Doing Physical Stuff Is Exhausting

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Webdepaper has been working on his office, and so we just moved to a new house. I ing on sound proofing and building an office in the basement. It's kind of just like pure chaos is really exhausting. We just got off a week at our cottage, but our whole extent of family came up,. And that was oarly nice, because people take nights cooking and like, people can watch the kids. Will you do something? So thats goot abouts. Ta, lovely. Ye. No, yes. Exhausting. But i'm very happy that i'm a webdepapercas doing physical stuff is hard. Let's get on into it.

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about middleman for API fetching, when to introduce SvelteKit, generating PDFs serverside, trade offs of being an entrepreneur vs employee, and more!

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Show Notes

00:18 Welcome
02:50 Is there a way to create a “middleman” to fetch data from an API once a day?
Redis
06:53 Should I wait before introducing team members to SvelteKit?
SvelteKit V1 issues
10:28 What options do we have for generating PDFs serverside?
WKHTML to PDF
Puppeteer
PhantomJS
html2canvas
Generate Invoice Workers
15:47 Sponsor: Prismic
17:08 How do you say thank you to sponsors?
18:32 How would you compare the tradeoffs of working at a tech company vs. an agency vs. freelancing vs. entrepreneurship?
20:47 What’s the best way for an oldie like me to catch up?
CSS Grid.io
Modern CSS Layouts
26:08 I’m wondering what do you think about tRPC?
trpc.io
Create t3 app
29:00 Sponsor: LogRocket
30:03 PDF creator Cloudflare worker
32:50 How do you feel about keeping separate accounts for things like Twitter?
37:28 Does using prototypes mean you are not doing functional programming?
42:09 PHP vs JavaScript based CMS
Ghost
Keystone
Strapi
45:15 Sponsor: Auth0
46:21 Why do you think this mindset that with age comes an inability to learn?
Syntax 44 How to Learn New Things Quickly
51:32 Are there other payment providers you guys recommend or should I stick with Stripe and hope for the best?
Stripe
Paypal
56:10 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××