Potluck - Programming Languages × Soft Skills × PHP vs JS × Breakdancing x Spice Blends
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott answer your questions! This month - programming languages, how to practice soft skills, PHP vs JS, is it every too late to become a developer, and more.
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Show Notes
5:00
- Why don’t you work with Typescript?
10:52
- How do you recommend working with APIs/libraries that compete with the DOM (e.g. d3 + react, react + google maps)?
13:40
- What is meant by the word “state” when referring to Vue or React?
16:32
- How do you practice and get better at “soft skills” (e.g. burnout, freelancing, time management, confrontation)?
- Syntax 025 - Dealing with email overload
- PaperKarma - The App to Stop Junk Mail
28:23
- Do you guys use different environments (e.g. “QA” and “Prod”)? What are some best practices?
- Semaphore - Test and deploy your code
- Sentry - Open-source error tracking
32:43
- As someone trying to break into the field of programming, should you build everything from scratch, or it ok to use plugins and libraries?
38:52
- What would WordPress be like if it were built on Node and GraphQL?
- Ghost
46:54
- I’m learning JavaScript at 34… Do you think I can learn to breakdance at 34 too?
51:16
- How do you handle high level page layout when using styled components?
53:13
- As a junior dev, should I switch from PHP and Laravel to full stack JS? I love PHP, but JS is taking over.
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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. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello everybody and welcome to Syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats. |
| 0:15.6 | Today we've got a potluck episode which is when you bring the questions and Scott and I attempt to answer them. |
| 0:22.4 | I always like these episodes a lot because we tend to... questions and I attempt to answer them. |
| 0:22.6 | I always like these episodes a lot because we tend to touch upon a lot of different topics, |
| 0:28.7 | whether it's soft skill stuff or related to JavaScript or just like being a professional in our industry. |
| 0:34.8 | So today's episode is sponsored by Fresh Books, |
| 0:38.0 | which is Cloud Accounting, and MLab, |
| 0:39.7 | which will host your Mongo-Db database. |
| 0:42.5 | We'll talk about those part way through the episode. |
| 0:45.4 | With me as always is Scott Tolinsky. |
| 0:47.3 | How you doing today, Scott? |
| 0:48.5 | Hey, I'm doing super good. |
| 0:50.4 | Super good. |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah, not too much to report here. How about you? What's going on? |
| 0:55.0 | Not too much. I've just been heads down recording for about two weeks on my advanced |
| 1:00.4 | react course and it's going really, really well. I'm super happy. I just |
| 1:04.7 | finished up the permissions videos a couple days ago which I'm super happy with how |
| 1:08.9 | they went. That was probably the hardest part because it's kind of this like cyclical thing where in order to manage |
| 1:15.4 | permissions you need permissions but in order to need permissions you need to manage permissions and |
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