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Jul 7, 2023 • 54min

Supper Club × Cloudinary with Colby Fayock

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Colby Fayock about Cloudinary’s new AI tools, media flow, removing backgrounds, using AI for video templates, and Colby’s stack for creating YouTube content. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:11 Who is Colby Fayock? ColbyFayock.com Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock)on Twitter ColbyFayock - Twitch colbyfayock on GitHub Colby Fayock (@colbyfayock) • Instagram 01:57 What is Cloudinary? Image and Video Upload, Storage, Optimization and CDN 03:03 What’s with the space jellyfish? 03:52 How is Cloudinary using AI for the web? Developer resources for using images and videos in your apps 09:54 What is media flow? 13:00 Who is the target audience for AI tools from Cloudinary? 17:03 Removing backgrounds Remove Background from Image for Free – remove.bg iPhone Messages stickers: How to make and use them - 9to5Mac 21:14 Cloudinary’s Video API ascorbic/unpic-img: Multi-framework responsive image component 22:44 Function calling in OpenAI 26:22 How do you deal with the random generation of AI? 29:00 What are the community SDKs for Cloudinary? 37:04 What’s your process for creating content for YouTube? 42:49 Supper Club Questions Open Broadcaster Software | OBS Facecam Pro – Elgato Recut — Automatic Video Editor Night Owl - Visual Studio Marketplace iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh 51:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ready To Drink Cold Brew Coffee | Trader Joe’s Shameless Plugs Colby Fayock on YouTube 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jul 5, 2023 • 48min

What are Headless Components?

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what headless components are, the why and when to use headless components, and how to best implement them. Show Notes 00:07 Welcome 02:33 Tailwind Connect Tailwind Connect 2023 | Tailwind CSS Live Event 04:37 Headless component overview Downshift Headless UI 06:57 A country dropdown component 12:52 Possibly like Svelte actions? 18:46 What do headless components provide? 19:13 Examples of headless component projects Microsoft Edge Demo 24:24 How does this compare to web components? Tanstack Table Tanstack Virtual 26:29 Checking out Shoelace Shoelace 28:42 Figma announcements What’s New in Figma 31:21 What does headless mean? 36:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 41:20 AI Voices ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Hacker News Recap /Hacker News Recap on Apple Podcasts Wes: Calipers Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jul 3, 2023 • 29min

Lightning CSS

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects. Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome 01:04:11 Overview of Lightning CSS Lightning CSS Devon Govett (@devongovett) Parcel 04:56:11 What’s in Lightning CSS? OKLCH 21:39:11 CSS Layers 24:57:14 Text decoration 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 30, 2023 • 59min

Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher? Armin Ronacher mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) Armin Ronacher Armin Ronacher Apache Kafka 04:11 What are queues and what are they used for? 08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue? 12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down? 18:31 How do you architect a queue? 20:20 How does it scale up? 27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events? Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation 33:45 How do you visualize the data? 37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix 40:22 How are you using Rust? Rust Programming Language 43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space? 45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server? 48:02 Supper Club questions 50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming? ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Bilderbuch Bilderbuch on Spotify Shameless Plugs Rye - An Experimental Package Management Solution for Python 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 2min

WTF is an ORM

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are. Show Notes 00:10 Welcome 00:39 Dental cleanings 03:00 What’s an ORM? 05:51 Benefits of using an ORM 12:54 Validation in ORM 19:18 What about Types? 23:44 Popular ORMs Prisma Sequelize Objection.js Knex.js DrizzleORM - next gen TypeScript ORM Mongoose ODM v7.3.1 TypeORM waterline.js 42:41 Potential downsides to using an ORM 45:53 Database schemas 52:30 Hooks or events 55:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson Wes: Wise, Formerly TransferWise: Online Money Transfers Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 26, 2023 • 42min

Where to Register a Domain

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about where you should register a domain name, explain DNS, and the process for moving a domain from one registrar to another. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:04 Domain name registration vs DNS 03:58 Domain name flattening 05:07 Domain name privacy 05:31 Proxy registrations 06:44 Bait and switch registrars 11:56 Domain registrars we found 13:09 NameCheap and Spaceship Namecheap Spaceship 17:42 GoDaddy GoDaddy 19:26 Ghandi Gandi.net 21:16 Porkbun Porkbun 22:18 Hover Hover.com 24:24 Name Name.com 26:24 Cloudflare Cloudflare 28:04 What’s the process for moving d iwantmyname DNSimpleomains to a new registrar? 30:38 I Want My Name and DNS Simple 33:05 Finding domain names 37:28 What would you pick to register a domain today? 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 23, 2023 • 60min

Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau? Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin) Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify 02:49 Is Valhalla from Gatsby? How to Source Content from a Headless CMS | Gatsby Valhalla Content Hub | Gatsby Netlify Connect Brings All Content Sources & CMS Apps Together 05:41 Valhalla is now Netlify Connect 09:32 How often should you scrape or cache from another API? 10:36 What about auth? 13:41 Will Netlify Connect be open source or paid? 18:48 Is GraphQL it? Overview | urql Documentation GQty 22:35 What odd data sources are you trying to connect? 26:06 How does Gatsby send out to APIs? 29:00 What CMS should people use? The Markdown CMS | Tina The platform to bring your best ideas to life | Contentful The Composable Content Cloud - Sanity.io 31:22 What do you think of component based CMS? SEO Enterprise Rank Tracker - A Keyword Rank Tracking Tool Like No Other | Nozzle.io 35:36 What are your thoughts on the React ecosystem? 43:33 What’s the future for Gatsby? 46:14 Supper Club questions folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac! Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software Dank Mono: The coding typeface for aesthetes DSchau/dotfiles: :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible defaults for macOS development (catered to Node.js) Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges Stream Movies & TV Shows | Plex The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin 56:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Arc Browser Resend React Email Shameless Plugs Netlify Netlify Connect 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 7min

Potluck × Warp × Skeleton UI × Edge Functions × Donut Scoping

In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about rate-limiting an API, using Wasp, Enums in TypeScript, styling React projects, using Edge functions, and more. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:53 Connecting at conferences JSNation – the main JavaScript conference of 2023 RenderATL 2023 | May 31 - June 2, 2023. | 80+ Speakers 04:10 What technique do you use for consuming a rate-limited API? 07:58 Is Wasp-lang.dev ticking all the boxes for an awesome full-stack JavaScript framework? Wasp 14:36 How do you guys feel about skeleton UIs? Skeleton | Open UI 19:10 How can i forward my http only auth cookies to my backend API? 22:28 What’s your opinion on using Enums in TypeScript? 29:46 How much off the clock time away from coding related activities do you have in a typical week? 37:10 What’s the best approach for styling React projects? 42:49 Donut scoping Scope donuts | Stubbornella 45:21 How do I add user registration and content uploading features to a website? Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans Image and Video Upload, Storage, Optimization and CDN RedwoodJS: The App Framework for Startups | RedwoodJS.com SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined Learn Node — The best way to learn Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Friends AdonisJS - A fully featured web framework for Node.js 53:25 Do you see any benefits in using edge functions if your audience is local? 59:20 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: * BOJACK 37 Values 480 Pcs Electronics Component Fun Kit with Power Supply Module, Jumper Wire,Precision Potentiometer,830 tie-Points Breadboard Compatible with STM32,Raspberry Pi,Arduino : Electronics Wes: * Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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Jun 19, 2023 • 18min

AsyncLocalStorage + AsyncContext API

Scott and Wes explore the world of AsyncLocalStorage and AsyncContext API, discussing their potential in sharing context among the call stack, middleware applications, and frameworks like Next.js and Cloudflare Workers. They also provide examples of usage and caution against potential footguns.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 4min

Supper Club × JavaScript on Hardware, Micro Controllers, ESP32 with Nick Hehr

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build involving hardware and software. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome to Syntax 01:04 Introducing Nick Hehr Nick Hehr (@hipsterbrown) HipsterBrown (@hipsterbrown@toot.cafe) - Toot Café HipsterBrown HipsterBrown (Nick Hehr) Nick Hehr on CodePen 03:58 Running JavaScript on microcontrollers 06:20 What was your first project that got you into this? 12:12 Is the ESP32 the most popular controller? 14:12 Where do you buy hardware? Arduino - Home Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits AliExpress - Online Shopping for Popular Electronics, Fashion, Home & Garden, Toys & Sports, Automobiles and More products - AliExpress SparkFun Electronics Introduction 🚀 xs-dev Documentation Welcome to Robo Wizard | Robo Wizard 16:52 What are people building with boards? 18:30 What does the JavaScript look like? 22:16 Can you make a Fetch request? 25:45 What about Arduino? 31:54 What’s a good starter project? Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform meganetaaan/stack-chan: A JavaScript-driven M5Stack-embedded super-kawaii robot. TC53 - Ecma International dtex/j5e: Framework for embedded devices using ECMA-419, the ECMAScript® embedded systems API specification, based on Johnny-Five’s API HipsterBrown/on-air-light: An offline-first IoT on-air light for video meetings, using ESP32 & JS ESPHome — ESPHome Being in the video game with Augmented Climbing | The Kid Should See This 36:03 Emulation and debugging 39:13 What else have you made? 44:31 ESP Home 54:35 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× 00:32 Shameless Plugs ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× The Opus Intro Kit – Fellow jdxcode/rtx: Runtime Executor (asdf rust clone) Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Petzold, Charles: 9780137909100: Books - Amazon.ca Shameless Plugs Introduction 🚀 xs-dev Documentation 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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