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Scott and Wes summarize the 2023 State of Frontend survey from over 5,000 responses, analyze current framework usage trends and discuss where front end development may be heading in the future.
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Discussion on setting up and using Cloudflare tunnels to securely expose local web servers and home media servers over the internet with custom domains and access controls.
Supper Club
Cassidy Williams and Harold Kirschner discuss new GitHub Copilot capabilities announced at GitHub Universe 2022, including multi-file editing, custom instructions, VS Code API access, and more.
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This episode covers different approaches to state management in JavaScript, including reducer-based, mutation-based and atom-based state. Buzzwords like reactive state, stores, immutability vs mutability, state updaters and more are also explained.
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Wes and Scott discuss strategies for finding, evaluating and integrating JavaScript packages and libraries into projects.
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Scott Jehl discusses his background in web development and responsive design at Filament Group agency, opinions on web components for UI patterns, styling complexities, design systems, and how they are used in site builds today.
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Holiday gift guide with favorite picks across multiple categories like games, clothing, desk items, and more.
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Wes Boss and Scott Tolinski have a casual conversation sharing their real-world experiences of owning and driving electric vehicles.
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The job market has cooled considerably compared to the red hot 2021-2022 period but opportunities still exist, especially in back-end and data. Standing out requires strategic follow-ups, customization and showcasing relevant experience.
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Scott and Wes answer audience questions about web development tools and techniques
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Scott and Wes discuss GitHub's AI announcements from GitHub Universe conference, including Copilot updates to match Cursor features, new AI marketplace, workspace improvements and text-to-code generator Spark.
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Andrea Giammarchi discusses PyScript, a project to run Python code in the browser using WebAssembly. He talks about creating the LinkedDOM library to have a DOM API in Node.js, how WebAssembly enables running languages besides JS in browsers, and potential improvements like a central garbage collector.
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Web developers share horror stories of production mishaps like deleting databases, breaking sites, and more.
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Scott and Wes read community submitted horror stories about web development mistakes.
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Discussion with Søren Bramer Schmidt, cocreator of Prisma, on new features like going local first, Typed SQL, common SQL mistakes, GraphQL status, serverless databases, and upcoming hosted Postgres.
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Scott and Wes discuss the productivity tools and techniques they use for password management, to-do lists, snippets, mind mapping, note taking, writing scripts, email, habit tracking, and more.
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CJ talks about Hono, a modern JavaScript framework for building web APIs, showing why you should use it over Express. He covers Hono's familiar Express-like API, wide platform support, built-in helpers, JSX support, routing, validation, RPC client, testing, and more.
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Marcy Sutton discusses core web accessibility concepts like semantic HTML, keyboard support, and testing methodologies. She also covers advanced ARIA tools, career advice, and emphasizes collaborating with users.
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Discussion on key things to consider when evaluating a JavaScript framework to use
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How to effectively utilize AI tools like Copilot and Claude to improve workflows for web developers
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Tanner Lindsley discusses TanStack Start, a new fullstack framework built on TanStack Router, and his vision for robust client-side apps that can incrementally adopt server rendering and capabilities. He shares unique perspectives on React Server Components, type safety, middleware, and more.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions on topics ranging from transitioning jobs and frameworks to game development platforms and handling user feedback.
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Wes and Scott discuss various techniques to prevent spam and fraud when developing web apps, including CAPTCHAs, third-party verification services, rate limiting, and manual review.
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Sarah Vessels from GitHub discusses code reviews, the process of collaborating on a codebase, and best practices around pull requests and merges.
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Scott and Wes share 13 web development tips they wish they knew earlier in their careers relating to skills, tools, learning approaches and career growth.
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Discussion on different login and user verification methods like magic links, OAuth, codes, trusted devices, etc.
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Topher Martini discusses his career development lessons from working at Apple for over 15 years across various products like iPhone and VisionPRO.
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Scott and Wes discuss their favorite Mac apps including utilities, screenshots, developers tools and more.
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Scott and Wes discuss a Hack Week project where they built a desktop app to automate the Syntax podcast publishing workflow using Svelte, Rust and other technologies.
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Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel PHP framework, discusses the history and development of Laravel, building a sustainable business around open source, PHP community and ecosystem, thoughts on WordPress and more.
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Wes and Scott discuss Cursor, a new AI-powered code editor and assistant. They are impressed by its capabilities compared to GitHub Copilot, including better completions, UI improvements, multi-file edits, and custom docs for context.
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Wes explains how he built a receipt printer with JS during Hack Week at Sentry, including connecting it, encoding printer commands, taking screenshots to print complex layouts when alerts come in from Sentry.
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Daniel Thompson discusses Tauri, a framework for building small, fast and secure desktop and mobile apps using Rust and webviews instead of Electron. Key topics include improvements in version 2 like mobile support, the plugin system, and custom web views, the release cycle and future roadmap, and designing in the age of AI.
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In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer questions from listeners on topics like handling hybrid video/audio podcast episodes, why frameworks like Redwood JS aren't more popular, recommendations for dealing with distractions when working from home, whether CSS modules are a good idea for React, if developers still use the time tag in HTML, how to analyze bundle sizes in Webpack, getting maps to work offline, and much more.
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In this episode Scott and Wes discuss side projects - where developers get ideas, setting goals, choosing technology stacks, keeping notes, and actually finishing.
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CJ discusses hosting the Denver TypeScript meetup, the return of meetups post-COVID, finding organizers and speakers, using Meetup.com, what makes a good meetup, his first meetup experiences, the importance of community, and tips for organizing, attending, finding and getting involved with meetups.
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Scott and Wes go through a big list of apps they use for productivity. This episode covers files, media, utilities, screenshots and more.
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Discussion on reasons why CSS code can be difficult to work with and maintain over time
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Ryan Dahl discusses Deno 2.0 and its new NPM package support, while still keeping Deno's simplicity and standarization goals.
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Podcast episode explaining the fundamentals of HTML including the importance of semantic markup, document structure, forms, rich media elements, and more.