Potluck × Meeting IRL × SSG vs SSR × Domain Privacy

In this Potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about meeting IRL, bookmarks, SSG vs SSR, domain privacy, deploying monorepos, and more.

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Show Notes

• 00:08 Welcome
• 01:20 Weather updates
• 02:21 How often have you gotten together in real life?
• Jamstack Conf
• Reactathon
• 05:33 What are people using to bookmark sites?
• Arc Browser
• 09:03 When not to use Static Site Generation (SSG), and when to use Server-side Rendering (SSR)?
• Svelte Kit
• 13:53 How do you do correct error handling to catch everything?
• Sentry.io
• 21:13 Sponsor: Sentry
• 22:50 Is there any benefit to using getters and setters in classes set them over plain methods?
• 27:47 Will there ever be a js framework that can SSR on a non-JS backend?
• Render
• pnpm
• 32:40 Have either of you thought about learning and teaching Python or Django?
• 34:56 What is your opinion on purchasing "Domain Privacy" with each domain?
• 37:49 Sponsor: Sanity
• 38:44 Domain privacy continued
• 39:22 How you deploy monorepo packages?
• Tanstack
• Vite
• 43:48 As a member of a non margin group should I avoid applying for jobs when they say they welcome applicants who are of a marginalized group to support diversity?
• 46:12 When would you, if ever, choose good-old React over something like Next JS?
• 53:24 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 54:16 Is it preferred to import via absolute reference or relative reference?
• 00:23 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Air Compressor
• Wes: Blue Flush Cutter Mini Diagonal Cutting Pliers Side Cutter Nippers Wire Cutter

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• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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