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Topics covered include Shadow DOM vs light DOM, web scraping techniques, local first development, speeding up UI development with component libraries, affordable self-hosting options, syncing offline data, and using AI to summarize audio content.
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Scott and Wes discuss the CSS proposal for mixins and functions being added to the language. This will allow writing cleaner, more reusable code directly in CSS instead of needing a preprocessor.
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Discussion with Google Chrome extensions engineer about changes in Manifest V3, effects on ad blockers, bringing more APIs to service workers, and building extensions.
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Scott and Wes discuss tips for becoming a better developer, getting a better job, and improving your life.
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Discussion about cache invalidation issues when caching user-specific data, solutions like using different URLs, partial caching, edge functions, and drawbacks like flash of unstyled content.
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In this episode Scott and Wes Bos interview Corbin Crutchley, author of the Framework Field Guide, about his experiences with and comparisons of React, Vue and Angular.
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This episode covers different categories of UI component libraries for building web apps, from low-level headless utilities to full featured design systems. Key factors in choosing a UI library are functionality, accessibility, styling, and ability to adapt the components.
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Scott and Wes discuss the latest web development news in 2010 including jQuery 1.2, mobile apps with HTML5, custom fonts, rounded corner CSS, Node.js, WordPress 2.3 and more.
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Anne and Trudy discuss their backgrounds working with Shopify and building their app Design Packs which adds sections and templates to Shopify themes.
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Wes and Scott discuss fitness tips for developers including getting started with working out, having a home gym, diet, motivation, supplements and more.
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Explaining what middleware is and examples of how it's commonly used in web development for things like authentication, caching, error handling, etc.
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David Flanagan explains Kubernetes, containers, WebAssembly, and self-hosted infrastructure to Wes and Scott. He provides tips for managing your own servers and recommendations for learning more.
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The hosts discuss trends in modern JavaScript tooling including performance gains from writing tools in Rust and Go. They overview established tools like ESLint and Prettier as well as new tools like Biome, Oxc, ESBuild, and Rollup.
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An overview of Docker geared towards web developers - what it is, why its useful, how to get started, core concepts, tools, and some pitfalls.
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Cameron McAfee has a diverse background spanning design, development and products. Known for creating memorable brands and experiences, he aims to build tools that solve problems for creators.
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Potluck episode covering various web dev topics like TypeScript migration approaches, home office recommendations, semantic versioning basics, and preferred books/podcasts
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Wes and Scott quiz each other on advanced TypeScript features and syntax in a segment they call 'Stumped'.
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Wes, the developer of the Transformers.js library from Hugging Face, discusses running hundreds of AI models locally using JavaScript and WebAssembly, with applications in vision, audio, text and more.
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This episode covers the concept of local first web development, where apps work offline first and then sync data in the background. The ideals, principles, tools, and sample projects around this concept are explored.
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Discussion on writing small scripts to help coworkers and improve workflows using tools like FFmpeg, AI, and automation
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JSR is a new open source JavaScript package registry focused on modern JavaScript and TypeScript, with advanced features like publishing TypeScript directly, auto docs and types, and seamless Node compatibility.
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CJ Reynolds joins the Syntax podcast and shares his background in development, live coding, teaching, and more. They discuss his career path, interest in trying new technologies, approach to teaching and live coding, and some non-coding hobbies and interests.
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Wes recounts how the Taliban taking over Afghanistan resulted in his bos.af domain being revoked, and discusses the intricacies and risks of getting clever country code top-level domains.
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Carson Gross, creator of HTMX, discusses its origins, performance characteristics, integration with various backends, upcoming version 2, his Twitter antics, and desire for less tribalism among web developers.
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In this JavaScript and web development podcast episode, Scott and Wes discuss Sentry debugging, changes to iOS browsers, scroll and cursor event interception, accurate timers with setInterval, Chrome extension changes, and inconsistencies with JavaScript's Date API.
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Discussion on properly setting up DMARC, SPF and DKIM to ensure your transactional and marketing emails reach the inbox rather than spam.
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Alex Sexton from Stripe discusses CSP (Content Security Policy) and client side security best practices, drawing on 11 years of experience at Stripe.
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Discussion on options for self-hosting a platform as a service to avoid expensive monthly per user charges from hosted providers.
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This episode covers the new native CSS scoping feature using the @scope rule, how it works, what problems it solves, and browser support status.
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Kevin Howe from Codium discusses how their AI coding assistant works, focusing on features like fast autocomplete, code context awareness, and data privacy.
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Overview of main web development technologies by category with opinions on best options for beginners
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HTMLX is a small library for swapping out parts of your UI with responses from a server. It brings back AJAX and is not a full replacement for React.
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Jen Simmons discusses her work on web standards at Apple, the recent acceleration of Safari development, advanced color spaces in CSS, and the future of layout with CSS Grid and Masonry.
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Scott and Wes discuss their weekends, advertisers, new staff, and take listener questions on JS libraries, in app browsers, and generators.
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Covers new Svelte 5 features focused on speed, simplicity and smaller bundles including the $state, $effect and $props syntax changes.
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Google Chrome developer relations engineer Thomas Steiner discusses Project Fugu, an effort to enable any app idea to be built on the web by inventing new browser APIs like web Bluetooth, file system access, shape detection, and more.
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Podcast explaining the Drizzle ORM for interacting with databases like MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.
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Discussion on how time works on computers and issues that arise when working with dates and time in JavaScript. Covers time infrastructure, standards, and new Temporal API.
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Brian Larew discusses his opinions on avoiding bundlers, using enhanced dev to build web apps, and his perspective on the AWS re:Invent conference.
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In-depth discussion on new React server components feature including server-side rendering, async data fetching, forms, suspense and more.