Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through their goals for 2023 including coding, tooling, courses and platforms, social media, and fitness. Show Notes 00:17 Welcome 02:38 What’s a cantina? 06:33 Scott’s coding goals Animated grid layouts Tauri 14:39 Wes’ code goals Uses Stripe Stripe Elements Shoelace 23:17 Tooling Vite Pl..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Satisfies and as const. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Xmas recap Peloton 04:09 Satisfies and as const 06:16 What is const? 10:30 Helping with currency 12:44 Bos monster server update 14:13 Satisfies export const currencies = { USD: 'US Dollars', CAD: 'Canadian Dollar', EUR: 'Euro', } as cons..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Sarah Drasner about her new book, Engineering Management for the Rest of Us, what it’s like moving from management to coding and back, the book writing process, and her Fortnite VS Code theme. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:59 Who is Sarah Drasner? @Sarah_Edo on Twitter @Sarah_Edo on ..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about their predictions in web development for 2023. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 01:25 SSR JS sites more the norm 03:32 React doing forms 05:39 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot 08:11 Deno gets hotter 12:51 JS Runtimes Mature HTMX 15:00 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust 19:20 New JS..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some TypeScript Fundamentals around type narrowing, type guards, and type predicates. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:40 Rocking predicates 02:54 What is a type in TypeScript? 04:11 Type Narrowing 08:18 Type Guard 16:19 Type Predicates Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bo..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kilian Valkhof about his work on Polypane, a browser for developers. How is Polypane built? Why does he have a focus on accessibility in Polypane? Show Notes 00:39 Welcome 01:48 Who is Kilian Valkhof? kilianvalkhof.com @kilianvalkhof on Twitter 04:50 What is Polypane? Polypane @..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott revisit their 2022 predictions and see which ones they got right, and which they got wrong. 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 fast..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri. 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 the..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kenneth Lyerly about his career path into coding, and how he manages to hold two jobs. Show Notes 00:38 Welcome Ken.dev Ken on Github 01:59 How do you have two jobs? 09:46 When did you start a second job? 16:02 Any tips for someone wanting to switch into coding? 24:03 Do you hav..