Potluck - Changing careers × Repo organization × CSS Grid × Certifications × Freelancing × Spammers × More

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott answer your questions! This month - organizing your Git repos, the difference between freelancing and contracting, changing careers, how to deal with spammers and more! Sanity.io - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get up and running by typing npm i -g @sanity/cli && sanity init in your command line. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Techmeme Ride Home Podcast From Techmeme.com, Silicon Valley’s most-read news source, The Techmeme Ride Home podcast is a short daily podcast about the day’s tech news. Mark Zuckerberg called Techmeme the one news source he definitely follows. New episodes are published every day at 5p.m. You can check out the show here, or search for “Techmeme Ride Home” in your favorite podcast player. Show Notes 1:55 Q: Do you prefer to have your backend and frontend in separate Git repos or together? What are the trade-offs? 5:12 Q: In web dev, what’s the difference between a freelancer and independent contractor? 9:45 Q: Default export vs named export? 11:35 Q: I’m looking to change careers, but I’m 41 this year. Is it too late? 16:12 Q: Have you guys made much use of multicolumn layout? If so, only for text, or have you come up with (or seen elsewhere) any interesting out-of-the-box uses? 20:11 Q: Since you publish your courses’ source code on Github, what do you think about people using that to learn instead of buying your course? Is it an intentional decision, or is it a compromise you’re willing to make? 23:52 Q: When is a certification needed for both jobs and side-projects? 29:35 How do you deal with spammers filling out forms? 34:05 Q: Could you better explain what a slug is? I’ve heard the term thrown around on a number of your episodes, but I don’t really know what it means. 37:44 Q: I am currently going through some currency conversion stuff for a project, what would you recommend to use for international conversions? Links Sanity Techmeme Ride Home Podcast Concurrently Rachel Andrew CSS Grid auto height of elements? Cloudflare Intl.NumberFormat ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Voxon Screwdriver Set Wes: Technology Connections Shameless Plugs Scott’s Level Up Pro Wes’ Courses 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	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 Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax. My name is Wes Boss. I'm a full stack JavaScript developer with me as always is Scott
0:17.7	Tolinsky.
0:18.7	Hey you doing today Scott.
0:20.7	I'm doing good. I'm back for my first vacation and who knows how long.
0:24.7	I don't know when the last time I've had a legit vacation.
0:28.5	And so I went up to Winter Park.
0:30.1	I got them from three days of shredding in. We had some fresh pow pow on every single day.
0:37.0	So I am feeling nice and I'm feeling nice and sore but I'm feeling majorly mentally refreshed and ready to go.
0:44.0	Man the pictures you posted so fresh sash or whatever Scott said is snowboarding.
0:49.0	The pictures you post are unreal.
0:53.4	Like I've only been to nobody once and I like blacked out
0:56.2	because I've bailed so hard and I've got to be staying away from it
0:59.8	since then.
1:00.3	But the pictures with the mountains in the background looked amazing.
1:03.6	Yeah and that's not far that's like an hour and a half from our house just pop on over
1:07.6	there for a little bit and hit up some mountains. It was an awesome weekend, perfect weekend to go.
1:13.0	That's wicked out.
1:14.0	So today we are doing a potluck.
1:16.0	We're going to be talking about all kinds of different questions that you've sent in,
1:19.0	things from, do you separate your back in and front end to separate GitHub repos default export export versus named export changing careers?
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