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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott talk about freelancing best practices, tips for working remotely, what they would do if they had to pick a different career, and much more!
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Show Notes
4:48
- How long should you stay with each job and/or company?
8:20
- What is the best way to work remotely?
- Tips for remote working
- Have a dedicated space
- Clear on and off times
- Have a time for winding down
- Make specific TODO lists
- Use blocking software to help you stay focused
- Switch up the scenery / Work in different places
15:26
- What are the trade-offs with using WordPress in a headless setup vs a tradition setup?
21:28
- How do you deal with API credentials in React?
27:15
- How do you keep an eye on performance with an app/site over the long-term?
34:28
- What happened to Canvas after all the hype around HTML5 a few years ago?
40:15
- How do you deal with analysis paralysis?
- Just get to work - you can always change things later
- Do research, but don’t let it get in the way of shipping
44:05
- If you were forced to change your career (and it had to be something you’ve never done professionally in the past), what would it be?
- Wes: Some sort of buying and selling (eBay, Amazon, etc,)
- Example: Buying things at wholesale prices and selling them with a markup
- Scott: Could go a lot of different directions.
- Example: DJ, Snowboarding instructor, develop a video game that is a sequel to Cruis’n USA
50:14
- As a freelance developer, what are some good questions to ask before taking on a client?
- Budget
- Scope
- Preferred communication methods
- How do you make money?
- What are the ultimate goals?
- Basically, ask as many questions as possible
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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 Zilinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Syntax, my name is West Boss. I'm a full-stack developer from a |
| 0:15.4 | Hamilton Canada and this is a Scott Tolinsky I like to start this this podcast |
| 0:21.3 | off a little bit different every single time with me as always |
| 0:23.8 | is Scott Tolinsky who is a full stack developer from Denver. |
| 0:28.9 | Is that correct? That's correct. Yes. How's it going today, Scott? It's going good. Yeah, I just pushed a bunch of new features to level up like user view tracking and that sort of stuff stuff that people I am asking for for a little while. |
| 0:43.1 | So it feels great to push some of that code up into live production |
| 0:48.0 | and see it in action finally after working on it for a little bit. |
| 0:50.8 | So yeah, no, I'm feeling great. |
| 0:52.4 | Got back from a |
| 0:53.4 | dude's weekend for a bachelor party that was in winter park where we did some |
| 0:58.2 | sick mountain biking like legit mountain biking. We were going down blue squares and doing lots of little jumps and it was |
| 1:07.1 | terrifying I haven't ridden a bike in like 10 years before this so I don't own a bike and yeah everyone was really worried for me and I ended up doing fine so it was it was a lot of fun. We did some a lot of mountain fun stuff. |
| 1:20.3 | That's really cool. I'm just about to head off. We're recording like a whole bunch of |
| 1:25.4 | episodes today and tomorrow just because I'm about to head off on some vacation or holidays, as you say, |
| 1:31.4 | and the rest of the world. and we're going to a cottage up in |
| 1:35.1 | Bancroft Ontario which is like this awesome cottage country area in Canada so I'm |
| 1:39.8 | super excited about that it's been a long couple of months of hard work and I'm |
| 1:43.7 | excited to have some time off. Nice that's great. Yeah we're doing a little |
| 1:48.0 | vacation as well. It's only like three or four days we're heading into Aspen we're gonna do some hikes we're gonna go |
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