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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer audience questions on web development topics like Bun JS, REST vs GraphQL APIs, learning Rust, documenting code, WordPress APIs, becoming a podcast guest, and using home gym equipment.
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Discussion on proper semantic usage of h1 through h6 headings for accessibility, SEO, and screen reader navigation.
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Taylor Desseyn discusses strategies for engineers to stand out in the hiring process, including the importance of social proofing through content creation. He also provides insights into current trends like the developer hiring recession and shift towards back end engineers.
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Wes and Scott discuss the State of CSS developer survey results, covering usage of new CSS features like subgrid, aspect ratio, relative colors, variable fonts, accessibility preferences, and more.
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Discussion comparing Tori and Electron for building desktop apps using web technologies. Covers differences in bundle sizes, developer experience, maturity and more.
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Dr. Courtney Tolinski discusses anxiety disorders, symptoms, causes and healthy ways to manage anxiety. She answers questions on recognizing triggers, career anxiety in web development, and making big life decisions.
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Wes and Scott discuss their experiences building apps with Svelte and SvelteKit. They cover templating, data fetching, state management, actions, layouts, styling and more.
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Scott proxies requests from his Tonal workout device to reverse engineer the API and build custom community workouts since Tonal has limited functionality.
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Stuart discusses his journey from working in a family business to becoming a self-taught web developer, including how he prepared for interviews, built projects, and made time for learning while having a family.
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Scott and Wes discuss the projects they built during a hack week at Sentry, including a real-time markdown editor and an automated recording button.
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Wes and Scott discuss the new CSS nesting syntax that is now supported across all major browsers. They cover how it works, best practices, use cases compared to Sass, browser support via transpiling, and more.
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In this episode, Fred Schott discusses the Astro 3.0 release and new features like view transitions, image optimization, open source sustainability, and more.
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In this episode Scott and Wes answer developer questions on various web development topics like TypeScript, performance, CMS, and more. They also discuss personal topics like dog DNA tests and how they organize their code.
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Scott and Wes explain JavaScript closures, scoping, and give examples of how closures can be useful.
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Mark Erikson explains the complexity of shipping JavaScript packages that work across many environments,tools and module systems, with details on his work updating Redux libraries to add ESM support.
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Scott and Wes catch up on life outside of coding including concerts, home projects, fitness goals, and more. They also recommend a steam cleaner and a sci-fi kids book.
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Scott and Wes discuss techniques for dynamically generating social media preview images known as open graph or OG images using services like Satori, Cloudinary, and Puppeteer.
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Aiden Bai discusses Million.js, a library that makes React rendering up to 70% faster by replacing the virtual DOM diffing process. He shares how it works, use cases, and his motivations for improving web performance.
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In part 2 of Rust for JavaScript developers, Scott and Wes dive deeper into Rust's type system, talking about integer types, strings, string slices, arrays, tuples, and other collection types. They also cover defining structs, adding methods, and other fundamentals.
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Wes shares 8 tricks for using the JavaScript Fetch API including streaming responses, tracking download progress, and handling errors.
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Andrew Lizowski discusses how video editor Descript is built with web technology like Web Codecs and XState. He covers the AI transcription and voice features, using Radix and Tailwind for components, and reliable end-to-end testing with Playwright.
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Overview of 6 new approved and proposed JavaScript APIs in various stages - ranging from shipped to just proposed. Covers Promise resolvers, immutable arrays, array grouping, observable events, import assertions, Map.emplace(), decorators and pattern matching.
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Scott and Wes discuss JavaScript decorators - what they are, how to use them, their current status, and potential future use cases.
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Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz JS, discusses Flight Control which lets you deploy apps on your AWS account with a great developer experience. Covers serverless deployment, preview environments, Docker, build caches, and more.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions about TypeScript, preventing back pain while programming, and options for limiting cloud service costs.
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Discussion on why Facebook and Instagram HTML/CSS is messy - random CSS class names and excessive div wrappers.
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Ryan Florence discusses Remix, a React web framework he created with Michael Jackson. Topics include Remix's architecture, licensing model, adoption, and how it pioneered concepts like serverless functions.
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Overview of standard APIs for JavaScript that work across server side runtimes like Node, Deno and Cloudflare workers.
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Compares JavaScript and Rust at a high level, including cargo, documentation, async/await, error handling, syntax differences, and more.
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Andres Reinman discusses the history and complexity of email protocols and clients, building Nodemailer, DMARC authentication, avoiding spam filters, and his email products Email Engine and Ethereal Email.
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Wes and Scott discuss polyfilling, transpiling, and monkey patching - what they are, when to use each, and tools that can help.
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Scott and Wes discuss best practices for user feedback UI like toasts, flash messages and form validation.
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Discussion with Jake Champion about WebAssembly, Fastly ComputeEdge, and Polyfill.io.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like React and CSS, JavaScript notebooks, selling domains, balancing learning as a new parent, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss best practices for asking for help with libraries and open source projects like providing reproductions, being responsive and respectful, searching existing issues first, and sharing code context.
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Steve Krause introduces val.town, a social platform for writing and running code snippets. He discusses the inspiration behind val.town, using Deno and Render for the backend, common use cases like IoT and webhooks, recommendations for learning coding, and building an engaged community.
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Scott and Wes use AI to generate challenging interview questions and quiz each other on web development topics ranging from JavaScript to CSS history.
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Discussion on using AI tools like CodeAI, CodeWhisperer, Copilot, lintrule, opencommit, Ghostwriter, Codegeeks, Codeum AI, TabNine, and ChatGPT for tasks like documentation, optimization, code generation, data formatting, commit messages and more. Notes the importance of validating any AI-generated code before use in production.
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Scott and Wes chat with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary's developer experience, AI media capabilities like image filling and background removal, building SDKs and components for frameworks like Next.js and Svelte, Colby's own YouTube channel and creative process, and advice for beginners.
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Scott and Wes discuss headless components - reusable components that provide functionality without any UI. They talk about various headless component libraries, building accessible components, using headless WordPress, running headless Chrome, and more.