865: CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior - STUMP'd
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes challenge each other’s knowledge on everything from array sorting quirks to browser isolation types in a rapid-fire trivia format. They dive deep into performance optimizations, TypeScript type safety, and HTML best practices while uncovering surprising edge cases that every web developer should know about.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:43 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 01:23 Question 1: Array Sort Default Behavior.
- 03:24 Question 2: Splitting Into Individual Words & Characters.
- 06:06 Question 3: NodeJS Stream Backpressure.
- 09:07 Question 4: Custom Middleware Rate Limiting.
- 13:00 Question 5: Transform Function Property Changes.
- 15:18 Question 6: TranslateZ & Will-Change Performance.
- 17:52 Question 7: Table Structure Best Practices.
- 20:23 Question 8: Dialog vs Div with Dialog Role.
- 23:21 Question 9: TypeScript Unknown vs Any & Never.
- 26:31 Question 10: Response Type Safety in TypeScript.
- 29:48 Question 11: Browser Isolation Types.
- 32:54 Question 12: HTML Quirks Mode Behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax on this Monday. |
| 0:03.6 | Hasty Treat. |
| 0:04.4 | I don't even know if we're calling these hasty treats anymore. |
| 0:07.2 | It's a Monday. |
| 0:08.2 | On this Monday episode of Syntax, we're going to be playing a game of Stumped, |
| 0:12.0 | which is where we ask each other web development questions. |
| 0:15.6 | We're going to do one from front end, JS, backend, JS, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, |
| 0:20.2 | browser quirks. We're going to do |
| 0:22.1 | some browser history stuff. We're going to just be asking each other of these questions, |
| 0:25.6 | and hopefully they're advanced enough that we can stump each other and make each other squirm a |
| 0:30.3 | little bit trying to get these answers. So my name is Scott Tolensky. I'm a developer from Denver |
| 0:34.4 | with me as always as Wes Boss. What's up, Wes? Hey, excited to get stumped. These are always fun to do. Yeah, and I'm stoked for this one. I think |
| 0:42.2 | it's going to be really exciting. And before we get going with the game, if you were stumped by your |
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| 1:22.9 | the show to you today. So I got a question for you, Wes. We're going to kick it off round one, round one |
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