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From Kenya to London with Django - Velda Kiara

🔗 Links Velda at RevSys Velda’s Substack: The Storyteller's Byte Tales Velda on GitHub Optimal Performance Over Basic as a Perfectionist with Deadlines More about me Neapolitan 📦 Projects django-linkcheck adamghill/django-lsp django-debug-toolbar 📚 Books A History of the Bible by John Barton Python Mastery, a course from David Beazl..

8 hours ago

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986: Does Code Quality Matter Anymore?

In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer your questions about popover navigation patterns, the Vibrate API on iOS, whether code quality still matters in the AI era, Wes’s evolving Obsidian second-brain setup, where to start with modern full-stack JavaScript, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:02 Using display none with pop..

8 hours ago

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985: Stop putting secrets in .env

Scott and Wes are joined by Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim to talk about Varlock, a new approach to environment variables that adds schemas, validation, and security to the humble .env file. They dig into the risks of traditional env workflows, how schema-driven configs improve DX, and how tools like Varlock help manage secrets safely across framewor..

2 days, 8 hours ago

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657: Slop to Slap

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the ope..

2 days, 15 hours ago

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Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more

Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues. The conversation digs into why language CLIs are hard to distribute, the tradeoffs between shims vs PATH-based version switching, why tasks can be the “c..

5 days, 6 hours ago

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984: How to Make a DOM Library Render Anything w/ Paolo Ricciuti

Wes and Scott talk with Paolo Ricciuti about Svelte custom renderers and how Svelte actually talks to the DOM. They dig into compiler internals, CSS handling, native bridges, and the realities of maintaining ambitious open source tooling. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! March MadCSS 01:44 Paolo’s role at Mainmatter and his work on Svelte..

1 week ago

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171: Melody Fraud

What if the music charts you see aren’t real? What if the numbers that define success can be manufactured? We talked to Andrew, a man who has spent his career on both sides of this battle. He once profited from the loopholes in streaming platforms, but now, his job is to close them. This episode will change the way you understand music streaming pl..

1 week, 1 day ago

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983: Why I Chose Electron Over Native (And I’d Do It Again)

Wes and Scott talk about building v_framer, Scott’s custom multi-source video recording app, and why Electron beat Tauri and native APIs for the job. They dig into MKV vs WebM, crash-proof recording, licensing with Stripe and Keygen, auto-updates, and the real challenges of shipping a polished desktop app. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! Ma..

1 week, 2 days ago

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656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized V..

1 week, 2 days ago

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LiveComponent with Cameron Dutro

Cameron Dutro returns to the show to introduce LiveComponent, a new library that adds client-side state and targeted re-rendering to Rails ViewComponent using Hotwire + Stimulus with minimal JavaScript. Chris, Andrew, and Cameron dig into why he built it, how it serializes component state and models, how updates flow from events to fast server-rend..

1 week, 5 days ago

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Freelancing & Community - Andrew Miller

🔗 Links Personal website GitHub, Mastodon, and LinkedIn In Progress podcast Hamilton Rock Comprehension Debt Builder Methods 📦 Projects django-prodserver django-health-check Online Community Working Group 📚 Books How to Build a LLM From Scratch by Sebastian Raschka World of Astrom Rob Walling books Jonathan Stark books David Kada..

2 weeks ago

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982: Bots Are Ruining the Internet

Wes and Scott talk about the latest dev news: Node enabling Temporal by default, OpenAI acquiring OpenClaw, TypeScript 6, new TanStack and Deno releases, the explosion of AI agent platforms, and more. Courtney Tolinski's Podcast Phases: A Parenting Podcast https://phases.fm/ Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:11 Brought to you by Sent..

2 weeks ago

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