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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Tasty Treats β€” Rems VS Ems, Remote Work, Making Money, Getting good at Design + more! 🍬

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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

4.9 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Show Notes

  • Q: Rems vs Ems vs Pixels? What do you use?
  • Q: What activity, that isn't developer related, benefits you most as a developer?
  • Becoming a Supple Leopard
  • Q: Is a hot dog a sandwich? 🌭
  • Q If Google offered you a job today, would you take it?
  • Mike Rowe: Why Entrepreneurs Crave the 'Reverse Commute'
  • Q: How did Wes and Scott Meet?
  • Q: What are your thoughts on CMSs, like WordPress, adding JavaScript frameworks, like React?
  • Q: Where do you find remote work?
  • Q: How do you make money?
  • Q: Can a back-end dev become a good designer?
  • Hero Patterns
  • Steve Schoger's Twitter
  • Q: Do you ever feel tired?
  • Q: What do you think about live streaming?
  • Should we do a Syntax live stream?!
  • Q: What stack should a new developer use?
  • Q: What is your process for deciding on new tools?
  • React FAQ - sign up for Tim's newsletter!
  • Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax, where we deliver tasty treats for web developers.

0:11.3

Hello everybody, welcome to another syntax today.

0:15.0

We're gonna have sort of a Q&A show or like like mini treats show where we don't have

0:20.7

one specific topic but we're going to sort of rattle through

0:23.7

a bunch of questions that we sort of have. It doesn't necessarily have enough to make up an

0:28.0

entire show but enough to have some nice little Q&A. So, Scott, how are you doing today?

0:34.7

I'm tired.

0:35.9

Yeah, so it's having a, you know,

0:40.9

a four-month-old is is can be rough sometimes very rough slowly

0:46.2

slowly waking up here but I'm doing my best how about you that's good that's good

0:50.3

I'm doing pretty good we also had a bit of a rough night. I just got home last night or last afternoon

0:56.8

A trip to I was in New Orleans for CSS Devkof, which was super fun. It's always a really fun conference. I met a whole bunch of really cool people

1:06.7

learned a lot about CSS and I did a job. I'm always the guy that comes into the JavaScript talk at a CSS conference and then I did a

1:14.6

react workshop so that was really fun and then my wife and I sort of took a couple days

1:17.8

to hang out in New York before coming home so feeling good but also feeling tired. Yeah nice a little hangover from the the trip.

1:28.0

Yeah, yeah exactly. So let's jump right into it. This is going to be all over the place in terms of soft skills, hard skills, whatever.

1:37.0

I thought we'd start off with a very technical one, which is do you use REMs, M's, or pixels, or v w v h or whatever, like what is the best way?

1:46.9

And what are your thoughts on that, Scott?

1:48.6

Yeah, I largely for the most part use REMs for everything.

1:53.7

I like them because I don't have to worry about the container,

1:57.0

potentially having that multiplication effect or

2:00.3

whatever you would want to call that.

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