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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about naming things in programming, use case for generators, CSS @Layers follow up, database prefixes, generalist vs specialist, where’s the sick pick page, and more! Show Notes 00:08 Welcome 01:20 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:48 How much of programming is genuine advanced technical stuff vs just fancy complex sounding names for things? 05:10 I found a non-trivial use case for GENERATORS! 11:05 CSS @Layers follow up from 668 Hacking the Tonal - Proxying, Intercepting + Debugging Traffic? - Syntax #668 Allow authors to apply new css features (like cascade layers) while linking stylesheets · Issue #7540 · whatwg/html 15:37 On a previous episode, what did you mention regarding database-prefix? 18:20 Is it better to be a generalist or specialist as a front end dev? 23:20 I can’t find the sick picks page on the new site. Any plans to bring that back? Filtering and Discovery Notes · Issue #935 · syntaxfm/website 24:25 Can you guys give some advice about how to grow and improve as developers while struggling with ADHD? Supper Club × Coding with ADHD with Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Syntax #532 29:55 Any chance you could make an embeddable player? 31:32 Could you have the people behind Cards Against Humanity on a future supper club episode? Cards Against Humanity Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Cards Against Humanity 99% Sale Warehouse | Blackbox Yowza 34:50 What are some of the differences between being a professional developer in Canada versus the United States? 40:58 Is HTML Over The Wire awesome, or super awesome? 42:52 How can I develop locally with a postgres database and Prisma / Vercel for hosting? Env Variables and Modes | Vite 46:23 Sick Picks Sick Picks Scott: Mother In Law’s Gochujang Fermented Chile Sauce, MIL Kimchi Gochujang and Gochugaru Wes: SEOUL SISTERS Korean Kimchi Powder 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

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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.
0:10.8	Welcome to Syntax. We got a potluck for you today. Lots of interesting questions around
0:17.4	JavaScript, React, CSS, somebody has a decent idea of how to use generators. We've talked a lot about that.
0:27.0	Some addendums to the layers episode and all kinds of great stuff. Looking forward to talking about it. My name is
0:32.9	West Boss. I'm a developer from Canada with me as always Mr Scott Tolinsky. How you
0:37.2	doing today Scott? Doing good my man just hanging out. Not too much to report, just feeling the holiday vibe. We took a train in the mountains
0:48.4	to see Santa with the kids and it was an old silver mining train and you take this train through this really just
0:57.0	picturesque scene and Santa's on the board on board and everything like that and it was just
1:02.3	it really got you into the holiday vibe.
1:06.8	The kids were going nuts for it. They had a great time so yeah just feeling it.
1:11.5	Yeah. Well this this episode goes live December 27th, so Merry Christmas to everybody.
1:17.1	Hopefully you enjoyed your time and a happy holidays and happy holidays.
1:21.6	Syntax is presented by Century.
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1:48.9	code tasty treat, I'll lowercase all one word, and you'll get two months for free.
1:53.0	Let's get into the first question here from Gordon Lou.
1:57.0	How much of programming?
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