938: Hot Takes + Bike Shedding
Sept. 17, 2025, 11 a.m. (2 hours ago)
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Wes and Scott dive into some hot takes and classic debates—tabs vs spaces, camel vs snake case, export styles, barrel files, variable naming, and more.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:26 CSS variables: descriptive vs. semantic
- 03:38 snake_case vs. camelCase
- 04:54 Default exports vs. named exports
- 06:23 Barrel files vs. direct imports
- 09:15 Function declaration vs. function expression
- 11:00 Inferred types vs. explicit types
- 13:40 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 14:40 Long and explicit variable names vs. short with comments
- 16:27 Self-documenting code vs. code comments
- 17:03 Rebase vs. merge commit
- 18:39 Naming event parameters: e vs. event
- 20:33 Tabs vs. spaces
- 22:18 Big line height vs. small line height
- 23:50 Hard line length vs. line wrap
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