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This podcast episode provides a comprehensive overview of building a web API, covering topics like the various layers and components involved, popular API types like REST and GraphQL, authentication and permissions, caching, database options, and more.
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This episode covers using PostCSS to write next generation CSS today including topics like postcss plugins, imports, nesting, custom media queries, env vars, and color functions.
Supper Club
Scott and Wes interview Primogen, a Twitch streamer and Vim user who talks about where his name comes from, the different types of coding streamers, and why people watch live coding.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer questions on object creation performance, VSCode types, standing desks, and more.
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Deno has announced compatibility with Node and NPM, making it easier to use existing packages. They also have the fastest JS web server and good TypeScript support, so Node may fall behind.
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Steve Ruiz discusses the development of his open source React drawing canvas TLDraw, explaining the inspiration and technology behind it.
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Wes and Scott discuss the first day of kindergarten, setting up Wes' new office, soundproofing with acoustic panels, and then transition to reviewing developer portfolios.
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Discussion of various techniques for handling margins and layout in CSS including collapsing margins, padding vs margins, flexbox, grid, and using spacer divs.
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Brandon Roberts discusses AppRight, an open source self-hosted backend for web and mobile apps. It provides database, auth, storage, functions and more out of the box.
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In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss the differences between public and private schools in Denver and the challenges of getting kids into preferred schools. They then provide an overview of threads, concurrency and parallelism in programming languages and how JavaScript only has a single thread. They use examples like green screening webcams to demonstrate when you may need to offload work to other threads using web workers.
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Scott and Wes celebrate 500 episodes by looking back at milestones, favorite moments and episodes, and answering listener questions.
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In this episode, Rich Harrison provides an intro to Svelte and discusses its developer experience benefits, templating language, immutability, compilation process, lack of virtual DOM, and more.
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Scott and Wes discuss the pros and cons of different web development jobs like agencies, tech companies, startups and freelancing.
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In this episode Scott and Wes discuss upcoming CSS proposals like at win/else, masonry layout, caret styling, nesting, env variables, and improvements to media queries.
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Josh Larson from Shopify discusses their new Hydrogen framework for building custom headless ecommerce stores using React and Shopify. He covers topics like server side rendering, React Server Components, and deploying the same code to multiple JavaScript environments.
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In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer developer questions on topics like caching slow APIs, generating PDFs from HTML, whether to learn SvelteKit before it hits v1, and more.
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Overview of major browser engines like Chromium, Gecko, WebKit and dive into lesser known mobile browsers to see if you need to support them.
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Lee Robinson from Vercel discusses React Suspense, selective hydration, Next.js, and performance techniques.
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Scott and Wes discuss frustrations with web development and wish for better defaults and APIs.
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Wes and Scott discuss ways to spark creativity and excitement in coding through fun side projects that serve no purpose.