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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

552: Potluck × Twitter Thoughts × Business Models × Senior Developer

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about how to give feedback on the podcast, deciding on a business model for courses, what to do about Twitter, and more. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 01:51 Podcast feedback 04:46 Can you talk about how you made the decision to re-write LevelUp? Strangler Fig 13:54 How did you get a score for your website? Google Pagespeed 19:30 Where will we move to when Twitter implodes? Twitter Blue 26:29 Sponsor: Linode 27:06 How did you arrive at your business model? 33:15 Advice for getting into freelancing web dev? 38:49 Sponsor: Sentry 40:07 How to feel more “senior” as a developer 43:30 How do you manage notifications between various apps? Hazel 50:46 Label makers Nimbot label makers 54:14 Sponsor: Freshbooks 54:45 How are people testing node apps? JestJS Vitest Mocha ChaiJS 56:38 What are your thoughts on the TanStack Router? Tanstack Astro SvelteKit Nozzle 01:09 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Sensibo Air Wes: We Crashed Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out

0:05.5

there. Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Tillinsky and West Boss.

0:10.8

Welcome to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. We've

0:15.9

got a pot luck for you today. This is where you submit the questions and we will answer

0:19.9

them. Please keep the questions coming on in. You can go to syntax out of fam in the top

0:24.5

right hand corner. There's a button says ask a pot luck question. Type it in there and

0:28.8

we'll try to answer it on the show. We've got some really good questions for you today.

0:34.4

JavaScript CSS tooling, caching routing, all kinds of good stuff with me as always. Mr.

0:40.7

Scott Tillinsky, how you doing today Scott? Hey, yo, hey, yo, hey, yo, I'm doing good.

0:46.9

I don't know, not too much to report. If you learn just like feeling a little bit of relief

0:54.5

to have our whole black Friday stuff over with, that's always kind of a stressful time

0:59.6

of the year for us. You know, the fact that I launched a new redesign for the site and

1:06.8

I am still alive here. I have survived launching a redesign of the site. It's not something

1:12.3

I do very often. So yeah, for me, feeling very good to be on the other side of that. Now

1:17.8

I can just focus on all the things in life that need focusing on now that I have that

1:23.9

big thing out of my face. What about you feeling? Feeling good, feeling good, just working

1:30.5

away, recording my TypeScript course. So not too much. It's just pretty much that we are

1:37.6

sponsored by three awesome companies today. Linode, cloud computing, developers, trust,

1:42.6

century, air, exception, performance tracking and fresh books, cloud accounting. We'll

1:46.4

talk about all of them part way through the episode. Let's get on into the first question

1:51.9

we have here from Nick. Hi, why is there no contact us section on your site? How can

1:57.9

I provide feedback about your podcast? Like there is no search on the site or you don't

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