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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s a Potluck episode - you bring the questions and we turn them into tasty treats.
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Show Notes
2:42
- What is an efficient way to process huge data, greater than 740 MB when not working in JS?
6:45
- What’s new and shiny thing in web development do you think is going to go the distance?
- GraphQL
- Prisma
- GraphCool
- GraphQL Playground
11:09
- Wes, can you make a course on how to barbecue meat properly?
12:31
- How do you go about learning a new language or framework?
- Ep 44 - How to Learn New Things Quickly
12:54
- What are the best things to keep in mind when you are the only developer on a team?
18:07
- Is Redux for React dead with the new context API?
- Redux
21:41
- What’s the funnest project you have ever worked on and why?
- LevelUpTuts
27:19
- What’s the best use case for JWP?
- JWP
29:50
- Should I focus on one thing and try to master one technology instead of being a jack of all trades?
35:00
- Why do thousands of entrepreneurs build SaaS products on Ruby on Rails?
- Laravel
- Laravel Spark
- CodeIgniter
- Meteor
- Hackathon Starter
39:41
41:06
- What do you use for online learning platforms?
- Ep 14 - Our Stacks Explained
- Teachable
- Moodle
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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. |
| 0:06.1 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.1 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Syntax, the web development podcast with the tastiest treats around. |
| 0:17.0 | And with me as always is West Boss. Say hello. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. Hey, in this episode we're going to be doing another potluck episode which is where we take user questions and give you sort of rapid fire answers. |
| 0:29.0 | Whoever's got the answer, we're going to answer all your questions. We'll also be posting the link to submit |
| 0:34.5 | questions on our Twitter so if you want to be submitting questions for the next |
| 0:37.7 | public episode which are going to be doing sort of monthly or something around |
| 0:41.1 | there we'll want you to go ahead and submit your questions |
| 0:44.1 | for the next Pollock if you want your questions right on syntax. |
| 0:48.1 | This episode is sponsored by Fluencomf, |
| 0:51.0 | which is the awesome web development conference in San Jose from O'Reilly Media and Freshbooks which is amazing cloud accounting software. |
| 0:58.5 | So what's up Wes how you doing? |
| 1:01.0 | I'm doing fantastic we We finally, finally have some nice weather. We had |
| 1:05.8 | snow like a week and a half ago and now it yesterday it was 28 Celsius which is let me |
| 1:12.2 | just convert that to American. do that is 82.4 |
| 1:16.4 | American degrees and I just absolutely loving this this warm weather is much needed |
| 1:22.1 | after a long cold |
| 1:24.2 | bummer of a winter and now I'm just like, |
| 1:26.6 | just want to be outside all day. |
| 1:28.0 | Cool. |
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