Anxiety and Uncertainty with Dr. Courtney Tolinski
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dr. Courtney Tolinski about signs and symptoms of anxiety, what the long term effects are of anxiety, how to know if you need help, and what kinds of things you can do to deal with anxiety and uncertainty. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:11 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:23 Introducing Dr. Courtney Tolinski Mental Health and Dev ft Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Depression, Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, Focus, Motivation, Burnout — Syntax Podcast 236 Supper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski — Syntax Podcast 532 04:13 What is anxiety? 06:44 Is there a difference between anxiety and just not wanting to do something? 08:58 What kinds of physical symptoms are there? 15:43 What are the longer term effects of anxiety? 17:34 How do you know if you need help with anxiety? 21:05 What can I do to solve my anxiety? Psychology Today Canada: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking How We Feel Apple Reveals More iOS 17 Features Not Available Until Later This Year - MacRumors Meditation and Sleep Made Simple - Headspace Bearable Symptom Tracker, Mood Journal, & Health App BreathingApp — Personal breathing trainer for a better health 30:15 How can we recognize anxiety triggers? 33:26 What advice do you have for dealing with uncertainty? 37:54 How can I deal with keeping up with everything and feeling like I’m falling behind? 43:02 Navigating big life decisions 51:39 Supper Club questions Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily on Apple Podcasts Criminality 58:01 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Fullstar Compact Vegetable Chopper - Vegetable Cutter, Food Chopper, Veggie Chopper, Onion Chopper, Vegetable Chopper With Container, Vegetable Slicer, Vegetable Cutter, Mandoline Slicer (6 Inserts): Home & Kitchen Shameless Plugs Learning Differently (@learning.differently) • Instagram photos and videos Zarlengo Foundation Learning Evaluation Center| Denver, Colorado 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
22 Sep 20231h 1min
The Svelte + SvelteKit Show
In this episode of Syntax, Wes reviews his experience building with Svelte and SvelteKit including templating, data fetching, actions, managing state, request handlers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:12 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:11 What is Svelte vs SvelteKit From React To SvelteKit — Syntax Podcast 390 Hasty Treat - Wes & Scott Look At Svelte 3 — Syntax Podcast 173 Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined 05:59 Templating in Svelte 18:20 Data fetching in SvelteKit 25:23 Actions 28:58 State 32:41 Binding values 36:18 Hooks 37:25 Request handlers Special elements • Docs • Svelte website/src/actions/anchor.ts at v2 · syntaxfm/website website/src/actions/click_outside.ts at v2 · syntaxfm/website 39:23 Svelte Actions 42:26 Popover API 45:33 Routing 47:22 Layouts 50:08 Styling 57:09 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Aqara Smart Lock U100 Wes: Headphones Replacement Ear Pads,Compatible for Bose Quietcomfort QC15 QC25 QC35 35 ii-(Black Floral) 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
20 Sep 20231h 2min
Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how you can intercept and debug traffic going out from your computer or other internet connected devices in your home, or your garage! Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:17 Scott’s story of wanting to intercept data Tonal 06:36 Other examples 08:38 Different types of traffic 14:52 TCP vs UDP 16:07 Why would you want to run a proxy? 24:20 Applications to use Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy Proxyman · Native, Modern Web Debugging Proxy · Inspect network traffic from Mac, iOS, Android devices with ease Intercept, debug & mock HTTP with HTTP Toolkit mitmproxy - an interactive HTTPS proxy Wireshark · Go Deep Little Snitch Capturing Modes - Fiddler Everywhere Hacksore on Twitter How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style 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
18 Sep 202335min
Supper Club × How To Get Your First Dev Job With Stuart Bloxham
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Stuart Bloxham about how he learned to code, what his interview process was like when applying for a job, how he found the time to make it all work, and his thoughts on bootcamps and ways to learn. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome Stuart Bloxham on GitHub Stuart Bloxham on LinkedIn 02:09 How did you decide to be a web developer? 08:22 Did you have clarity when your kid was born? 10:20 What was the interview process like? 18:25 What and how did you learn? 20:28 What’s the state of bootcamps in 2023? 22:03 How important have soft skills been? 25:14 How do you know when you’re ready to apply for a job? 35:24 Do you like coding? 37:49 How did you find the time to make it all work? 41:42 How did you deal with burnout? 43:06 Supper Club questions 45:34 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Flowerhorn cichlid Shameless Plugs Stuart Bloxham’s Portfolio 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
15 Sep 202348min
Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the projects they built during Sentry’s Hackweek: a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor, and a hardware recording button. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:57 What is a hack week? 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:42 Scott’s project: a multiplayer editor Liveblocks | Collaborative experiences in days, not months PartyKit | Everything is better with friends BlockNote - Javascript Block-Based text editor | BlockNote Dev toolkit for building collaborative editors – Tiptap microsoft/monaco-editor: A browser based code editor syntaxfm/hackweek-md-multiplayer-editor: Sentry.io Hackweek Submisison - A multiplayer editor for .md files that comits directly to GitHub Convex | The fullstack TypeScript development platform The Everything App 13:57 Multiplayer is so much easier 19:56 Wes’ project: A recording button Oracle VM VirtualBox Run Windows on Mac – Parallels Desktop 19 Virtual Machine for Mac Karabiner-Elements folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac! Home Assistant The World’s Leading 2D and 3D Platform | Unity Pro Free Trial SendCutSend | Online Laser Cutting and Waterjet Cutting blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software 42:31 Learning to skateboard 43:59 F1 documentary follow up 45:30 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Wes: LOVIMAG Magnetic Hooks Heavy Duty Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on TikTok Wes: @WesBos on X.com 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
13 Sep 202351min
CSS Nesting is Here!
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the arrival of CSS nesting. What is CSS nesting? How does CSS nesting work? And does it work in all browsers? Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 02:31 What’s up with CSS nesting? "CSS Nesting just landed in Firefox 117 which puts it at 100% browser support! You can start using it today — here are 11 examples on how it works 👇 04:10 How does CSS nesting work? 09:23 What the ampersand does in nesting 21:05 It works with media queries 25:29 How does it work on all the browsers? 29:32 Lightning CSS Lightning CSS 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
11 Sep 202331min
Supper Club × What's New With Astro with Fred Schott
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 3x guest Fred Schott! Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580 Pika Pkg — Syntax Podcast 212 05:11 What is Astro? 07:37 What’s new in Astro v3? Astro 3.0 | Astro 14:18 Behind the scenes improvements in Astro v3 18:17 HMR Enhancements 20:10 What’s the hosting partner deal with Vercel? Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner | Astro 28:04 Docs template Starlight announcement Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro 31:28 How often do you release updates? 33:47 Marketing open source Time to suit up | Astro Shop SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined 36:18 Making major version numbers less scary 40:04 Does Astro use Vite? Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling 42:01 Is it different working on a framework than a tool like Snowpack? 43:53 Thoughts on cloud text editors Project IDX 47:02 How do you keep up to date? 48:43 Do you write in TypeScript? 51:31 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Factorio Shameless Plugs Astro (@astrodotbuild) 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
8 Sep 202355min
Potluck × Soft Skills × Release Notes × Headless CMS × Organizing Code × Inet CSS?
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning soft skills, using release notes, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, what inet is, better ways to use ChatGPT, and more! Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:42 Scott’s butt pincher Affenpinscher 06:08 You keep missing my favorite thing about Civet Civet 07:31 What soft skills can I learn to help me in my career? HTML, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks 12:42 Have you thought about release notes or a what’s new section? Conventional Commits How to generate Changelog using Conventional Commits | by Riccardo Canella | Jobtome Engineering | Medium 15:57 Can you explain headless CMS and what the use-cases/implementations are? 19:24 Any suggestions for dealing with web components and the client’s tracking scripts How to Read Flamegraphs 🔥 Chromium F12 Profiler: The Main Thread Pane Agent Creation has a large CPU time · Issue #915 · bluesky-social/atproto 25:27 Why do we need .d.ts files in TypeScript? 30:15 What is inset in CSS? inset - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN 35:06 Is there a way to use AI/chat gpt to more quickly and easily understand technical documentation? Anthropic \ Home Getting Started 🚀 Astro Documentation ChatGPT Plugin - AskTheCode | GPTStore.ai ChatGPT Plugin - Scraper | GPTStore.ai Overview | TanStack Query Docs Custom instructions for ChatGPT 40:59 why is the following true: the string “undefined”.includes(undefined)? 43:27 How do you organize your code directories? 48:50 Is there any good reason in 2023 why we should still be loading JS files with all our script tags at the bottom of the body element? 54:32 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Surge power bar Wes: Little Hippo Alarm 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
6 Sep 20231h
