From School Dances to Tech Stacks: Navigating Nostalgia and Innovation

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the work in progress on the new Syntax website, how to tackle all the moving parts, what stack they picked, AI, and more.

• 00:10 Welcome
• 00:56 Leaky roofs
• 02:18 How we divided the workload for the new Syntax site
• Issues of Syntax v2
• V2 of the website
• 02:55 Dark mode vs light mode
• 04:46 Our project management stack
• 06:36 High school dances
• 08:36 Tech stack for Syntax v2
• Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
• PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform
• 16:44 PostCSS and Sveltekit
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
• Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams
• 17:57 Auth
• Authorizing OAuth Apps
• oAuth APIs Explained — Syntax Podcast 599
• 23:15 Transcription
• Otter.ai - Voice Meeting Notes & Real-time Transcription
• Amazon Transcribe – Speech to Text - AWS
• Introducing Whisper
• WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
• Speech-to-Text: Automatic Speech Recognition Google Cloud
• Deepgram: World’s Most Powerful Speech-to-Text API
• 35:54 Theming system
• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
• 43:38 AI Shownotes
• 53:02 Ingest process
• 00:24 Markdown as the source of truth
• 01:50 AI Embeddings
• Vector Database for Vector Search | Pinecone
• Introducing Ask Netlify: a new way of engaging with Netlify Docs with AI-Powered interactions
• 09:22:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: Jury Duty
• Wes: Ted Lasso

• Scott: Syntax Discord
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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