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Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?
Discussion on why Facebook and Instagram HTML/CSS is messy - random CSS class names and excessive div wrappers.
#facebook#css#react
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Supper Club
Supper Club × Ryan Florence of Remix
Ryan Florence discusses Remix, a React web framework he created with Michael Jackson. Topics include Remix's architecture, licensing model, adoption, and how it pioneered concepts like serverless functions.
#Remix#React#WebDevelopment
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Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More
Overview of standard APIs for JavaScript that work across server side runtimes like Node, Deno and Cloudflare workers.
#serverless#nodejs#javascript
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Rust for JavaScript Developers - Node vs Rust Concepts
Compares JavaScript and Rust at a high level, including cargo, documentation, async/await, error handling, syntax differences, and more.
#javascript#rust#nodejs
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Supper Club × Email Sending, Spam, DMARC, SPF, Styling, and more with Andris Reinman
Andres Reinman discusses the history and complexity of email protocols and clients, building Nodemailer, DMARC authentication, avoiding spam filters, and his email products Email Engine and Ethereal Email.
#email#history#nodejs
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Polyfills, Transpiling and Monkey Patching
Wes and Scott discuss polyfilling, transpiling, and monkey patching - what they are, when to use each, and tools that can help.
#javascript#webdev#polyfill#transpile
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User Feedback UI - Toasts, Flash, Validation
Scott and Wes discuss best practices for user feedback UI like toasts, flash messages and form validation.
#UX#Accessibility#Forms
Supper Club
Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion
Discussion with Jake Champion about WebAssembly, Fastly ComputeEdge, and Polyfill.io.
#webassembly#edge-computing#polyfills
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Potluck × CSS Variables in React × JS Notebooks × Selling a Domain
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like React and CSS, JavaScript notebooks, selling domains, balancing learning as a new parent, and more.
#css#react#javascript#domains
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Help Me Help You - How To Ask For Help
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.
#GitHub#Bugs#Help#Support
Supper Club
Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse
Steve Krause introduces val.town, a social platform for writing and running code snippets. He discusses the inspiration behind val.town, using Deno and Render for the backend, common use cases like IoT and webhooks, recommendations for learning coding, and building an engaged community.
#serverless#coding#education
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Stump’d × JavaScript × GraphQL × Memory Safety × Web History
Scott and Wes use AI to generate challenging interview questions and quiz each other on web development topics ranging from JavaScript to CSS history.
#JavaScript
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Roundup - Sick AI Tools For Developers
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.
#AI#Productivity
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Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock
Scott and Wes chat with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary's developer experience, AI media capabilities like image filling and background removal, building SDKs and components for frameworks like Next.js and Svelte, Colby's own YouTube channel and creative process, and advice for beginners.
#cloudinary#ai#media#images
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What are Headless Components?
Scott and Wes discuss headless components - reusable components that provide functionality without any UI. They talk about various headless component libraries, building accessible components, using headless WordPress, running headless Chrome, and more.
#headless#accessibility#components
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Lightning CSS
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.
#CSS#Frontend
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Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher
Armin Ronacher discusses designing performant queues and backpressure systems to handle massive scale at Sentry. He also shares his views on Python, JavaScript, Rust and staying up to date.
#Python#Queues#Scale#Sentry
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WTF is an ORM
Wes and Scott discuss what ORMs are, popular options like Prisma and Drizzle, schema vs models, and migrations. They also joke about dentists, pronunciation in tech, and share recommendations.
#ORM#Database#Prisma#Drizzle
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Where to Register a Domain
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.
#web-dev#domains
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Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau
Dustin Schau discusses leading the Gatsby and Valhalla teams, using GraphQL as a data layer, low-code solutions for CMS editing, thoughts on React server components, and plans for improving Gatsby performance and integration. He also shares his editor setup, what tech stack he would use today, and his Ubuntu home theater setup.
#GraphQL#Jamstack#React
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Potluck × Warp × Skeleton UI × Edge Functions × Donut Scoping
Wes and Scott discuss upcoming conferences, computer issues, and strategies for working with rate limited APIs.
#Conferences#APIs
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AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API
Discussion on AsyncLocalStorage and Async Context API in JavaScript which allow accessing context down the call stack without passing references explicitly.
#javascript#nodejs#webdev
Supper Club
Supper Club × JavaScript on Hardware, Micro Controllers, ESP32 with Nick Hehr
Nick Hehr discusses running JavaScript on microcontrollers with ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico using the Excess engine, challenges around tooling and standards, and how he builds projects with it.
#javascript#iot#hardware
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Electronics for Beginners
Wes gives an overview of basic electronics concepts like voltage, amperage, microcontrollers, coding, and projects he has built.
#electronics#IoT#DIY
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GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions
Wes and Scott discuss using GitHub Projects, Milestones, Labels, and Actions to organize and automate your workflow.
#GitHub#Automation
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Supper Club × OpenAI, Future of programming, LLMs, and Math with Andrey Mishchenko
Andrey Mashenko from OpenAI discusses developing plugins for ChatGPT, training language models, the future of programming and work, and aiming for artificial general intelligence.
#AI#ChatGPT#OpenAI#Future of Work
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Is JSDoc Better than TypeScript?
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss Svelte's recent move from TypeScript to using JSDoc for typing, explaining what JSDoc is and its benefits over regular TypeScript.
#JSDoc#TypeScript#Svelte
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Nothing in CSS - 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset
Discussion on values like none, 0, and hidden that essentially remove or undo something in CSS and HTML.
#CSS#HTML#Accessibility
Supper Club
Supper Club × Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit on Github Next
GitHub's R&D team discusses pioneering AI developer tools like Copilot and shares insights on creating reliable, intuitive experiences. They examine challenges like latency, trust, feedback and rethinking workflows in light of AI capabilities.
#AI#GitHub#Developers#Engineering
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The New Syntax Site × Ingest, Stack, AI and more
Scott and Wes discuss building the infrastructure and backend for the new Syntax.fm website. Topics include choosing SvelteKit, setting up GitHub OAuth, integrating PostCSS, and leveraging AI for automated podcast transcription.
#Svelte#WebDev#Podcasting
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JavaScript.exe - Standalone Executables
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.
#javascript#node#executables
Supper Club
Supper Club × Bramus Van Damme on CSS
Bramus Van Damme from the Chrome team discusses the latest in CSS including scroll-linked animations, scope styling, view transitions, nesting and more.
#css#front end
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Potluck × JR Devs & Copilot × CSS Variable Limitations × SvelteKit
In this episode, Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like using SvelteKit with Astro, what can be put in CSS custom properties, driving code quality on a team, and working with deprecated dependencies in React Native. They also share picks.
#React#Astro#Svelte#CSS
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Why Is node_modules So Big?
Discussion on why Node.js node_modules folders get so large and what actually takes up most of the space inside them.
#nodejs#webdev#javascript
Supper Club
Supper Club × Adam Argyle on What's New in CSS
Adam Argyle discusses all the latest updates in CSS including new units, gradients, animations, custom properties, and more.
#css#webdev#frontend
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Where Should You Host Your App? Hosting Providers Compared
Compares popular hosting providers like Vercel, DigitalOcean, and AWS services. Looks at features, pricing models, and opinions.
#hosting#javascript#webdev
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WTF Are Signals And Why Is Everyone So Hot On Them All Of The Sudden?
Discussion on what signals are, why frameworks are adopting them, and whether you need to use them in your apps.
#javascript#webdev#reactivity
Supper Club
Supper Club × Dylan Jhaveri - Video for the Web and MUX
Dylan Javeri from Mux discusses their developer platform for powering professional video on the web. Topics include video players, streaming, codecs, analytics, AI, web components, and the future of video.
#Video#Streaming
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UI Elements - Basics, Best Practice, and Built Ins
Wes and Scott discuss browser native UI elements, issues with their lack of flexibility, and research into better customizable options via the Open UI community group.
#UI#Accessibility#Standards
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Bluesky + AT Protocol
Scott and Wes discuss the new Blue Sky social network and AT protocol, comparing it to Twitter, Mastodon and other decentralized social networks.
#bluesky#socialmedia#twitter