Code Styles: Readable Rules and Petty Preferences

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.1	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Tillinski and West Boss.
0:10.8	Welcome to syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:14.7	Today we've got a good one for you.
0:17.5	We kind of put two shows together.
0:19.1	We had this idea of a first a petty preferences show, which is just things, tabs and spaces and what not.
0:26.2	And we'll talk about all of that.
0:28.0	But then there's also like a lot of stuff, which is like, I actually prefer function definitions over an arrow function in a variable.
0:35.7	And there's some real reasoning behind that.
0:37.8	So Scott and I are going to go through a list of probably 20 different things.
0:41.4	And we're going to say what we prefer, and as well as like why we prefer that, which is generally,
0:49.4	you try to side with more readable code over being a hot shot.
0:53.8	So we are sponsored by three awesome companies today, Linode, Cloud Computing, Developers, Trust, Log, Rocket, Javascript, Session, Replay, and FreshBooks, Cloud Accounting.
1:03.7	We'll talk about all that part with you through the episode.
1:06.4	How you doing today, Scott?
1:07.7	I'm doing good.
1:08.8	Just hanging out, launching our site this week.
1:14.4	So I'm just in berserker mode here, just, you know, we have a friend of mine doing Q&A for us.
1:22.8	Is it Q&A or QA?
1:25.3	Q&A. Quality.
1:26.6	Oh, you know, no, QA.
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