Hasty Treat - Better Living Through Side Projects

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about side projects — what you can learn, why they’re great, how to come up with ideas, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 2:17 - Why? Keeps you sharp It’s actually useful Try new technology 5:28 - How to come up with ideas What sucks in your life? How do you get a competitive advantage in life? 12:10 - Quick and dirty tech Next.js Express diskDB Meteor 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

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday.
0:02.0	Open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,
0:07.0	CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,
0:10.0	breakdancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is
0:18.1	Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Oh, welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat.
0:30.0	We're going to be talking about better living through side projects,
0:34.2	aka how to make your life better by utilizing the skills that you have as a developer.
0:40.3	And there's a lot of bonuses here, which we'll get into later in this episode.
0:44.3	Now, if you want to be monitoring some of your projects,
0:47.3	aka if these projects turn into things that are not so little anymore,
0:51.9	you're going to want to go ahead and use Century at
0:54.3	century dot I oh now Century is really just an amazing place to monitor keep track of
1:00.9	all of the errors exceptions and bugs in your site.
1:04.0	It gives you amazing information allows you to mark things as resolved, ignore them,
1:09.0	and basically give you full visibility into what is going on in your site.
1:14.4	I recently got an email from Century letting me know sort of the status of the bugs or
1:20.3	the errors in my application over the past week.
1:23.3	And I thought that was really nice
1:25.1	to have a nice little aggregate view of that.
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