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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Potluck - Editor Fonts × Portfolios × Meetup Tips × Switching to Windows × Freelancing Sources

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott answer your questions about freelancing, portfolios, code editors, meetup tips, switching to windows and more!

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Show Notes

2:37

  • Question: Maaz Syed Adeeb - Are editor fonts worth the investment (if yes, why)? Why are they such a big deal in the first place?
  • Operator Mono
  • Dank Mono
  • Fira Code

6:10

  • Question: Ste O’Neill - How can I come up with ideas for projects? What can I put in a portfolio when I work for an agency?

9:10

  • Question: JavaScript Joe - If I only have two hours per week to work on coding projects, do I spend it building a side project or do I spend it contributing to open source? What’s your experience contributing to open source?

10:45

  • Question: Diane - Why is Git so hard to grasp in team projects? What are the best resources to master it?
  • Try Github

13:35

  • Question: Grant Chambers - What are some tips for going to your first meetup?
  • React Meetups

20:23

27:39

  • Question: Would you recommend using Upwork for starting out freelancing or something similar?

31:18

  • Question: Mike C. - What do you guys think about sites like Codewars and Code Fights? Being new to web development, I find the problems hard to solve. Is it important to know how to solve all these problems? If so, how do I get better at developing the mindset to solve them?
  • JavaScript 30
  • Level Up Tutorials

38:47

  • Question: When I work on a website, I need to record user names, passwords, URLs, keys, logins, cPanel, WordPress, ftp, MySQL for each and every website, local and remote.
    Currently, I use a text file to save all that information. How are you storing all this info? How others do it? How the pros are managing this? Pros and cons?
  • SSH Key
  • LastPass
  • 1Password

42:15

44:57

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Transcript

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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.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Hello everybody and welcome to Syntax. Today we've got a tasty potluck

0:15.1

episode for you today which a potluck episode is one where we take in your

0:19.0

listener questions and we answer them it's kind of nice because we'll spend a

0:22.2

couple minutes on a whole bunch of different topics we'll answer them. It's kind of nice because we'll spend a couple minutes on a whole bunch of different topics. We'll bounce around with me as always.

0:26.8

Today is Scott Tolinsky. How are you doing today Scott? I'm doing super good. I got stung in the head three times if I was

0:34.2

yesterday while I was mowing the lawn. Oh my gosh. That's it. I feel good though

0:39.7

other than that that I was mowing the lawn right just typical standard mowing the lawn and then all of a sudden yeah I just felt like

0:46.8

Something whacked me in the back of the head I actually I'm sorry was weed whipping at the time and I thought like part of the plastic thing broke off and

0:54.0

flew up and hit me in the head like that's how hard it was it just hit really hard and

0:58.1

it's like out and then like two more really quickly like ow ow dang and then I

1:02.3

look around I'm like swarmed by bees.

1:04.3

And I found a huge nest in my fence

1:06.6

and I was like totally oblivious.

1:08.2

I was standing next to it.

1:09.3

And I looked, like, turn around there's like, you know, 30 plus bees.

1:12.3

Or they're not bees, they're're lost they're like the yellow jacket.

1:15.0

Even worse? Yeah and it sucked. It sucked but I'm doing good today. Today my head is feeling all right man. How about you?

1:22.0

I'm doing great little housekeeping because I've got I'm heading off tomorrow to Chicago.

1:30.0

Actually by the time this goes out I'll be back from Chicago. So thanks so much to everyone who came to Larracon Chicago. It was a blast. There we go. That's my forward future looking back. Nice. And then after that we're heading off on some vacation going down to Pennsylvania, which should be, we should be pretty fun.

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