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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness. Show Notes 00:17 Welcome 02:38 What’s a cantina? 06:33 Scott’s coding goals Animated grid layouts Tauri 14:39 Wes’ code goals Uses Stripe Stripe Elements Shoelace 23:17 Tooling Vite Plugin List Directory Contents 26:39 Scott’s courses and platform LevelUp.video 29:36 Wes’ courses Wes Bos Tutorials 31:11 Scott’s fitness goals 35:55 Wes’ fitness goals 39:44 Apple Watch for fitness 41:54 Syntax podcast goals 50:13 Scott’s social media goals Scott on TikTok LevelUp Newsletter 52:35 Wes’ social media goals Wes on TikTok 58:02 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Menu Wes: JB Weld Clearweld, big version 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

11 Jan 20231h 4min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Satisfies and as const. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Xmas recap Peloton 04:09 Satisfies and as const 06:16 What is const? 10:30 Helping with currency 12:44 Bos monster server update 14:13 Satisfies export const currencies = { USD: 'US Dollars', CAD: 'Canadian Dollar', EUR: 'Euro', } as const; export type Currency = typeof currencies; export type CurrencyCode = keyof Currency; 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

9 Jan 202322min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’s like moving from management to coding and back, the book writing process, and her Fortnite VS Code theme. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:59 Who is Sarah Drasner? @Sarah_Edo on Twitter @Sarah_Edo on Mastodon @Sdras on CodePen @SDras on GitHub SarahDrasnerDesign.com Google Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Amazon: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us Netlify 05:25 How did you figure out what to do in management? 07:20 How do you get out of engineer’s way? The Engineer Manager pendulum 09:39 Do you spend time on making the person happy in the job? 15:51 Should managers code? 19:16 Was it difficult to step out of coding? 21:07 Why do people leave jobs? 24:04 Dealing with conflict and reorgs 28:36 What makes a good retro? 31:25 What was your process for writing a book? SVG Animations: From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation Scrivener Egghead Mayfly Design Sarah Drasner’s articles on CSS Tricks Sarah Drasner’s articles on Smashing Magazine 43:44 Supper Club questions Sarah Drasner’s VS Code snippets and themes Creating a VS Code theme Wes Bos Cobalt 2 VS Code theme Partytown beta 53:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Paper Koi Lantern: a DIY Kit Shameless Plugs Engineering Management for the Rest of Us 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

6 Jan 202355min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their predictions in web development for 2023. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:25 SSR JS sites more the norm 03:32 React doing forms 05:39 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 08:11 Deno gets hotter 12:51 JS Runtimes Mature HTMX 15:00 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust 19:20 New JS APIs 23:37 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular. “Worker Ready” script STC 27:05 A new JS framework SolidJS Qwik 29:44 Page Transitions API 32:40 Scott was right / Scotts gonna be right 34:06 Rust becomes more Popular 36:00 React Beta Docs launch after 5 year dev cycle 37:45 CSS Container Queries in Production 41:07 Svelte and Sveltekit Glow Up 43:38 CSS Subgrid 49:19 WASM 51:51 AI Open AI 53:16 Houdini 54:30 People souring on React, Eslint 57:47 Machine learning 01:08 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Cron Wes: Wyze Headphones Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp SvelteKit Tutorial 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

4 Jan 20231h 9min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some TypeScript Fundamentals around type narrowing, type guards, and type predicates. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:40 Rocking predicates 02:54 What is a type in TypeScript? 04:11 Type Narrowing 08:18 Type Guard 16:19 Type Predicates 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

2 Jan 202322min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kilian Valkhof about his work on Polypane, a browser for developers. How is Polypane built? Why does he have a focus on accessibility in Polypane? Show Notes 00:39 Welcome 01:48 Who is Kilian Valkhof? kilianvalkhof.com @kilianvalkhof on Twitter 04:50 What is Polypane? Polypane @Polypane on Twitter FromScratch 09:31 How is Polypane built? 14:18 What about the Dev tools tab? 20:15 Outline tab 23:23 Color picker 27:33 Canvas rules and guides 32:16 Accessibility background and tools 40:28 How do you parse the CSS? 42:51 What else do you want people to know about Polypane? 44:42 Supper Club questions 53:59 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Shameless Plugs Fix Contrast Superposition 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

30 Dec 202258min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott revisit their 2022 predictions and see which ones they got right, and which they got wrong. 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. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Auth0 - Sponsor Auth0 is the easiest way for developers to add authentication and secure their applications. They provides features like user management, multi-factor authentication, and you can even enable users to login with device biometrics with something like their fingerprint. Not to mention, Auth0 has SDKs for your favorite frameworks like React, Next.js, and Node/Express. Make sure to sign up for a free account and give Auth0 a try with the link below. https://a0.to/syntax Show Notes 00:09 Welcome Syntax 420: 2022 Predictions 01:44 Svelte popularity Svelte Svelte Kit 04:09 Next.js data layer 05:06 Web components UI Open UI 06:19 Rust popularity Rust 10:07 Serverless and Cloud functions 10:42 Tailwind popularity 16:20 Sponsor: Sentry 17:59 Next gen dev tools 19:46 CSS Container queries 21:45 GraphQL 26:26 Deno 29:44 TypeScript 34:28 Sponsor: Sanity 35:07 Server comeback 36:21 Checkouts and payment processers Lemon Squeezy 43:05 Sponsor: Auth0 44:18 Temporal API 46:44 Remote dev thin client popularity 49:49 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: JADENS Label Maker Machine with Tape Wes: Chipolo One Spot Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Svelte Kit Tutorial 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

28 Dec 20221h

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri. 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. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 01:18 Sponsor: Sentry 02:47 Sponsor: Prismic 04:01 Our experience with building desktop apps Level Up Tutorials: Level 1 Electron Hair.WesBos.com 10:04 Frameworks for building apps 10:56 Tauri vs Electron Tauri Electron 23:38 Tooling vite-plugin-electron 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

26 Dec 202227min