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This episode discusses the Machine Context Protocol (MCP), which is a standardized protocol that allows large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to communicate with and control other applications and services. They talk about what MCP is, why it's useful, some examples of MCP servers, and how you can build your own MCP tools.
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The history behind the Syntax podcast, from its beginnings in 2016 to being acquired by Sentry in 2021.
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Discussion on adding light and dark modes to sites, considerations when doing so, and new CSS features to help
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Discussion on options and best practices for accepting payments online in 2025, including overview of payment processors, managing checkout flows, and avoiding fraud.
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Wes and Scott discuss planning decisions for the Syntax v3 site rebuild including project management, code structure, tooling strategies, UI patterns, and more.
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In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss monorepos, outdated Node packages, local storage, Next.js queries, Cloudflare Workers, ZeroSync with SvelteKit, full stack development, server update polling, domain names, and advice for new developers.
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Discussion about AI assisted coding called vibe coding, where inexperienced developers quickly build apps by repeatedly prompting and tweaking code without closely reviewing it.
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Scott explains SST for configuring infrastructure on AWS and other providers, setting up a dev environment, debugging issues, and managing staging/production.
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Covers custom web fonts, strategies for handling font downloads, variable fonts for creative effects, and the text box trim/edge properties to control spacing.
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The TypeScript team has ported the TypeScript compiler and tools to native Node code, realizing about a 10x performance improvement across parsing, type checking and emitting.
