Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Sewell about Builder.io, Qwik, Partytown, and the tricks and tips he’s learned in building apps for the modern web. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:14 Guest introduction Steve on Twitter Steve on GitHub Builder.io Builder.io/demo 04:07 Builder works with any tech stack? 06:29 Where is the structure of the site coming from? 07:28 What is Builder.io? 11:34 What’s the workflow for updating content? 13:03 What is Builder built in? Mobx 14:36 Moving from Figma to HTML 18:41 Is an app like this divs all the way down? 24:55 Stories of browser gremlins building? 26:29 Advice for anyone building drag and drop Fullstory 29:04 Does FPS play a part in development? 33:31 Do you use SVG? 36:15 Where does Qwik and Partytown fit into all of it? Qwik Partytown 46:45 How does accessibility play into Builder? 49:44 Supper club questions 54:30 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Dead Space Remake 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

3 Mar 202359min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the current landscape of AI, how AI is trained, is AI going to take your job, who’s going to train AI, and adding AI to your applications. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:11:10 Welcome 01:58:01 Sponsor: Sentry 03:16:05 What this episode is not going to be 07:36:11 The current landscape Chat GPT GitHub Copilot Warp Completions Midjourney Bing AI From Bing to Sydney Why a Chat with Bing Left Me Deeply Unsettled Tensorflow Stable Diffusion Amazing AI Dall E 15:26:11 Timeline of growth of AI AI Timeline 16:24:11 What is a model for AI? 24:20:11 How do you use AI? 33:14:00 Code brushes 35:57:18 Midjourney Yandex 40:13:18 Is it going to take your job? Canva Cal 50:22:19 Cost prohibitive 52:26:20 Who’s going to train the robots? 57:29:12 Adding AI to your apps 58:50:11 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Motion sensor Wes: Apple Watch Ultra 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

1 Mar 20231h 6min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to enforce your rules. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 00:46 Sponsor: Sentry 01:51 Uses performance issues Uses.tech 04:23 Understand Sloppy Code 10:17 Syntax website timestamp issue 12:56 Establish rules to fix sloppy code 16:35 Adding a feature, do you refactor an unrelated function? 23:07 How do you enforce rules? GitHub Actions 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 Feb 202328min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more! Show Notes 00:40 Welcome 01:08 Guest introduction FredKSchott.com @Fredkschott on Twitter Fred on GitHub 02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it? 04:57 What can you build with Astro? 06:11 What’s an island in content? 09:43 How do routes work with Astro? 12:30 How is Markdown handled in Astro? mdxjs 14:32 How does Astro work on the edge? 18:15 How does Astro v2 handle data fetching? 23:25 Integrations with Astro 26:38 Astro AI bot? AI Langchain 30:40 Error overlay design 36:10 What are some of the most important upgrades in v2? 37:18 Hybrid rendering 40:27 Astro’s image component Squoosh 44:39 What happened to snowpack? Pikapkg? 46:48 What is the financial model for Astro? 50:28 Supper Club questions Obsidian ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Chat Langchain Shameless Plugs Astro Astro Discord 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

24 Feb 202358min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why they’re digging Warp as their terminal app of choice, what the terminal is, and some of their wishlist items for Warp. Show Notes 00:09 Welcome 02:11 Disclaimers 04:17 What is the terminal? 06:54 What we’ve used for terminal Get Warp Hyper Terminal iTerm Alacritty 11:14 Terminal terminology CommandLinePowerUser.com WSL OhMyPosh OhMyZsh Starship Ion 17:35 The basic features of Warp 20:45 Autocomplete issues Fig 25:06 Sticky header 26:13 Blocks 29:17 The prompt 30:38 Sharing blocks and live sessions 32:29 AI Command Search AI Command search 35:51 Remote SSH 37:53 Window management Launch configurations 38:42 Workflows 40:19 The command palette 42:36 How does Warp make money? 43:54 Warp requires an account 46:09 Annoyances and wishlists 58:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 50 Pokemon Cards for $5 Wes: iPad Sorter Station 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

22 Feb 20231h 6min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons why you should log errors, how it’s not just for debugging, where to save logs, and apps and packages to help with logging. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:37 Sponsor: Sentry 02:16 What is logging? Why log? 04:59 Logging isn’t just for debugging 08:22 What do we log? 13:34 What not to log 14:58 Development, staging, and production 17:36 Logging bots 19:33 Where to put logs 20:59 How to log Log Tail Paper Trail Sematext Logs DataDog Winston Pino 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 Feb 202325min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ryan Carniato about Solid.JS, SolidStart, how web components work with Solid, why he chose JSX, and what the future of Solid is. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:38 Who is Ryan Carniato? @RyanCarniato on Twitter Ryan on Dev.to Solid.JS 02:37 Why did you build Solid? Knockout.JS Marko JS 09:15 What is Solid? 12:55 What does it mean to compile to vanilla JavaScript? SolidStart Tanstack Query 19:39 What are observables and signals? 27:17 How are web components used inside of Solid? 29:38 Why aren’t we using web components more? 32:37 Why would someone pick SolidStart vs Solid? 39:07 Why did you choose JSX? 44:45 How did you build live code examples into documentation? SolidJS Docs Solid-Movies.app 47:19 What is Solid.JS built on? 53:36 What is the future of Solid? 00:39 Supper club questions 02:57 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Alice in Borderland Shameless Plugs Ryan on Twitch Ryan 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

17 Feb 20231h 5min

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript for marketers, managing application secrets, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:09 Sponsor: Sentry 02:18 Electrical house update Klien Wirestrippers 07:45 Custom Syntax podcast browser Custom Syntax browser 09:29 When using browser native web components (i.e. extends HTMLElement), should the whole application be wrapped in a component tree similar to how React apps do it? Deno Using Web Components with Next or any SSR Framework 16:12 Should I avoid JS/TS class mixins? 21:07 Is it acceptable to have any string value as a value for a CSS custom property? 26:48 Should agencies consider building marketing sites with JS frameworks or is Wordpress still the best option here? 33:56 What are the main things to think about when laying the foundations for an app or project that will hopefully grow into something big? 41:24 Will Javascript skills give me an edge over other local digital marketers? WordPress Ghost 46:00 What tool, if any, do you use for publishing packages? 50:19 Do you have any suggestions on how I can find time to code more? Bit 54:17 how do you both manage your application secrets (API keys, database credentials etc) when deploying to Digital Ocean or Linode? 58:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Physical 100 Wes: Leviton D23LP-2RW Decora Smart Wi-Fi Mini Plug-In Dimmer 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

15 Feb 20231h 6min