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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Scott and Wes tackle listener questions on everything from local-first databases and AI-built CRMs to protecting APIs and raising kids with healthy digital habits. They also weigh in on Cloudflare’s AI crawler ban, portfolio critiques, and more hot takes from the dev world. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:49 Dreaming about web components. 02:55 Local-First Apps for Customer Support. Brought to you by Sentry.io 08:17 AI-Built CRM: Portfolio or Problem? Ben Vinegar’s Engineering Interview Strategy. 18:55 InstantDB vs. Other Local-First Databases. 21:46 Raising Kids with Healthy Digital Habits. Porta Potty Prince on TikTok. 32:55 Cloudflare Blocks AI Crawlers. Good for Creators? Cloudflare Pay Per Crawl. Cloudflare No AI Crawl Without Compensation. Chris Coyier’s Blog Response. 41:46 Protecting APIs and Obfuscating Source Code. 44:49 Will Portfolio Critiques Return? 46:45 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Scott: Wifi 7 Eero. Wes: Plastic Welder Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on YouTube Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. We've got a Pollock episode for you today where you bring the questions. We bring the answers. Some really good questions around Cloudflare's new setting to block AI LLMs. So should, if you put content on the internet, should you be blocking LLMs from accessing that? A bunch of local first questions about local databases and syncing data. Kids, digital hygiene,
0:22.0	should kids be on YouTube? Should they have iPads? AI projects in a portfolio. This guy
0:27.0	vibe coded a little too close to the sun and now has a product that he's selling. Should that go
0:33.4	in your portfolio if you didn't really code it and obfuscating data via an API.
0:39.6	Is that something you need to do?
0:40.8	So let's get on into it.
0:48.9	How's it going today, Scott?
0:50.9	Hey, I'm doing super good.
0:53.8	We were talking about Web Awesome before this recording, and I was telling you that
0:59.4	I, Web Awesome got into my brain in a very funny way this morning where I had to check
1:04.6	on Web Awesome.
1:05.9	I kid you not, for no reason in particular, I had a dream last night.
1:12.2	That was like, web components?
1:13.9	That was like, Web Awesome is officially like complete.
1:17.3	And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to just dump Web Awesome and everything now.
1:20.6	Web Awesome, for those you don't know, it's like a collection of web components formerly, like based off of like shoelace was a collection of web uh components like
1:28.6	ui components yeah sliding tabs modals and it's great stuff i was a Kickstarter background it but
1:37.9	yeah i woke up this morning being like oh i can't wait to uh check out that web awesome full release
1:44.1	and then i was like wait a second when was i looking at that i wasn't looking at like, oh, I can't wait to check out that web awesome full release.
1:45.4	And then I was like, wait a second.
1:47.4	When was I looking at that?
1:48.6	I wasn't looking at that.
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