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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

722: Next Level Web APIs. Bluetooth, File Access, Thomas Steiner - Project Fugu

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Steiner talks with us about Project Fugu, an effort from Google to enable new classes of applications to run on the web. What is Project Fugu? What are some of Thomas’ favorite APIs to use? What is an IWA vs a PWA? And more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:52 Who is Thomas Steiner? 02:57 What is the overall goal of Project Fugu? 08:17 When might we see these APIs come to all browsers? 14:10 Do you have examples of companies pushing for an API? 18:53 What happens with the face detection API? 28:33 What is an IWA? 35:17 What is the web transport API for? 37:11 What is MIDI? 41:20 Nintendo Joycon hack 45:28 File handlers in a PWA 50:38 File System Observer API coming soon 56:26 Sick Picks Onnx HuggingFace Chrome for Developers Fugu API Tracker Google I/O 2023 LEGO Education SPIKE Igalia CapCut Descript Better Touch Tool Sick Picks Laser printers Shameless Plugs HowFuguIsMyBrowser 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

I sure hope you're hungry.

0:02.0

Who I'm starving?

0:04.0

Wash those hands, pull up a chair and secure that feed bag.

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and picked the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was going to be food.

0:18.8

So buckle up and grab that old shit handle because this ride is going to get wild.

0:25.0

This is the Syntax Supper Club.

0:30.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got a good one on good one for you. We have Thomas

0:38.8

Steiner on who is a developer relations to engineer at Google,

0:43.0

and he's on the Google Chrome team.

0:45.6

And he's here to talk to us today about Project Fugu,

0:48.3

which is this sort of effort to,

0:52.3

I'll let him explain it, essentially there's a lot of really cool

0:55.3

stuff in the browser from Bluetooth and I'll tell you the story of how this podcast

1:01.2

came about is I have this little label printer that I bought on

1:07.0

Amazon. It's called the Nimbot D 110 and it is really cool because you can use your phone to type and it'll print labels and I thought that's cool I had it for about a day and then I go of course can I hack it you know like like how does this thing work I always try to dip into that so I spent an

1:24.9

evening dipping into the web Bluetooth API and I was amazed that A the Web Bluetooth API is the best API for working with Bluetooth, full stop.

1:36.5

I was looking at like the Python API for working with Bluetooth.

1:39.6

That sucks. It's so simple with using JavaScript.

1:44.0

And B, I was amazed that I was able to connect to it and see all of its capabilities.

1:47.5

And I didn't get it to print a label just yet because there's some Bluetooth devices don't want you to, they want you to, their app and some of them want to be open, but Thomas had me a message.

1:57.5

She's like, love seeing this, like, because that's what you do.

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