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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

SSR, SEO, Tips for Students, music, security and GraphQL

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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

2:15

  • What’s the best resource for staying up to date with Javascript?

3:48

  • How do you stay motivated if you don’t like your current project?

7:08

  • What’s your favorite music to work to?

11:10

  • In what order should developers learn tools related to GraphQL?

13:48

  • As a JS developer, is it a good idea to learn other languages like PHP or Python?

19:55

  • As a CS undergrad, what can you do in terms of programming that could be a great benefit after graduation?

23:14

  • Should you be concerned about SEO when using JS frameworks like React?

28:17

  • How can you build your network when you’re too tired or busy to go to a bunch of meetups?

32:55

  • How do you come up with such good designs and UI for your courses?

36:37

  • As more websites move to secure connections, where can a noob learn the basics of https, SSL certificates, how to deploy a secure website, etc.?

43:05

  • Have you had experience working for large companies and how does it compare to smaller companies and/or freelancing?

47:30

  • What are other programming podcasts you listen to?

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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 Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.5

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of syntax with me as always as

0:15.8

Scott Tylinsky how you doing today Scott hey I'm doing super good we just had a

0:20.2

ton of fan we had both sets of in-laws, my parents, Courtney's parents were both staying at the house and we do not have the accommodations to support that many people.

0:32.0

So it was tight quarters, but it was just a lot of fun to have everyone in town.

0:36.4

I got to see a bunch of family and yeah, it was just it was just really nice, really nice to have everyone out here. about you how you doing doing good it's

0:44.5

super nice out here is weird like in April we had like a weird freak snowstorm and

0:50.5

then in May we've had like temps that are like like it was 35 here the other day let me convert that to American

0:57.4

That would be cold here is that cold there was

1:01.4

35 is 95 Fahrenheit 95 Fahrenheit. So it's not cold. It's very hot. It's been like

1:08.0

smoking hot the last couple days and I've been loving it we're going up to a

1:11.1

friend's cottage this weekend and I can't wait.

1:13.2

That's awesome. Yeah yeah so today we are talking all about what are we talking about today we have

1:19.5

a potluck going down today so we try to do these potlucks once a month where we take your

1:24.8

questions and we just talk about smaller things because a lot of times we want to talk

1:29.5

about stuff that doesn't fit into a huge show and we often get a lot of questions from you so hopefully we can

1:35.1

rattle through six or seven different questions and touch upon a whole bunch of different topics.

1:40.6

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1:45.3

coffee cup software, which has made an amazing CSS grid tool. So for anyone working with CSS grid which should be many of you by

1:56.4

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