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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Sticker Mogul 2022

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Wes' experience designing, printing, and shipping out his sticker packs. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 01:26 Sponsor: LogRocket 02:15 Sponsor: Linode 03:51 How Wes sells stickers Syntax 346: Selling And Shipping T Shirts with TypeScript 04:27 Where the stickers are printed Zigpac 06:30 How the stickers were designed 07:38 How do you ship them anywhere in the world for $5? 10:46 Packing the stickers 13:58 How did Wes sell the stickers? 16:51 Any concern about two people ordering at the same time? 17:13 One thing that did break Pushover 18:13 How the stickers were shipped Stallion Express APC 25:42 Costs for stickers 28:37 TypeScript sticker logo 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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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

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Web development! The hastiest! The courageous! The tastiest! Web development

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treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

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Tolinsky!

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Welcome to syntax! This Monday, hasty treat, we're going to be talking about Wes.

0:34.0

Wes's transformation into a JavaScript sticker mogul. And this is going to be the second

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episode that we've done on Wes's sticker mogul journey. And he just did a giant

0:46.0

sticker drop, which you probably saw all over the internet, especially if you're following

0:49.0

this show. So we're going to be talking a little bit about what went into that, how it

0:53.0

went a little bit of just about the logistics of shipping billions of stickers. And I

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don't mean literal billions, but you get the point. Lots of stickers all over the world.

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My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado, and with me, as

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always, is the sticker mogul himself, Wes, the sticky man boss. It's 165,000

1:15.0

stickers. Basically a little bit more about the stats, but it's close to a billion

1:20.0

yeah, round up, round up. This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies,

1:24.0

Linode and log rocket. Now, log rocket is the perfect place to see all of your

1:29.0

errors and exceptions handled in a really awesome video scrubbable replay that

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allows you to not only get access to what the user clicked on when it broke,

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you get to see visually and just like with your own eyes, what they clicked on

1:44.0

and broke. So that way you don't have to be like, what were you doing?

1:47.0

Which operating system were you on? What page? What were you doing? You can see

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