In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what can be done with the OpenAI API, how to get started with it, pricing, tuning your model, and gotchas for getting started with the OpenAI API. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 01:17 Sponsor: Sentry 02:39 What is the OpenAI API? 05:11 Getting started with the API 07:41 How run OpenAI OpenAI API 14:16 GPT4 update 17:58 Tune your models 19:46 Generating questions with ChatGPT 24:30 Speech to text Otter.ai - Voice Meeting Notes & Real-time Transcription Descript | All-in-one video & podcast editing, easy as a doc. 26:12 Related API 27:33 LangChain 32:12 Save your replies 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

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Travis Neilson about his work at Google, YouTube music, and where AI is at now, and where it’s headed in the future. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 00:55 Guest introduction Travis Neilson (@travisneilson) Travis Neilson dot com Travis Neilson on Skills Gap, Design, Focus and Working at Google — Syntax Podcast 142 Awwards Conference talk https://www.youtube.com/LittleMusicBoxes 06:29 Convos about AI 07:49 How do we keep humanity with AI? 15:42 Is this the printing press or is this putting everyone out of a job? 19:21 What is Google using AI for these days? 25:59 How do we keep human interface via AI? 31:18 What is the evolution of AI chat windows? 34:05 How do you nourish your AI with data? 39:59 Halluncinations in AI 47:46 What models are exciting to you? 52:01 We’re building the window for the next generation 54:55 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× The Age of Spiritual Machines The Singularity is Near The Shape of Design Shameless Plugs 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

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning web dev at an older age, making your apps look better, building a video streaming site, mono repo vs regular, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 00:31 Sponsor: Sentry 01:43 DST update Tales of Taboo 03:45 Is it too late to learn web dev at an older age? 10:20 How do people produce work so quickly? 13:47 How can I make my web apps look better visually? Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals Tailwind UI - Official Tailwind CSS Components & Templates CSS · Bootstrap 18:41 Not losing the niceties with not having to do a full page load 22:23 Should I use a script to generate an index JS/TS file? 24:55 If you were going to make a video streaming website, what technologies would you use? The API to Video | Mux Vimeo – Video Experience Platform Live Streaming on AWS | AWS Solutions Video on Demand | AWS Solutions Cloudflare Stream | Video streaming made easy and affordable at scale 29:11 What should I do if my boss wants me to move up the business ladder? 31:58 I’m confused about hydration in frameworks like SvelteKit. 37:07 What’re the advantages of a mono repo over a regular one? 39:50 Is it better to stay put at a place even if you’re unhappy right now? 43:13 How should I ingest tv scripts into a database? 46:24 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: The Stronger By Science Podcast Wes: Merten and Storck Carbon Steel Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials 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

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why you might need to tunnel to your local computer, and how to set that up securely. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:24 Welcome 01:09 GitHub tarball web streams 05:09 Sponsor: Sentry 05:48 Why would I need security locally? Caddy Server 11:23 Cookie issues 13:04 Examples of things that need a secure context MDN Features restricted to secure contexts 14:58 What is tunneling? 19:22 Cloudflare Tunnels Cloudflared Cloudflare Tunnel 20:50 nGrok ngrok 23:22 Local tunnel Local Tunnel 24:55 Tunnel to Tunnel to dev - Expose your local web server to the internet with a public URL 26:02 Cloudflare subdomain 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

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Sponsor: Sentry 02:05 Who is Dax Raad? Dax on Twitter thdxr.com Tomorrow.fm Podcast SST.dev 04:22 Why doesn’t AWS have a simple way to build on top of it? 07:46 What is Open Next? Vercel Next.js Open-Next.js 10:25 How many people are involved in building Open Next? 11:14 Mapping Next.js to Amazon products 14:25 What is the edge? 18:56 Pricing in serverless 23:33 What about image assets? 25:02 Is the CDK a layer on top of something Amazon is doing? Amazon CDK 27:23 What is terraform? Terraform 28:50 What is SST and why SST? 30:54 Do I build with SST or on top of SST? 32:06 How do you do local development with SST? 37:01 What about databases with SST? 40:12 What about build pipelines? 42:28 What is Seed? Seed 43:52 Any advice for someone learning AWS? SST on YouTube 46:05 Supper Club questions Neovim Toyko Night theme Nerd Fonts Astro TypeScript Alacritty i3 Cloudflare Inside the Meteoric Rise—and More Epic Flop—of HQ Trivia 52:45 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Planetscale Shameless Plugs Rebase.tv @RebaseTV on Twitter Tomorrow.fm episode on Rebase.tv 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

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott are in the same room together brainstorming new ideas for the Syntax.fm website: search, transcripts, video, tags, audio player, podcast hosting, and more! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 01:08 Sponsor: Sentry 01:43 Brainstorming for Syntax’s new website 02:27 Are there good podcast websites out there? 03:26 Homepage design 07:33 How would you handle login? 09:40 Search on the site SvelteKit docs Flexsearch 13:59 Transcripts Open AI Whisper Whisper AI for podcasters 18:25 The player 21:11 Tagging 23:45 Video Linus Tech Tips - WAN Show 27:45 Show notes 29:57 Surfacing good content on the podcast 35:30 Interactions 36:25 Deploy to Podcast Host Libsyn Editor Chris on Mastodon 38:43 Code base Syntax website on GitHub 45:21 Listener feedback 46:27 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Screen door dog Wes: Apple Watch bands Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials 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

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes explain the what, why, and how of web streaming, and some of the jargon you might encounter with web streams. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:26:11 Welcome 00:59:07 Sponsor: Sentry 01:39:17 What are Web Streams? 03:15:11 Why are web streams picking up steam lately? 04:41:21 How are web streams streaming? 09:28:11 Searching a database can use streaming 13:07:11 Web stream jargon 18:06:11 FileReader is a Stream 19:31:05 Other Types of Streams Cloudlfare HTML Rewriter 21:50:05 ReadableStream and Writable Stream 27:23:00 Creating a Writable Stream 28:39:11 TextDecoderStream 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

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Eric Sartorius about his life as a digital nomad - including recently climbing Kilimanjaro, his tips for travel deals, crazy experiences while travelling, and what he brings on the road with him. Show Notes 01:02 Guest introduction EricSartorius.com Eric on GitHub PureFunc Train Surfing Get Stream 02:51 Where have you travelled? 04:27 What are the challenges of being a digital nomad? 09:08 How do you research before travel? 13:04 How do you approach applying for a job? 21:10 Do you travel with other digital nomads? R16 video 22:43 What are the best locations you’ve been? 24:21 What about health and insurance? Tiny Toones TSA post raw meat on carousel 28:21 What motivated you to want to climb Kilimanjaro? 41:14 What gear do you travel with for web dev? Osprey Talon 33 Packing cubes Outlier Google Fi Google Flights explore 51:12 Using credit card points for flights 54:45 How do you handle customs? 00:13 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Comfort 2.0 Czech sock shoes Shameless Plugs PureFunc @TheEpicLife on Instagram Pamoja Safaris 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

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through all the reasons your website might be slow, and how you can troubleshoot a slow website such as issues on the server, large assets, caching, CSS, JavaScript, latency, and more. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:11 Welcome Glove 80 keyboard Raycast 03:06 Sponsor: Sentry 05:15 What makes a website slow? Uses.tech 06:29 Server Generation Times 13:33 Large payloads Redis Gzip Brotli compression Cloudflare Cloudinary 18:13 Assets being too large 23:01 Caching assets 28:25 CDN 30:35 Caching 101 37:04 Render blocking requests 40:01 CSS 42:25 JavaScript 44:51 Latency 49:17 Flash of dark mode or unsigned out 55:00 Data uris Content-visibility vite-plugin-singlefile Pool in your URL 58:11 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: 3Blue1Brown Wes: Suavecito Firme Clay Pomade Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials 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

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about two new services that allow you to run Node in the browser, WebContainers + NodeBox. Why Node in the browser? How does it work? And what are the differences and limitations of the services? Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:14 Sponsor: Sentry 02:45 Webcontainers and NodeBox Introducing WebContainers Code Sandbox CodePen Replit GitHub Codespaces 06:42 Why Node.js in the browser? 11:08 How does it work? 13:10 Clientside APIs 14:27 Using iFrame to proxy messages 17:39 Are these open source? 19:22 Differences between the two services 21:10 Wes to Figma, Scott to Penpot Figma Penpot 24:51 Limitations 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