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Supper Club × Syed Balkhi and WordPress
Saeed Balkhi discusses growing his company AwesomeMotive from a WordPress tutorial blog into a suite of over 30 web services and software tools.
#WordPress#Blogging#SaaS
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Potluck! Node Versions, Old Man Internet, Responsive Design + MORE
Wes and Scott discuss resolving NPM errors when starting old projects, compatibility across Node versions, and specifying required versions in package.json.
#node#npm#compatibility#errors
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What is Bun? The New JS Runtime
This episode covers Bun, a new JavaScript runtime focused on performance and batteries included tools like a bundler and transpiler.
#JavaScript#Performance
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Supper Club × Adam Cowley and Neo4j Database
Adam Cowley from Neo4j explains graph databases, how they work, use cases, and how to query data with Cypher. He discusses how Neo4j can be used in web development.
#Databases#Neo4j
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Our Code Styles
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott discuss their coding styles and preferences in JavaScript and CSS.
#JavaScript#CSS#TypeScript
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STUMP’D Interview Coding Questions
Wes and Scott play a game of Stumped, asking each other random interview questions and trying to explain the answers.
#JavaScript#HTML#CSS#Interview Prep
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Supper Club × 70,000 Serverless Functions with Kristi Perreault of Liberty Mutual
Christy Perreault from Liberty Mutual discusses how they leverage serverless to support 5000 developers building customer-facing and internal apps. She covers Liberty Mutual's journey from on-prem to serverless, the costs savings and auto-scaling benefits, supporting developer preferences, and local development recommendations.
#serverless#aws#developers
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Potluck - Peer Dependencies × Vitest × NVM and PNPM × Sprites
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss NAS networking, Home Assistant, peer dependencies in npm, and transpilation when using Vite and Vitest.
#npm#networking#testing
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Clamp & Interpolate
Scott explains numeric clamping and interpolation, demonstrating how these techniques can help control values and create animations. He highlights the d3-interpolate library for interpolating numbers, colors, dates, and more.
#JavaScript#Animation#Math
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Supper Club × Voice Coding with Pokey Rule
Pokey Rule discusses coding by voice with Talon instead of keyboard due to RSI, creating grammars to map voice commands to actions, and demonstrates voice coding.
#Talon#Voice Coding#RSI
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10 years of Speaking + Conferences
Wes and Scott discuss their experiences with conference speaking over the past 10 years, including the benefits like gaining legitimacy, improving public speaking skills, making connections, and traveling.
#speaking#conferences#connections
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CSS5 Color Functions
In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss upcoming CSS color functions that will allow developers to programmatically modify colors, including mixing colors, getting color contrasts, and altering color properties like hue, saturation, and lightness.
#CSS#Accessibility#Design
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Supper Club × Developer Experience with Shawn Wang
In this SX dinner club episode, Sean Wang aka Swyx discusses developer experience (DX) - what it is, why it matters, how tools like React and Svelte compare, and how DevRel roles are evolving.
#react#svelte#devrel
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Tips for Communicating
Communication tips for email, meetings, code reviews, spanning topics like numbering questions, bolding important parts, using paragraphs, and recognizing when you're asking a lot.
#Email#Communication#Writing#Productivity
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Browser CSS Page Transitions API aka Shared Element Transitions
Discussion of a new browser API proposal for smooth page transitions on the web, allowing for animated transitions between pages similar to native mobile apps.
#webapi#animations#transitions
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Supper Club × Authoring Browser Extensions with Tim Leland
Discussion with Tim Leland who has built several successful browser extensions like a weather extension using Dark Sky and a URL shortener called t.ly. He talks about how he builds and monetizes the extensions.
#Extensions#API#Growth
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Home Automation - A Look Ahead
An overview of home automation protocols, software options like Homebridge, how it leads to family buy-in, and the ways automation can improve upon analog problems.
#smart home#protocols#customization
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New Viewport Units
Wes and Scott discuss new viewport units in CSS that help deal with things like the URL bar shifting on mobile browsers.
#css#mobile#viewport
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Supper Club × Edge Functions and Deno with Eduardo Bouças of Netlify
Discussion with Eduardo Bocas from Netlify about edge functions, Deno, serverless, and more.
#serverless#edge computing#Deno
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Potluck - Headless WordPress, Databases, Regex
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like hosting databases, learning new programming languages, fitness goals, CSS environment variables, and more.
#Programming#JavaScript
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I can has() new CSS Selector?!
Wes and Scott discuss new CSS selectors like has(), where() and is() that allow powerful new ways to select elements.
#CSS#Front End
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Supper Club × Is No Code going to take our jobs? with Connor Finlayson
Connor Finlayson discusses the no code movement, whether it will replace developers, popular no code tools like Webflow and Airtable, resources for learning, and advice for beginners.
#NoCode#WebDevelopment#Webflow#Airtable
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Syntax Live at Reactathon
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski host a live podcast episode from Reactathon, featuring debates, old code, syntax errors, JS or NAS, and audience Q&A.
#javascript#webdev#podcast
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Stopping Malicious Actors
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss ways that malicious actors can abuse your web application, and different techniques to prevent abuse like rate limiting, shadow banning, tokens, CAPTCHA, and more.
#security#bots#spam
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Supper Club × Coding Burnout and Gardening with Anselm Hannemann
Wes and Scott talk with Anselm Hannemann about how he transitioned from web developer to gardener to avoid burnout, the joys of growing your own food, and tips for avoiding burnout in the tech industry.
#burnout#gardening#career change
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Git in VS Code
Wes and Scott discuss using Git version control in VS Code, including built-in features and extensions that enhance the developer workflow.
#git#vs code
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Cache Control Headers Explained
Discussion on how cache control headers work and how they can be used to improve website performance.
#Caching#Performance#Headers
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Supper Club × RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, discusses his work on RedwoodJS, an opinionated fullstack JS framework to help developers build and scale web apps faster.
#javascript#frameworks#startups
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TypeScript Tooling Explained
Overview of the various TypeScript tooling options including type checkers, compilers, build tools, IDEs, configs, and recommendations for server-side usage.
#typescript#tooling#compilers
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Scott’s New Office × The Levelup Lodge
In this episode, Scott gives a tour of his home office setup called the LevelUp Lodge, going over all the gear, lighting, audio equipment, tech and other elements that make it an ideal workspace.
#Office Setup#Home Office#Productivity
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Supper Club × Turborepo with Jared Palmer
Jared Palmer discusses Turborepo, monorepos, efficient workflows, and getting acquired by Vercel.
#Turborepo#Monorepos#Podcasts
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Potluck - Protestware × NoSQL × Next.js × ESM × Jest
Wes and Scott answer listener questions about Next.js, database options, build tools, protestware packages, and game development.
#Next.js#Open Source
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Why do we need Web Interop? Another Standards Body?
Wes and Scott discuss a new initiative by Cloudflare and others to improve web interoperability across various JavaScript runtime environments like browsers, Node.js and edge functions.
#javascript#webdev
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Supper Club × NX Monorepos with Victor Savkin
Victor Savkin discusses NX, a development environment and build system designed for monorepos. He covers the core orchestration features, optional plugins, caching, distribution, migrations, and more.
#JavaScript#Monorepo#Build Tools
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10 Nifty Browser APIs
Discussion of 10 interesting browser APIs for accessing user data and hardware like webcam, geolocation, animations, speech, and more.
#APIs#JavaScript
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TypeScript Fundamentals × Narrowing, Discriminating Unions, and Type Guards
An episode discussing TypeScript fundamentals like type narrowing, discriminated unions, and strategies for type guards.
#TypeScript#JavaScript
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WTF is the Edge? Edge Compute / Functions
Discussion on what edge computing is, how it works, use cases, upsides and downsides.
#edge computing#edge functions#serverless
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Why do people still use Axios over Fetch?
Wes and Scott discuss why developers still use the Axios library instead of the native fetch API for network requests in JavaScript. They go over various features like interceptors, progress events, and adapters that make Axios powerful.
#javascript#webdev#axios#fetch
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JavaScript × STUMP’D
Wes and Scott quiz each other on random JavaScript interview questions and discuss techniques and concepts like weak maps, promises, and variable swapping.
#JavaScript
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Building a Coupon Engine
Scott and Wes discuss strategies and challenges around building custom coupon logic and engines for ecommerce sites and course platforms. They share tips on implementing constraints, conditional rules, tracking, expiration, and more.
#Coupons#Ecommerce#Payments