1003: Skills Skills Skills

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes chat all things agent skills for web developers, sharing their favorites for everything from CSS animations and HTML generation to logo extraction, marketing copy, and video creation. Whether you’re just getting started with AI-powered development or looking to level up your workflow, this episode is packed with practical skills you can put to use today. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:33 Hot Tip Skill 05:55 CSS Motion Systems 08:17 Agent Browser Skill 09:30 HTML Skill 12:01 Extract Logos Skill 13:34 Dex Task Skill 14:50 Remotion and Hyper Frames Skills Syntax Episode 550 with Remotion 16:22 Discussion on AI and Design Skills 18:50 Marketing Skills and Copywriting 23:01 Final Thoughts and Resources 24:10 Brought to you by Sentry.io Sentry Skills Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax today. We're going to be talking about skill, skill, skills. Can they pay your
0:05.7	telephone bills? We're going to be talking about skills. All of these things in our repos that are
0:11.2	just marked down files that the AI can use to go off and do stuff correctly. So Wes and I have
0:17.4	each brought four skills to the table. These are skills that we really like to use in our
0:22.6	setups. And we're going to be talking a little bit about what they are and why. We'll be linking to them so
0:27.4	you can go ahead and install them if that's what you are down with. My name is Scott Tolenski. I'm a
0:32.7	developer from Denver. And with me as always is Wes Boss. What's up, Wes? They got some skills. I'm excited to talk
0:38.8	about this because it's crazy to see that the landscape has moved so quickly into this like
0:46.2	markdown documents that describe capabilities for an agent. And then I got a cool name called
0:52.3	skills and everyone is like sharing them around, you know?
0:56.0	Like I think there's a little bit of grifting going on where people just have these like magic documents of text.
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.2	If you're paying for a skill, you're out of your mind.
1:04.5	Yeah.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:05.3	Have you ever paid for a skill?
1:08.2	I bet I could sell a skill.
1:10.4	I bet you could sell a lot of things.
1:13.1	Yes. A skill. Yes. So what? We're going to go through what three or four each of our favorite
1:19.2	skills, ones that we've written ourselves and ones that are existing that you can use as well.
1:24.9	Let's do it. Oh, I'm ready, Wes. I brought my S stack and everything.
1:29.1	So you tell me, you want to get your first skill out here?
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