Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action about what Rust is, how to get started learning Rust, and ideas of good projects to begin learning Rust with. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:26 Guest introduction Rust in Action Tim on Twitter Tim on YouTube 03:51 What was it like to write a bo..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize th..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through their wishlist for CSS in 2023 including mixins, range selectors, fit text, robust color functions, overflown, and more. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:09 Snow skate update 03:01 Mixins 05:06 Range selector 09:36 :first-of-column :last-of:column / row Ability to target items in nth-row of autofill..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Buffalo and Canada History of Target in Canada 06:23 Who is Caleb Porzio? @CalebPorzio on Twitter 09:26 What is Livewire? Livewire A..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott look through the results of the State of JS survey for 2022. Show Notes State of JS 2022 00:26 Welcome 01:24 Thoughts on the survey in general 04:24 Country of origin 05:53 Salaries 08:14 Higher education 08:58 JavaScript features 15:41 Browser APIs 21:15 Library Usage 26:11 Int..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain what container queries are, use cases for them, new units of measurement, and possible issues with container queries. Show Notes 00:28 Welcome 01:46 What are Container Queries? Tweet about Container Queries 03:28 Use cases for Container Queries Home Assistant Can I Use? 06:11 The syntax of contain..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity? 04..

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about HTML tags, budgeting, recession proofing your business, software dev vs software engineer, taking payments, and more. Show Notes 00:11:11 Welcome 01:29:11 When should you use article and section in HTML? 08:03:08 Does your business suffer from the economic recession? ..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 03:19 Buying vs building topic 07:09 Strategy 09:50 Escapability 14:56 Services You Could Use Sentry Postmark 16:34 Effi..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Katherine Mello about her journey into coding from liberal arts to bootcamp education, data visualization, and coding for a sustainable focused company. Show Notes 00:34 Welcome 01:10 Guest introduction Rolling With Kat 03:05 Bag milk? 04:34 What is Tangible Materials? Tangible M..