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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review the projects they built during Sentry’s Hackweek: a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor, and a hardware recording button. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:57 What is a hack week? 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 03:42 Scott’s project: a multiplayer editor Liveblocks | Collaborative experiences in days, not months PartyKit | Everything is better with friends BlockNote - Javascript Block-Based text editor | BlockNote Dev toolkit for building collaborative editors – Tiptap microsoft/monaco-editor: A browser based code editor syntaxfm/hackweek-md-multiplayer-editor: Sentry.io Hackweek Submisison - A multiplayer editor for .md files that comits directly to GitHub Convex | The fullstack TypeScript development platform The Everything App 13:57 Multiplayer is so much easier 19:56 Wes’ project: A recording button Oracle VM VirtualBox Run Windows on Mac – Parallels Desktop 19 Virtual Machine for Mac Karabiner-Elements folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac! Home Assistant The World’s Leading 2D and 3D Platform | Unity Pro Free Trial SendCutSend | Online Laser Cutting and Waterjet Cutting blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software 42:31 Learning to skateboard 43:59 F1 documentary follow up 45:30 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Wes: LOVIMAG Magnetic Hooks Heavy Duty Shameless Plugs Scott: Syntax on TikTok Wes: @WesBos on X.com Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Welcome to Syntax. We're going to be talking all about our

0:16.3

Hack Week projects that we did for a century. That was a really awesome, fun week we had,

0:21.8

working on some fun, exciting projects for a Hack Week century does this annually.

0:26.5

This was our first Hack Week with Century. We decided to go all out and try to do some fun stuff.

0:32.4

We're going to be breaking down what we did for our projects, some of the approaches we took,

0:36.8

some of the lessons we learned, and some interesting tidbits about while working with hardware,

0:41.9

working with multiplayer, working with markdown editors, and those types of things.

0:45.8

My name is Scott Tolesky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always is West. What's up West?

0:51.5

Not too much. It was super fun to do a century Hack Week. I had never... I know a lot of

0:57.7

companies, maybe we should explain what that is. A lot of companies will set aside some amount of time

1:02.9

throughout their year. Often a lot of companies will give you a whole week and say,

1:06.9

all right, this week, they specifically said, don't merge anything unless it is absolutely necessary

1:13.5

because everybody's working on Hack Week stuff. Basically, you get the whole week to just work on

1:19.1

literally whatever you want. There's all kinds of different. One team made hot sauce and they

1:23.2

gasped out the entire Toronto office. A bunch of teams and a bunch of the century product features

1:30.0

have come out of Hack Week, which is cool. Often somebody will say, I got an issue with

1:35.2

how we do feature flagging or I've an issue with something in the application. I'm going to fix it

1:40.1

during Hack Week. Then other people, someone made a skate video with the syntax deck, which is

1:45.2

unbelievable. Some really cool stuff. Really cool stuff. Honestly, like you were saying,

1:52.1

it's an opportunity for people to work on things that are just creative projects that may turn

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