Potluck × Testing Animations × Tools for Learning × Coding Related Injuries

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about what to do with client projects, testing animations, evaluating front-end frameworks, tools to use when learning, and coding related injuries. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:25 Sponsor: Sentry 01:22 Landscaping update 02:27 What do you do when you are done a client project? 10:09 Should I keep animations in our tests so our tests match prod behavior? 14:05 How does ChatGPT fill the responses to the prompt? 17:14 What is the best way to evaluate and choose a front-end framework for a project? 21:10 Should functions only be used strictly for code that is going to be re-used? 26:03 What kind of tools and processes do you use when learning? Obsidian Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. 30:19 What are your opinions on using “display: grid” simply to be able use the gap property on the elements inside? 33:57 What do you guys think of being a 1-language dev? 36:38 What are some tips you have to push back on requirements from clients? 41:11 Have you guys ever had any coding related stress injuries, like back issues or carpal tunnel? MoErgo Glove80 Wireless Split Ergonomic Keyboard GitHub Next | Hey, GitHub! 48:41 What do you think of using “Feature Flags” in the codebase to enable / disable features at runtime? 51:19 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: History for Granite Wes: GreatScott!, bigclivedotcom Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Discord Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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	Welcome to syntax today. We've got a potluck episode for you today. This is where you bring
0:16.4	the questions we bring the answers. We've got some fantastic questions all about web development
0:21.5	and node and type script and all kinds of good stuff set up today. We're excited to dive into
0:27.2	let's talk about one of our sponsors real quick and that is century at century.io. They are
0:33.3	the amazing error exception performance tracking company out there basically how it works is that
0:39.8	you throw century into your existing application. They work with all the languages, they work with
0:44.4	all the frameworks, they work with all the libraries. You put it in your front end, you put it in
0:50.8	your back end and it will collect information about what went wrong, who it went wrong for,
0:55.6	how it went wrong, all that information. This little treasure trail of information has to
1:01.3	what went wrong and it really helps you figure out what's going and honestly you can just log in
1:08.0	you can take a look at all right what do I want to fix today or is something going totally wrong
1:13.6	you can make that it immediately make that into a GitHub issue it will try to pinpoint which commit
1:19.6	it actually did who possibly committed to create the thing awesome stuff you're going to check
1:26.0	it out at century.io use a coupon code tasty treat for two months for free thank you century
1:30.8	for sponsoring deck cool I'm going to apologize to everybody I have a double whammy today I have a
1:37.2	cough I'm a little sick I'm not coughing at the mic so hopefully you won't you might just hear
1:41.8	my voice but to it is what it's 34 degrees outside for west I don't know what that means for you it's
1:50.2	close to freezing and our direct next door neighbor who's awesome by the way they have some
1:58.6	landscapers out there who's landscaping at like nearly freezing at Monday morning at you know
2:04.8	early in the morning here I've just like this is the type of thing you expect during the summer
2:09.9	or the afternoon or something but not during the winter still in Denver here so I don't know what
2:17.3	whose idea is to start landscaping so you might hear some chainsaws or whatever they have going
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