892: The History of Syntax
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Wes and Scott talk about the origins of Syntax, sharing how a friendly course name conflict led to a mastermind group, then a podcast, and eventually a full-blown media brand. They also reflect on key milestones, from early episodes and sponsorships to joining Sentry, expanding the team, and what’s next.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:51 How Wes and Scott met
- 09:31 How Syntax got its name
- 15:30 Getting sponsors
- 18:53 Hasty Treats and expanding the show
- 22:36 Adding interviews to Syntax
- 23:38 Syntax’s first live show
- 27:58 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 28:34 Acquisition by Sentry
- 33:56 Hiring a producer
- 36:39 Transitioning to video and growing the team
- 41:47 Launching the merch store
- 46:01 The future of Syntax
- 47:23 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax today. We've got the history of syntax. We realize we've been doing this |
| 0:05.8 | podcast for a long, long time. And very early on in the podcast, we did kind of our origin |
| 0:12.8 | stories where we told people about ourselves, but we've never really either followed that up |
| 0:18.9 | or kind of explain the process of syntax. You know, I was, |
| 0:23.5 | I was on someone's live stream last week and they're like, like, how do that even start? |
| 0:28.0 | You know, it's been around for a while. So we thought, like, let's give you a little history |
| 0:32.6 | of syntax of where we started, how we met. And like, what did we do over the years to get to where syntax is today? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, yeah, because a lot of you may have found this channel recently, now that we've been publishing a lot more, |
| 0:45.9 | or maybe you found the podcast over the years, and, well, you might not know all of the whole bits and story. |
| 0:51.7 | So, Wes, do you want to kick it off with a little bit of, |
| 0:55.2 | you know, pre-s syntax, what you were doing? A little bit of lore on the West Boss story. |
| 1:01.8 | All right. So back around 2015, Scott and I were both making like web development |
| 1:07.6 | tutorials in general. And Scott was publishing quite a bit to YouTube at the time. |
| 1:13.2 | I was doing my own courses. |
| 1:15.5 | I did blogging on YouTube as well, but not as heavily as Scott was. |
| 1:19.5 | How we initially met was Scott had published a course called React for Beginners. |
| 1:24.2 | And I had a course called React for Beginners. |
| 1:27.0 | And I said, hey, could you not? |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | And thankfully, he was really cool about it and he's like, oh yeah, no problem. |
| 1:32.9 | And you renamed it. |
| 1:33.5 | I think React for everyone, which I was really happy about. |
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