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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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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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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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Scott and Wes explain JavaScript closures, scoping, and give examples of how closures can be useful.
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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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Wes shares 8 tricks for using the JavaScript Fetch API including streaming responses, tracking download progress, and handling errors.
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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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Discussion on why Facebook and Instagram HTML/CSS is messy - random CSS class names and excessive div wrappers.
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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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Scott and Wes discuss best practices for user feedback UI like toasts, flash messages and form validation.
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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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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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Wes and Scott discuss Lightning CSS - a fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler and minifier from the creator of Parcel. They cover the benefits of Lightning CSS including improved performance, support for future CSS syntax like nesting and color spaces, and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss top domain name registrars in light of Google Domains closing down. They compare pricing, features, UX and more across Namecheap, GoDaddy, Gandhi, Hover, Name.com, Cloudflare and others.
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Discussion on AsyncLocalStorage and Async Context API in JavaScript which allow accessing context down the call stack without passing references explicitly.
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Wes and Scott discuss using GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions to organize and automate your workflow.
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Discussion on values like none, 0, and hidden that essentially remove or undo something in CSS and HTML.
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Scott and Wes discuss JavaScript executables - standalone, portable executables containing your Node app, dependencies, and the runtime. They cover use cases, criticisms of large executable sizes, and potential ways to shrink executables.
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Discussion on why Node.js node_modules folders get so large and what actually takes up most of the space inside them.
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Discussion on what signals are, why frameworks are adopting them, and whether you need to use them in your apps.