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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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Sep 15, 2023 • 48min

Supper Club × How To Get Your First Dev Job With Stuart Bloxham

Stuart Bloxham, a web developer, shares his journey of transitioning to coding, the challenges of balancing a demanding job and learning to code, frustrations in the job hunting process, the importance of a good text editor for web development, and advice for aspiring developers. The chapter also touches on taking credit, flower horn fish, and shameless plugs.
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Sep 13, 2023 • 51min

Hackweek Projects - Realtime Markdown Editor and a Hardware Recording Button

In this episode, the hosts review their projects from a hackweek, including a realtime Markdown multiplayer editor and a hardware recording button. They discuss challenges and creative solutions, such as using tip-tap collab for the editor and modifying an on-air light as a physical button. They also delve into their fascination with 3D modeling and printing, skate trainers, an F1 documentary, and share their software and hardware recommendations.
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Sep 11, 2023 • 31min

CSS Nesting is Here!

In this episode, Scott and Wes discuss the arrival of CSS nesting, its advantages in simplifying code, and improving coding efficiency. They explore the concept of CSS nesting, its implementation in different browsers, and its compatibility with media queries. They also compare CSS nesting to Sass, discuss the limitations and benefits of both, and touch on the role of jQuery in web development. The hosts speculate on the potential widespread adoption of Lightning CSS and its experimental support for CSS nesting.
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Sep 8, 2023 • 55min

Supper Club × What's New With Astro with Fred Schott

Guest Fred Schott discusses Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary.
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Sep 6, 2023 • 1h

Potluck × Soft Skills × Release Notes × Headless CMS × Organizing Code × Inet CSS?

The hosts discuss soft skills in web development, release notes and conventional commits, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, inset in CSS, and using AI/chat GPT for technical documentation.
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Sep 4, 2023 • 24min

JavaScript Closures & Scope Explained

In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss concerts, getting tired, landscaping, gym updates, awful search engines, Linus Tech Tips ethics, rewiring engines, and what they're streaming. They cover closures in JavaScript, understanding scope, dynamic scoping, and the applications of closures in functional programming and object-oriented programming.
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Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 9min

Supper Club × Shipping ESM with Mark Erikson

Mark Erikson, expert in shipping ESM and dealing with permutations, discusses challenges in shipping packages, benefits of using ESM, TypeScript type challenges and tools, and source maps in React and Redux. They also discuss computer setup, coding recommendations, and different module formats in JavaScript.
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Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 6min

Anything but Coding - Landscaping, Fitness, and more!

Hosts discuss topics such as concerts, landscaping, gym updates, awful search engines, ethics for YouTubers, rewiring engines, and what they're watching. They also reminisce about tired days after concerts, share experiences with landscaping and transforming a storage room into a gym, and discuss fitness app reviews and the foam method for securing fence posts and tree houses. They also mention their enjoyment of sports documentaries and cleaning with a steam cleaner.
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Aug 28, 2023 • 30min

OG Image Options

The podcast discusses OG images, including testing with Polypane and tools like meta tags.io. Creating OG images is covered, with mentions of Vercel's OG Image Generation and using SVG. Dynamic OG image generation is explored with Puppeteer and alternatives like Playwright. Further options for image manipulation are discussed, such as Satori and Cloudinary.
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Aug 25, 2023 • 50min

Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai

Aiden Bai discusses Million.js, a library that makes React components 70% faster. They explore how Million.js optimizes the reconciliation process and its trade-offs. They also discuss benchmarking, website rendering, and personal website design.

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