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Wes and Scott talk about how much web development tools, languages and infrastructure have improved over the past 5-10 years, making developers' lives easier and code simpler and more powerful.
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss their experiences using GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type.
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Wes and Scott discuss techniques and tips for troubleshooting code and software systems.
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Wes and Scott discuss their experiences switching to the new 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro for development and creative work
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Potluck episode covering GitHub Copilot, glasses, stress, company sizes, design, CMS, security and more.
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Scott and Wes discuss the new features in Next.js 12 including a new Rust compiler, middleware support, React 18 support, AVIF image support, bot detection for ISR, ES modules, and more.
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Tomac joins to discuss StackBlitz, an online IDE powered by web containers and running environments like Node directly in the browser via WebAssembly.
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Wes and Scott discuss Astro, a new framework for building fast static websites using components and minimal client-side JavaScript.
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Scott and Wes play a game of Stumped focused on CSS interview questions to quiz each other's knowledge.
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Scott explains how to set up a monorepo using PNPM workspaces, with benefits like faster installs and easier sharing of code between projects.
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Scott and Wes share horror stories submitted by developers about production bugs, data loss, performance issues, and more.
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Scott and Wes read funny and cringeworthy stories submitted by developers about mistakes they've made that caused bugs, crashes, and other issues.
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Scott and Wes answer questions on policies, teaching, hubs, GraphQL, code, CSS, MongoDB, services, security, upgrades, sites, values, backup and images in a fun potluck show.
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Scott and Wes discuss JUST, a small JavaScript utility function library, its use cases and benefits over larger libraries like Lodash.
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Covers how Wes and Scott run every aspect of the Syntax podcast from recording, planning, editing, promoting, sponsors, and more.
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Discussion of current and upcoming CSS color features like contrast functions, accent colors, color mixing, new color spaces and alpha transparency options.
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions on a variety of web development topics including building portfolio sites, Svelte testing, MDX, WordPress hosting strategies, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss the merits of PHP and how modern JavaScript frameworks are reinventing many of its features like mixing logic and templates, hot reloading, and more.
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Web development podcast hosts compete in a game show testing their knowledge of frontend development.
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Scott and Wes discuss new and popular developer tools and apps like Lucylang state machines, MD Specs for Svelte, Fig terminal autocomplete, Warp terminal in Rust, Raycast app launcher, Obsidian note taking app, and Descript audio/video editor.
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Scott rewrote his Level Up Tutorials site from React to SvelteKit and discusses his experience with the transition.
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Wes and Scott explain what webhooks are and how to use them for communication between servers and services.
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Overview of new JavaScript language features added in ECMAScript 2022 including top level await, the array .at() method, private fields and methods in classes, regex indices and more.
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Wes Bos describes his experience getting Starlink satellite internet installed at his rural cottage, reviewing the speeds, latency, equipment, and networking setup.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes bid farewell to the Syntax studio while discussing Sass, Houdini, building without JS, decentralized data with Solid, bartering skills, DRM, Linux laptops, using React and GraphQL with Svelte, MongoDB with Prisma, and predictions for Webpack's future.
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Wes and Scott discuss the different strict mode settings in TypeScript and why they can prevent bugs.
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Scott and Wes go through a series of JavaScript coding interview questions, testing each other's knowledge on topics like first class functions, preventing default behavior, weak maps and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss signs of toxic clients for freelancers like unclear project vision, scope creep, poor communication, rudeness, and bragging.
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Scott and Wes share tips and advice for new developers just starting out, covering topics like learning fundamentals, debugging, soft skills, struggles all developers face, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss common complaints about CSS and solutions like using Flexbox and Grid, avoiding IDs and !important, debugging in dev tools, and planning CSS structure.
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Wes and Scott answer listener questions on React components, freelancing, ethics, moist code, debugging fonts, and more during a fun potluck episode.
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Discussion on the various uses of the link HTML tag beyond just linking.
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Emailer asks Wes and Scott to explain the basics of building a website from scratch using HTML, CSS and JavaScript for beginners with no experience.
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Scott and Wes discuss TypeScript utility types, explaining what they are and why you might use them.
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Wes and Scott answer developer questions about WordPress vs advanced tech for clients, backend hosting, Drupal, CSS strategies, preparing for job interviews, home cooling fan setups, and podcast recommendations.
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Wes and Scott discuss the latest and greatest in web development including GitHub Copilot, Next.js 11, Astro, Notion API, Petite Vue, Stackblitz, Solid JS 1.0, Stately, and Web3.
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Wes and Scott from Syntax podcast join Chris and Dave from ShopTalk podcast for a crossover episode. They discuss their podcast goals, current web development stacks they use and like such as Next.js and SvelteKit, how WordPress compares, and more.
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This episode covers different techniques and best practices for favicons, including file formats, sizes, optimization, animation, dark mode support, and more.
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In today's potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer listener questions on topics like Svelte vs React, severing project ties, permissions-based APIs, Rescript, and more.
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Scott and Wes discuss Stylelint, a powerful linting tool for CSS that helps enforce code quality and consistency.