do you mark a field as deprecated? 10:47:24 How does xHTML differ from HTML? 11:48:21 Which of the following statements is true about objects in JavaScript? 13:20:19 What is a type erase in TypeScript? 14:21:23 In TypeScript which syntax can be used to define a user defined type guard? 16:02:12 What is a closure in JavaScript? 17:40:00 Which node.js module provides asynchronus file I/O? 18:54:08 What does memory safety mean? 21:57:11 What does http2 introduce to improve speed? 23:58:05 What are strategies for optimizing HTML5 video? 26:28:11 Which of the following is not a correct way to create a new object? 28:13:20 What is the difference between function declaration and function expression? 30:49:11 What is the value of this inside an arrow function defined in a non-arrow function? 31:22:11 What is a type guard? 33:03:11 What is the order of execution in JavaScript? 35:11:01 Which version of ecmascript was scrapped? 39:41:00 What is the result of the following comparison in JavaScript? 41:37:21 What were the major criticisms of CSS in it’s early days? 46:48:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Projector Wes: USB plug 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

12 Jul 202353min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about various AI tools for developers that are available. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:36 AI creeping into real life 04:03 Cody AI Cody - Business AI Employee Trained on Your Knowledge Base Sourcegraph 06:24 How AI coding help works 09:57 Amazon Code Whisper AI Code Generator - Amazon CodeWhisperer - AWS Amazon Code Whisperer VS Github Copilot 10:44 Copilot Labs GitHub Next GitHub Next | GitHub Copilot Labs 14:25 LintRule Lintrule 18:06 Open Commit di-sukharev/opencommit: Auto-generate impressive commits with AI in 1 second 24:03 Code Geex CodeGeeX - A Multilingual Code Generation Tool - CodeGeeX Ghostwriter - Code faster with AI - Replit Meaningful Code Tests for Busy Devs | CodiumAI 30:20 Tab9 and Kite AI assistant for software developers | Tabnine Potluck - Web components × Gear × Docker × Web Dev Frameworks × Golden Handcuffs × Browser Testing × SSR React × Code Prediction × More! — Syntax Podcast 364 33:06 Sloppy prompt example 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

10 Jul 202336min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary’s new AI tools, media flow, removing backgrounds, using AI for video templates, and Colby’s stack for creating YouTube content. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:11 Who is Colby Fayock? ColbyFayock.com Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock)on Twitter ColbyFayock - Twitch colbyfayock on GitHub Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock) • Instagram 01:57 What is Cloudinary? Image and Video Upload, Storage, Optimization and CDN 03:03 What’s with the space jellyfish? 03:52 How is Cloudinary using AI for the web? Developer resources for using images and videos in your apps 09:54 What is media flow? 13:00 Who is the target audience for AI tools from Cloudinary? 17:03 Removing backgrounds Remove Background from Image for Free – remove.bg iPhone Messages stickers: How to make and use them - 9to5Mac 21:14 Cloudinary’s Video API ascorbic/unpic-img: Multi-framework responsive image component 22:44 Function calling in OpenAI 26:22 How do you deal with the random generation of AI? 29:00 What are the community SDKs for Cloudinary? 37:04 What’s your process for creating content for YouTube? 42:49 Supper Club Questions Open Broadcaster Software | OBS Facecam Pro – Elgato Recut — Automatic Video Editor Night Owl - Visual Studio Marketplace iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh 51:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ready To Drink Cold Brew Coffee | Trader Joe’s Shameless Plugs Colby Fayock on YouTube 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

7 Jul 202354min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what headless components are, the why and when to use headless components, and how to best implement them. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 02:33 Tailwind Connect Tailwind Connect 2023 | Tailwind CSS Live Event 04:37 Headless component overview Downshift Headless UI 06:57 A country dropdown component 12:52 Possibly like Svelte actions? 18:46 What do headless components provide? 19:13 Examples of headless component projects Microsoft Edge Demo 24:24 How does this compare to web components? Tanstack Table Tanstack Virtual 26:29 Checking out Shoelace Shoelace 28:42 Figma announcements What’s New in Figma 31:21 What does headless mean? 36:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 41:20 AI Voices ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Hacker News Recap /Hacker News Recap on Apple Podcasts Wes: Calipers 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

5 Jul 202347min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects. Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome 01:04:11 Overview of Lightning CSS Lightning CSS Devon Govett (@devongovett) Parcel 04:56:11 What’s in Lightning CSS? OKLCH 21:39:11 CSS Layers 24:57:14 Text decoration 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

3 Jul 202329min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher? Armin Ronacher mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) Armin Ronacher Armin Ronacher Apache Kafka 04:11 What are queues and what are they used for? 08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue? 12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down? 18:31 How do you architect a queue? 20:20 How does it scale up? 27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events? Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation 33:45 How do you visualize the data? 37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix 40:22 How are you using Rust? Rust Programming Language 43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space? 45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server? 48:02 Supper Club questions 50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming? ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Bilderbuch Bilderbuch on Spotify Shameless Plugs Rye - An Experimental Package Management Solution for Python 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 Jun 202359min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:39 Dental cleanings 03:00 What’s an ORM? 05:51 Benefits of using an ORM 12:54 Validation in ORM 19:18 What about Types? 23:44 Popular ORMs Prisma Sequelize Objection.js Knex.js DrizzleORM - next gen TypeScript ORM Mongoose ODM v7.3.1 TypeORM waterline.js 42:41 Potential downsides to using an ORM 45:53 Database schemas 52:30 Hooks or events 55:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Wes: Wise, Formerly TransferWise: Online Money Transfers 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

28 Jun 20231h 1min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS 03:58 Domain name flattening 05:07 Domain name privacy 05:31 Proxy registrations 06:44 Bait and switch registrars 11:56 Domain registrars we found 13:09 NameCheap and Spaceship Namecheap Spaceship 17:42 GoDaddy GoDaddy 19:26 Ghandi Gandi.net 21:16 Porkbun Porkbun 22:18 Hover Hover.com 24:24 Name Name.com 26:24 Cloudflare Cloudflare 28:04 What’s the process for moving d iwantmyname DNSimpleomains to a new registrar? 30:38 I Want My Name and DNS Simple 33:05 Finding domain names 37:28 What would you pick to register a domain today? 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

26 Jun 202342min