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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

693: Lessons Learned & Bugs Fixed from Launching Syntax.fm

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the lessons they learned while launching the new Syntax website including launching now, transcription bugs, error monitoring, black text on black backgrounds, and more. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome to Syntax 01:41 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:43 Don’t wait. Launch! 04:28 Transcript bug Most Powerful Speech-to-Text API | Deepgram 09:01 Error monitoring is a must 12:36 Timestamp error 16:20 Black text on black background might hide things 17:33 WASM Vercel file system 21:18 Things have gotten easier to launch PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale 23:36 Switching from OpenAI to Anthropic Claude and AI Responses aren’t always JSON 25:34 Local dev is fast Navigation API 31:37 Mind your payloads 32:41 GitHub Milestones 33:57 Almost forgot the Robots.txt 36:17 Chron job timeout Inngest 40:06 TypeScript errors don’t need to be zero to launch 42:25 GitHub Actions pipeline bug 43:23 Basic testing will do Playwright 44:56 Have a designer to work with Airbase 52:07 Sick Picks Sick Picks Scott: Dog Poop Bags With Dispenser Wes: Resistance band Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Courses Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

Transcript

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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.

0:10.9

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

0:16.0

where we have launched our new website syntax dot of them go check it out

0:20.1

we've talked about the tech about it a couple times, so we're not going to go through all of the

0:26.8

tech that we use, but we thought we'd do an episode on the bugs that we hit and how we fix them as well as the lessons learned from

0:35.6

launching so like when we were ready to launch this thing you always hit those

0:39.7

like last minute oh crap this doesn't work the same as it does on my computer

0:45.5

versus in production.

0:46.6

There's limitations of where you're hosting it,

0:49.6

limitations of a database,

0:52.3

as well as just like processes that need to be put in place so that we can

0:56.7

launch this sucker.

0:57.8

So we're going to go through all of those things today.

1:01.4

With me as always is Mr Scott. Congratulations on launching our new site, Scott.

1:05.5

Hey, thanks for congratulating me and congratulations to you for launching as well.

1:10.5

It was a what a great feeling it is to launch something like this and I

1:14.8

got to say I just launched sadly before our not the acquisition being

1:20.6

sadly but sadly before our journey into becoming part of century

1:24.5

I I had just launched a new level up tutorial's website that took me just about an entire

1:29.8

year to build so this is like my second launch in less than a year of this caliber and

1:35.7

gosh it feels good every single time. What a what a great feeling to get something like

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