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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

2021 Predictions

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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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. Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Welcome to Syntax, this is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:15.0

Today we've got some 2021 predictions.

0:17.6

Scott and I have compiled lists of things we predict will be popular and things that will happen in web development

0:25.3

this year and then at the end of the year we'll sort of revisit this list and

0:29.2

see where we slam dunked it and where we airballed it.

0:33.0

Today we are sponsored by three awesome companies.

0:35.0

First one is Sanity, their structured content CMS.

0:39.0

Second one is Log Rocket, Session replay, and the third is Linode which does Linux virtual machines

0:44.6

we talk about them all part way through the episode. How you doing today Scott?

0:48.4

I'm doing good. It's funny we always record these in the morning and we're recording this episode in the afternoon. It feels very different.

0:55.5

It does. I feel awake.

0:57.6

Yeah, we usually record them at like 9 a.m. your time. So you're like, you're thrown right thrown right into it but I it's 11 o'clock my time

1:05.1

when I record so oh right I'm just getting hungry that's a me problem yeah yeah

1:09.5

definitely a me problem. All right so how did you want to do this show?

1:15.1

We were going to go back and forth with our predictions?

1:18.1

Yeah, the way I think that would be fun rather than just like being too organized with it is that well we both made lists of our

1:25.6

predictions and maybe we could just start at the top and I could do one and then you could do one and then

1:31.6

I could do one and then you could do one and if you have the exact

1:34.8

same prediction on your list you could say I have that too.

1:39.2

All right let's do it you want to grab the first one?

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