Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build involving hardware and software. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome to Syntax 01:04 Introducing Nick Hehr Nick Hehr (@hipsterbrown) HipsterBrown (@hipsterbrow..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through an introduction to electronics that you can do in your own home with microcontrollers. Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 00:52 What we’re talking about Arduino - Home ESP32 – The best products with free shipping | only on AliExpress 02:15 Airtag Sidebar 04:05 Projects We’ve Worked On 06:34 How ..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about some of the GitHub features you may not have used very much including projects, milestones, labels, and actions. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:53 That’s sick 04:05 What we’ve used in the past Trello Jira | Issue & Project Tracking Software | Atlassian 06:13 Working with Github Projects Abou..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrey Mishchenko about working at OpenAI, getting started in machine learning, what RLHF is, the impact of plugins on ChatGPT, and what the future holds for developers in a world with ChatGPT tools. Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 00:59 ChatGPT introduction 02:17 Who is Andrey Mishch..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott use the fact that Svelte is being converted from TypeScript to JavaScript with JSDoc to talk about the benefits of working that way, why they are doing it, and what you can do with JSDoc that TypeScript alone doesn’t let you do. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:12 Roof update 02:15 TypeScript haters need..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the nothing in CSS: 0 vs 0px, no, none, hidden, initial and unset. Show Notes 00:22 Welcome 01:50 The @ property 03:33 Hiding Things 10:07 Ghost Spaces 17:47 Collapsing margins 18:33 0 units vs 0 23:42 Unset and initial 27:42 HTML Bonus Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram Lev..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Matt Rothenberg and Idan Gazit from GitHub about GitHub Next, Copilot, AI based projects at Github, and what the future is for developers with AI. Show Notes 00:38 Welcome 01:23 Who are Matt and Idan? Matt Rothenberg @mattrothenberg Matt Rothenberg on CodePen Matt Rothenberg o..

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the work in progress on the new Syntax website, how to tackle all the moving parts, what stack they picked, AI, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:56 Leaky roofs 02:18 How we divided the workload for the new Syntax site Issues of Syntax v2 V2 of the website 02:55 Dark mode vs light m..

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about JavaScript executables - what is it? What’s the benefit of them? And what kind of tooling exists to support them? Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:12 What are JavaScript executables? 04:39 Deploying tooling 06:01 Running on a USB stick 07:57 The size 12:19 Fastly The edge cloud platform behind the be..

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Bramus Van Damme all about CSS, what the CSS Working Group is, how he got good at blogging, setting custom property types in CSS, view transition API, and so much more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome Bramus Van Damme 02:29 Who is Bramus? Bramus Van Damme - Developer Relations Engineer - L..