Welcome to Syntax. Today, we've got a potluck episode for YouTube. That's where you bring the questions. We bring the answers. And if you got a question for us, please submit it. Go to syntax.fm, click on potluck in the menu bar and submit your question. We'll answer it on a future episode. Today, we've got some really interesting questions around should I keep using WordPress or should I be going headless and doing it all in JavaScript or something fancy?

Is the gravy train over for software devs? A lot of people are having a hard time finding a job right now and

things are just switching up. Where to store your TypeScript types? Do you put them in a separate file?

Do you put them in the file where you have them? It's a big mess and we're going to figure it out for you. Finally, there's a bunch more questions, but one other interesting one is like, what is the benefit to buying an SSL certificate when you can just get a free one with Let's Encrypt? Scott, we just got back from San Francisco. we did our GitHub meetup. Props to everybody who came

out for that. That was a hoot, wasn't it? And a big time hoot. It was a, it was a hoot nanny.

A couple hundred people there. There was a couple funny things. Let's talk about all the

funny things that happened. Talk about the funny things. Yes. First of all, there was another

meetup, like on the other side. We like like, did this, like, brewery outside, and there was, like, a brewer in the middle, like, a little, like, they pour beer there. And we were on one side. And then there was another meetup on the other side, which it was, like, a meetup for like investors or something like that. And some of those people came to our side just unknowingly. And they were just like talking to me for like a couple of minutes. And I was like, this person doesn't know what we are. Like, why are they here? And then they're just like, so are you part of Y Combinator? And what are you investing? I was like, oh, I think you're at the wrong meetup. But then they like continued to talk to me about investing. Like, maybe there's an opportunity here. Maybe they're, hey, yeah, no kidding, right? Oh, what else? There was, this is not funny, but some kid who's 14 years old came, took a bus in. Yes. Amazing. That was really cool. So shout out to, I forget his name, but shout out to the 14 year old that came out. That was really cool. If you're out there on YouTube, leave a comment. That was really great of you to come. Thank you so much for showing up. We also had folks from Zed editor show up. We had Robbie O'Russell was there.

There was like big name people, a lot of Jason Langstorff, a lot of really great people showed up,

Ashley Willis. It was just like, just really great people. And a lot of great conversation,

a lot of big syntax fans.

We had the park security there was loving our merch, one guy, one guy on a bike,

and park security bike got wanted our internet.

He was a police officer.

Scott scared to back the blue here, but yeah, it was.

No, I thought he was a, he's's a he's a full on police officer okay

so yeah he uh no he wore our internet hat there was other people who were just like coming by

and being like hey I see these hats over here uh so we gave out so much gear it was crazy even the VC

people were coming over and being like oh this gear is actually rips so we had had glow in the dark syntax stickers. Those were sick. You have to send me a few because I brought, I brought one home and I didn't think to grab more. And my kids were losing it. And I was like, oh, shoot, I guess I should have got more. I, uh, I didn't bring any home. So sadly, all of the ones that I had are gone.

So I think they went really fast.

So I don't know if they're still there.

The Century folks might have them.

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