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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Supper Club × Raycast with Thomas Mann

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Thomas Mann about Raycast - an app that can replace Spotlight on your Mac, and do so much more. FireHydrant - Sponsor  Incidents are hard. Managing them shouldn’t be. FireHydrant makes it easy for anyone in your organization to respond to incidents efficiently and consistently. Intuitive, guided workflows provide turn-by-turn navigation for incident response, while thoughtful prompts and powerful integrations capture all of your incident data to drive useful retros and actionable analytics.  Did we mention that FireHydrant is free? Get started at Firehydrant.com/syntax   Show Notes @ThomasPaulMann 01:49 What is Raycast? Raycast Raycast Store 08:11 Do you have designers on your team to help guide UI? 10:13 Why build it native instead of HTML and CSS? 13:12 Why did you choose React? 21:54 How do you figure out what’s possible in system level APIs? 26:40 Snippets make use of SQLite SQLite 29:05 Encrypted local storage data 33:11 Any plans for theming for Raycast? 35:20 What is the pricing model? 37:06 What was your Y combinator experience like? Y Combinator Careers 42:08 Any plans for future features? 44:08 Supper Club questions Leopold FC660C Black 65% Dye Sub PBT Mechanical Keyboard iTerm Starship 51:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Nothing Ear Buds 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry!

0:02.4

Who I'm starving?

0:04.2

Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.

0:08.1

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss' attempt to use human language to converse with

0:14.2

and pick the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was gonna be food.

0:18.7

So buckle up and grab that old f***ing handle.

0:21.8

Because this ride is going to get wild.

0:26.1

This is The Syntax Summer Club.

0:36.1

Welcome to Syntax.

0:38.1

This is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:42.1

We've got another supper club for you with...

0:45.1

I believe...

0:46.1

Are you the creator of Raycast Thomas?

0:48.1

That's correct.

0:49.1

Yeah, I want off the co-founders of it.

0:51.1

One of the co-founders of Raycast,

0:54.1

which is...

0:55.1

I'm gonna call it a productivity app.

0:57.1

It's app launcher, a calculator, a converter, literally everything.

1:02.1

And it seems to be eating all of the other applications that I use.

1:07.1

It seems to be like, every two weeks, oh, that takes care of another...

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