Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development

treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

Tolinsky!

Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking all about

buy it or build it when you should use a service and when maybe you should

build it yourself. And this is mostly just going to be us pontificating on the

cost of services versus the cost of building things yourself. But I think it's a

conversation worth having for many people. My name is Scott Linsky. I'm a developer.

I'm from Denver. It's right. And with me, as always, is the West Boss.

Wes! What's up, my man? Hey!

Oh, you know, just rocking. I'm writing a little shell script this morning,

which is kind of cool. I wrote a little NPM pack. Here, I'll tell you the

problem I'm having, see if it goes well as well. Sometimes I want to test some

JavaScript, so I just paste it in the console and run it and just to kind of go

back and forth and play with it or I'm playing on the page. And now that I

write entirely TypeScript, I find that frustrating because I need to sometimes

just run it in the console or in an environment that doesn't have TypeScript

for whatever reason. So I'm writing a, I wrote a little like NPM script that

will take your clipboard contents, parse it into JavaScript with STVC and

then paste it back into your clipboard. And then I'm going to hook that up

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