Holiday Gift Guide

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode Wes and Scott bring you their holiday gift guide - things, ideas or experiences that would make great gifts for any developer, ranging from a few bucks to a few hundred bucks. Contentful - Sponsor Contentful is a great way to manage your data. Update once and publish everywhere. Contentful gives you a ton of flexibility and reliability and everything you need to build excellent front-end content without having to worry about the back-end of your site. Check out contentful.com/syntaxfm and get a free pair of socks! Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Show Notes 3:57 - Foodie Gifts Hot Sauce Merfs Every Cholula Hot Sauce Jalapeno from Trader Joes Blue Top Creamy Buffalo Everything but the bagel Spice Loose leaf Teas from Teahaus.com Wes’ Tea Steeper Scott’s Tea Mug & Steeper Flavored Salts (No link, just go find them) Savory Spice Shop Rainbeers - make it yourself Beer Making Kit Umai Dry Steak Aging and Charcuterie Bags 11:27 - Experiences Knife Skills Class Butchering Class Cooking Class Float tank Subscription Massages 18:15 - Subscriptions Headspace Spotify HBO Go YouTube TV MeUndies Underwear Subscription Memrise LastPass Magazines Mantry Crates Kids Crates 23:07 - Books / Audible BadBlood Beat the bank - for Canadians Only American Kingpin Rich Dad / Poor Dad Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground Anything You Want Essentialism The E-Myth Revisited 29:47 - Clothes Uniqlo Jeans - w/ elastic Carhart Beanie (TOQUE) Naked and Famous Raw Selvedge Denim Jeans Skinny Guy Weird Guy Nudie Raw Selvedge Denim “thin Finn” “Unbranded” Raw Denim Custom Leather Belt TNF Fanorak Windbreaker Hoodies Adidas Black-on-black NMD crewneck Champion Hoodie Sneakers Nike Airmax 270 Jordans DonTrip RayBans with mirrors Original Wayfarer Sunglasses Under Armour Boxer Jock Underwear Reebok Boxer Brief Underwear dvlpr.io Merch 39:08 - Gadgets Mechanical Keyboards CTRL Keyboard WASD Keyboard Code Keyboard Ergodox 10W qi Wireless Fast Charger Charging Pad USB C Gadgets 8-in-1 USB Type-C Hub with HDMI USB C Hub LaCie Rugged USB-C Hard Drive Koomus Car CD Slot Magnet Mount for your phone Anker Portable Battery Extra Long Braided Phone Cables Lighting Micro USB USB-c Anker USB Power Block 4 ports with Fast Charge 6 ports with Fast Charge Wifi Hotspot SkyRoam Solis Magnet Breakway USB-C Cable that handles 87w Tello Programable drone High end mini screwdrivers MaxCraft 7-in-1 iFixIt 64 bit set 48:00 - Smart Home Google Home Ring Doorbel Nest Doorbell Ring Floodlight Security Camera EcoBee WeMo Plugs TP Link Smart Plug Leviton Smart Wifi Dimmers LIFX Bulbs Sonoff $5 wifi Switch 54:40 - Grooming and Wellness Seki clippers CBD balm A nice comb Burts Bees Lip Balm in a tin 58:57 - High End Apple AirPods Bose QC 35 Wireless Headphones Samsung QLED TV - very high end Shameless Plugs Scott’s Level 1 Typescript Course Wes’ updated course platform 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	The Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Merry Christmas. Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:26.8	My name is Wes Boss.
0:27.7	I'm a full stack developer and with me as always is Scott Tlensky.
0:31.2	How you doing today, Scott? Hey, I'm doing super good. Really happy to be here. This is just a great time of year. Things are starting to feel a little bit more seasonal and things like that. So I'm psy psyched and today we have a really awesome holiday
0:45.8	gift guide for you all so this is going to be a really fun and exciting episode
0:50.2	for me because it's going to be like sick picks on steroids and I know a lot of people
0:53.8	love our sick picks so you're about to get a whole lot of them.
0:56.7	So these are going to be things that are ideas, experiences, products, things that are
1:02.1	good to get a developer or maybe just anyone who's techie in your life.
1:07.1	It's not going to be all gadgets, but things we've noticed from just sick picking for a year and a half is that even if it's totally unrelated to
1:14.8	to web development there's certain types of like little gadgets or little gifts or little
1:19.2	experiences that us as developers tend to like.
1:22.6	So we're really excited about that.
1:24.2	This is going to be a gift guide.
1:25.8	We're gonna kind of explain our thoughts
1:27.6	behind all of the different purchases
1:29.8	and things here that you could get for people
1:31.8	or you could send this list to a significant other who's trying to shop for you.
1:35.2	And then as well as the list of this is also going to be in the show note.
1:39.1	So if you need like an actual paper copy of this to print out or to find the links to the actual products.
1:44.8	They have them in there.
1:46.0	Important to note that none of the companies in these recommendations are paying us.
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