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This episode covers immutable records and tuples in JavaScript - new proposed syntax for creating objects and arrays that are deeply immutable and support deep equality checks.
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Covers Git fundamentals and basic commands
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss the first money they made from web development, including client projects, ad revenue, product sales, teaching gigs, and agency work.
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Scott and Wes discuss frameworks, tools, scoping, and writing maintainable CSS.
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Wes and Scott discuss time block planning, a productivity technique that involves scheduling all of your tasks, appointments, and breaks on a calendar to help manage your limited work hours.
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Scott and Wes discuss outdated web development techniques like table layouts, clearfixes, splash screens, guestbooks, Flash, and more.
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Wes talks about converting a shed in his backyard into a home office during the pandemic
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Scott and Wes discuss the recent Mozilla layoffs and impact on web development, strategies for learning web development while working a full time job, and answer audience questions on React drag and drop, testing, analytics, malicious GitHub users, and more.
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Scott and Wes wrap up season 1 of Syntax and discuss plans for season 2, favorite episodes of the year, and the top 10 most downloaded episodes so far.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions on topics like MDX, ordering CSS properties, explaining complex code, portfolio projects for junior devs, the Sails.js framework, and using the replacer parameter in JSON.stringify().
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski quiz each other on web development questions in a game called "Stumped" with silly banter
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Podcast discussing React, Node, careers, parenting, CSS, and whether custom solutions are better than pre-built tools like CMSs.
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss tips for improving Gatsby websites, including layouts, animations, build optimization, and more.
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Adam Argyle explains the overall process for how new features and specifications get added to CSS, ranging from initial proposals to testing, implementing, and eventually becoming a standard.
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Scott and Wes discuss evaluating and refining personal systems and processes to improve productivity and efficiency.
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Scott and Wes discuss and compare several React state management libraries including Context, Redux, XState, Apollo, and more. They talk about the pros and cons of each, when you might want to use them, and share their experiences.
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Scott and Wes discuss upgrading the Syntax.fm site to use latest version of Next.js, including lessons learned from implementing API routes, static regeneration for new episodes, and more.
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Discussion with Meteor evangelist Felipe Nivola on Meteor's acquisition, the state of Meteor today, and what's coming up for the platform.
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Discussion on the security implications of links that open in a new tab or window, and browser fixes to prevent malicious sites from accessing the opener window
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Potluck episode covering procrastination, planning code, CSS, leadership skills, side projects and more
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Overview of Turbolinks for fast page loads using server-generated HTML and discussion of integration with JavaScript frameworks.
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Overview of options and considerations for hosting and streaming video in 2020 with a deep dive into the tech stack Scott chose for his site
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Wes and Scott play a guessing game to identify obscure top level domain names. After falling behind early, Scott makes a dramatic comeback in later rounds to ultimately win.
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Discussion with Jerome Hardaway, executive director of Vets Who Code, on his background, founding VWC, their tech stack, being an ally, and skills learned in the military
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Discussion of various techniques like honeypots, IP throttling, and CAPTCHAs to secure web forms from spam bots and malicious users while allowing legitimate use.
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Wes and Scott discuss things they wish React and its ecosystem had out of the box without additional libraries and tooling.
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Wes explains the various rural internet options available, the specific hardware needed to set up cellular internet, data plan considerations, and steps through his own setup at his cottage property without traditional ISP access.
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Potluck episode discussing libraries vs frameworks, browser choices, career questions, XState, styled components, podcast picks and more.
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Covers lesser known but useful CSS functions for accessing attributes, calculations, selecting children, trigonometry, clamping values, equal columns in grid, fitting content, and image filters.
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Covers terminal, typing, OS skills, GitHub, dev tools, and other web development basics and best practices.
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Scott talks about his bad luck with Apple laptops and his new System76 Lemur Pro laptop running Pop!OS Linux distro for development instead.
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Ian Ramsay discusses building a WebRTC-based video chat called ZipCall and his journey into programming
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski continue their series on web performance, focusing on tips for making websites work well on slow Internet connections.
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This podcast episode provides a breakdown of headless CMS options, including hosted, self-hosted and API-based systems. Scott and Wes discuss key considerations when evaluating CMS choices and provide an overview of popular options in each category.
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Developing websites and apps to work well on slow, spotty, or offline connections by implementing things like service workers, skeleton screens, better loading indicators, and gracefully handling failures.
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In this potluck/Q&A episode, Scott and Wes discuss end-to-end testing, hosting podcast RSS feeds, Prismic CMS, education, git workflows, scaling challenges and new React frameworks.
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Discussion on whether web developers should continue supporting Internet Explorer 11, including metrics to help decide, strategies for partial support, and modern features you can start using once IE11 support is dropped.
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In this episode Scott teaches Wes about Svelte, a new JavaScript framework that compiles away unused code for blazing fast performance. They cover features like built-in reactivity, cleaner templates vs JSX, routing with HTML anchors, and animations/transitions.
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Scott talks about his new personal website that he built using Svelte and Sapper. He took a relaxed approach and focused on custom animations, brutalist design, and fast performance rather than perfect code.
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Covers new JavaScript features coming in ES2019 and ES2020 including flat map, knowledge coalescing, global this, optional chaining and more.