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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

2019 YEAR END Definitely Not a Clip Show

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a 2019 year in review — the most popular Syntax episodes, what they learned, some personal updates, plans for next year, and more!

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Show Notes

1:40 - Plans for 2020

  • Syntax Live March 2019
  • Plans for 2020
  • Twitter has done really well for @syntaxfm
  • Community feels great

9:20 - Top 10 Syntax episodes of 2019

25:17 - Personal stuff

  • Scott

    • Brooklyn Tolinksi
    • 2019 was really tough for me
    • Level Up courses for 12 months
    • Huge changes to my production values and office
    • Huge changes to LUT codebase (React hooks, Typescript, Next.js, Mongoose)

  • Wes

    • New Baby in June / 3 months Paternity Leave
    • Bought a cottage
    • Hardest course to make was Beginner JS — it was a slog, hard to stay motivated at times, with 80 hours of recording alone
    • Course Platform re-write (Next.js)

39:17 - Stuff we learned

  • Scott

    • Better speaker
    • Lots of TypeScript
    • Better debugging
    • Hooks
    • Svelte
    • General improvement in JS writing and programming skills

  • Wes

    • Really good at Vanilla.js DOM API
    • React Hooks
    • Suspense
    • Audio Visualization
    • Shape Detection API - Faces, Barcodes, Text
    • Headless CMS: Prismic, Sanity, WordPress GraphQL, Keystone.js, Hasura
    • Very good understanding of the nitty gritty of JS (closures, objects, this, new keyword, classes, etc.)

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax, this is the 2019 year end show. It's definitely not a clip show, so we're not going to do what everyone does. They call it in. You know, you watch a show on TV and they call it in and just show you clips from all the other episodes.

0:25.0

No, we are going to talk to you about what were the most popular syntax episodes,

0:29.0

what we've got planned for next year, some personal stuff, what went on with us this year what we got done what we learned

0:35.5

a whole bunch of interesting stuff like that so buckle up and get ready today's episode is sponsored by

0:41.5

Parismic which is a headless CMS and is My name is West Boss. Thanks for tuning in with me as always is Scott Tolinsky. How you doing today, Scott?

0:55.2

Hey, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. It's getting near that time, near the end of the year.

1:00.8

You know what? It's like a thing where people get ready to do all their

1:04.2

resolutions and get ready to be hyped up for the next year of their life. I've always tried to do the

1:09.5

resolution thing on like a more monthly basis, but this year's been nuts as you probably

1:13.8

no one has what we're going to talk about so yeah there's a lot to talk about this

1:17.6

year and you know I'm looking forward to this renewed sense of energy you get

1:21.1

every sort of January I'm looking forward to just moving on with

1:25.5

2020. We all know 2020 is going to be a better year than 2019 because that's just how the

1:32.1

positive mindset works.

1:33.8

Cool.

1:34.3

So there you go.

1:37.2

That's all I got really, yeah, nice little intro.

1:40.1

Let's start with next year.

1:41.5

So we plan to do a live episode of syntax in March at Reactathon.

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