Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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

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

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:49 Being tired The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre 05:08 Landscaping 10:53 Gym updates 23:01 House projects 28:39 Why are search engines so awful these days? 39:20 Internet routing 45:17 Linus Tech Tips ethics and issues 48:29 Rewiring a kid’s ATV 50:49 What we’re watching The Stronger By Science Podcast Watch Full Swing | Netflix Official Site Break Point | Official Trailer | Netflix Watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive | Netflix Official Site 58:37 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza Wes: Steam cleaner 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

4 Sep 202324min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Mark Erikson about his work in helping others understand shipping ESM, how to deal with permutations, whether default imports are helpful, whether TypeScript has made it easier, and what Mark’s tool stack is for building. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:45 Introducing Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson Mark Erikson (@acemarke) Wes Bos on Twitter: “publishing packages that work in esm and cjs is such a nightmare. I’ve run into so many issues today and took forever to get the proper package.json exports. I can’t wait until we’re 100% esm. I think I have every single combo covered.” Mark’s Dev Blog Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM Greatest Hits: The Most Popular and Most Useful Posts I’ve Written arethetypeswrong.github.io: Tool for analyzing TypeScript types of npm packages publint 07:01 How did we get to this space in modules? 16:30 How do you deal with permutations? 22:13 Do bundlers get in the way or helping? 26:16 Are default imports useful? 30:35 Are the types wrong errors 33:41 Has TypeScript made this easier? 37:56 What’s your tool stack for building? 39:32 How do you test? 41:35 Will we ever stop bundling? 48:03 What about source maps? 52:32 Supper Club Questions What is Windows Subsystem for Linux Eagle Oceanic Next DroidSansMono NF Font 55:18 React Types has more downloads than React? 59:42 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Shirley Wu—Taking up space (Keynote, Outlier 2023) Shameless Plugs Replay (@replayio) Replay - The time-travel debugger from the future. 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

1 Sep 20231h 8min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about concerts, getting tired because of being old, landscaping, spinning on your head, gym updates, awful search engines and awful ethics for YouTubers, rewiring old engines, and what’s being streamed. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:49 Being tired The Strokes & Weyes Blood Tickets | 14th August | Red Rocks Amphitheatre 05:08 Landscaping 10:53 Gym updates 23:01 House projects 28:39 Why are search engines so awful these days? 39:20 Internet routing 45:17 Linus Tech Tips ethics and issues 48:29 Rewiring a kid’s ATV 50:49 What we’re watching The Stronger By Science Podcast Watch Full Swing | Netflix Official Site Break Point | Official Trailer | Netflix Watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive | Netflix Official Site 58:37 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza Wes: Steam cleaner 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

30 Aug 20231h 5min

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about OG images, interesting ways you can work with them, and ways you can work dynamically with them. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 02:18 What are OG images? 06:19 Testing OG images Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers Meta Tags — Preview, Edit and Generate Sharing Debugger - Meta for Developers Card Validator | Twitter Developers 08:27 Creating an OG image vercel/satori: Enlightened library to convert HTML and CSS to SVG Open Graph (OG) Image Generation | Vercel Docs Introducing OG Image Generation: Fast, dynamic social card images at the Edge – Vercel 09:41 Dynamically generating OG images wesbos.com/thumbnail/?thumbnail=%2Fstatic%2F0005c028a536c87975eb84ae3d32ae57%2Faeron.jpg&title=Uses&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwesbos.com%2Fuses 21:16 Using Puppeteer Puppeteer | Puppeteer Puppeteer · Browser Rendering docs Cloudinary - Image and Video Upload, Store ad Monetization Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright 28:47 Canva API Build The Tools Behind Great Design | Canva Developers 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 Aug 202329min

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used a VCR? Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 00:57 Introducing Aiden Bai Aiden Bai aidenybai on GitHub @aidenybai on Twitter Aiden Bai on YouTube Million.js 01:57 What is Million.js? 03:20 How does React do rendering now? 04:31 How does Million.js make it faster? 07:37 What goes into creating a compiler? 08:24 How do you go from learning JavaScript to writing compilers? 11:05 Wyze WebRTC stream work 13:13 What are you using to benchmark and test? solidjs.com js-framework-benchmark xkcd: Compiling 18:19 What does a slowly rendering site look like? 23:54 How do you handle find on page with large amounts of code? 25:32 What does 70% faster with Million.js mean? Hyper™ Warp: Your terminal, reimagined 26:44 Why are maps slow? Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion — Syntax Podcast 643 28:19 Benefits of the Macro API 31:12 Does Million.js work across the board? 33:03 Does it ever break projects? How do you test Million.js? 35:35 How do you keep up on your GitHub issues? 37:40 What other areas of tech are you interested in working on? partytown 39:32 What was the inspiration for your website? 43:52 Supper Club questions Gruvbox with Material Palette iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Barbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) directed by Jeff Rowe • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Shameless Plugs Million Kitchen Sink 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

25 Aug 202350min

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott jump into part 2 of their look at Rust for JavaScript developers, including variables in Rust, type systems in Rust, signed and unsigned integers, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:43 Audio issue bugs 03:17 Building decks 06:06 Variables in Rust Syntax 647: Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts let x = 5; // x is immutable let mut x = 5; // x is mutable const MAX_POINTS: u32 = 100_000; // must be defined at compile time 10:42 Type System in Rust 15:52 Types in Rust 19:06 Why does Rust have signed and unsigned integers? 23:35 Slicing strings with &str 27:35 enum 27:55 struct 28:19 Vec 29:33 HashMap and HashSet 33:00 Converting Signed to Unsigned Numbers let unsigned_value: u8 = 200; let signed_value: i8 = unsigned_value as i8; 36:12 What’s up with &str? 43:31 Rust error messages 45:28 What is a Struct? struct User { username: String, email: String, sign_in_count: u64, active: bool, } // You can create an instance of a struct like this: let user1 = User { email: String::from("someone@example.com"), username: String::from("someusername123"), active: true, sign_in_count: 1, }; impl User { fn login(&mut self) { self.login_count += 1; } } 49:17 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Thermacell Patio Shield Wes: Magnet Phone Mount 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

23 Aug 202356min