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for Web Developers.

ISSUE #14:

We have a packed snack pack this week. Positive affirmations for site reliability engineers. An upcoming episode about jsr: the new TypeScript package registry?? A hot take on the original design of the CSS border. Also, get your questions answered by the guys in our brand new Syntax Snack Pack section - community Q&A (we still need a name).

But first, a(nother) Syntax Crew Update:
Senior Creator, CJ Reynolds

We’re stoked to welcome CJ Reynolds to the Syntax Crew! Joining us as the Senior Content Creator, CJ brings an impressive background, including the widely popular Coding Garden YouTube channel and Twitch community. Adding CJ to the team brings exciting expansions in our content in the form of new series, deep dives, and maybe even live streaming and new episode themes!

We're introducing a new section to the Syntax Snack Pack:

🆕 COMMUNITY Q&A 🆕

(what should we call it? Snack Chat? Tweet us ideas plz)

❓Hey Wes, how do you come up with your sticker ideas?
❓Hey Scott, breakdance for us?
❓Hey CJ, how'd you grow such a great Twitch community?

⚙️ How it Works:

🤔 Ask Away: Have a question? SUBMIT IT HERE. We encourage audio and video submissions, which we'll include in the video responses.
🎥 We Answer: Selected questions get a personalized video response, exclusively for the Snack Pack subscribers!

🍬 Local First

Local First software is how to build the fastest most native feeling apps.

🍬 EU Looking into Apple’s nuking of PWA from iOS 17.4

Apple is removing Progressive Web Apps from all EU ios installs “to meet compliance”. Malicious compliance? The EU is looking into that.

🍬 Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers

Krazam is back with a new hilarious video about outages.

🍬 White House Press Release: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe

Software development advice from the White House is a new one for me. The report mentions "the transition to memory safe programming languages has a demonstrably positive effect on cybersecurity" and they mention Rust as a memory safe option!

🍬 CSS Gradient Borders!

A new CSS property background-clip: border-area has been approved and will be added to CSS. This will allow up to have gradient borders!

TASTERS 👀

a sneak peek into upcoming episodes

#737 Fri, March 1:

jsr: the new TypeScript package registry. (npm killer)

#738 Mon, March 4:

Little Scripts: Coding for your Co-workers

#739 Wed, March 6:

The LoFi Software to work offline to

🔥 Hot take on the original design of CSS border

Lea Verou

@LeaVerou

🔥 Hot take: One of the early mistakes in the design of CSS was that adding a border requires tweaking two knobs to make it show up: border-width AND border-style.

It’s an endless source of mistakes, especially for beginners, which is a telltale sign of a design flaw. And of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1759115477006037464

11:19 PM • Feb 17, 2024

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🔥 Egress cost comparison for popular cloud providers

Shayan

@ImSh4yy

Here's an egress cost comparison table for popular cloud providers.

12:27 PM • Feb 27, 2024

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