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Our React Wish List
Wes and Scott discuss things they wish React and its ecosystem had out of the box without additional libraries and tooling.
#React#JavaScript
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Hasty Treat - Rural and Mobile Internet Revisited
Wes explains the various rural internet options available, the specific hardware needed to set up cellular internet, data plan considerations, and steps through his own setup at his cottage property without traditional ISP access.
#rural-internet#hardware-hacks#lte-internet
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Potluck - Libraries vs Frameworks × Firefox × Career Advice For Teenagers × Who Would Win a Thumb War? × More!
Potluck episode discussing libraries vs frameworks, browser choices, career questions, XState, styled components, podcast picks and more.
#React#Beginners#Career
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Hasty Treat - Some Neat CSS Functions That You Should Know About
Covers lesser known but useful CSS functions for accessing attributes, calculations, selecting children, trigonometry, clamping values, equal columns in grid, fitting content, and image filters.
#css#functions#tips
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The Fundamentals Leftovers - Terminal, Shortcuts, View Source, Github + More!
Covers terminal, typing, OS skills, GitHub, dev tools, and other web development basics and best practices.
#webdev#beginner#skills
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Hasty Treat - Scott Goes Linux with Pop OS
Scott talks about his bad luck with Apple laptops and his new System76 Lemur Pro laptop running Pop!OS Linux distro for development instead.
#linux#pop-os#system76
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WebRTC and Peer-to-Peer Video Calling with Ian Ramzy
Ian Ramsay discusses building a WebRTC-based video chat called ZipCall and his journey into programming
#webrtc#programming
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Hasty Treat - Slow Connections Part 2
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski continue their series on web performance, focusing on tips for making websites work well on slow Internet connections.
#performance#images#video
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Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup
This podcast episode provides a breakdown of headless CMS options, including hosted, self-hosted and API-based systems. Scott and Wes discuss key considerations when evaluating CMS choices and provide an overview of popular options in each category.
#CMS#Headless CMS
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Hasty Treat - Developing for Slow and Spotty Connections
Developing websites and apps to work well on slow, spotty, or offline connections by implementing things like service workers, skeleton screens, better loading indicators, and gracefully handling failures.
#offline#connectivity
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Potluck - Courses for Kids × Sub-Components × Recursion × DB Hosting × Frameworks × Data Structures & Algorithms × More!
In this potluck/Q&A episode, Scott and Wes discuss end-to-end testing, hosting podcast RSS feeds, Prismic CMS, education, git workflows, scaling challenges and new React frameworks.
#testing#education#scaling#reactjs
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Hasty Treat - Should You Support IE11?
Discussion on whether web developers should continue supporting Internet Explorer 11, including metrics to help decide, strategies for partial support, and modern features you can start using once IE11 support is dropped.
#ie11#webdev#testing
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Scott Teaches Wes Svelte and Sapper
In this episode Scott teaches Wes about Svelte, a new JavaScript framework that compiles away unused code for blazing fast performance. They cover features like built-in reactivity, cleaner templates vs JSX, routing with HTML anchors, and animations/transitions.
#svelte#webdev#javascript
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Hasty Treat - Scott's New Personal Website
Scott talks about his new personal website that he built using Svelte and Sapper. He took a relaxed approach and focused on custom animations, brutalist design, and fast performance rather than perfect code.
#Svelte#WebDev
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What's New in Javascript
Covers new JavaScript features coming in ES2019 and ES2020 including flat map, knowledge coalescing, global this, optional chaining and more.
#ES2019#ES2020#JavaScript
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Hasty Treat - Wes' New Personal Website
Wes Bos talks about rebuilding his personal website from WordPress to GatsbyJS, the tech stack he chose, migrating content, creative solutions for styling and content, and the hosting platform.
#gatsby#webdev#javascript
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Bootcamps, Getting a Job, and Income Share Agreements with Heather Payne
Heather Payne, founder of Juno coding bootcamp, discusses details of the program, student outcomes, the job search process, and innovations like income share agreements.
#bootcamp#curriculum#incomeshare
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Hasty Treat - Things You Should Know About Javascript Events
Covers key concepts around how JavaScript events work like bubbling, capturing, delegation, and preventDefault.
#javascript#events#webdev
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Potluck Part 2 - Magic GQLess × Are classes dead? × Custom Hooks × Staying Up To Date × CSS × More!
Potluck episode discussing Cloudinary, CSS, sharing projects, open source, Sentry, agencies, micro frontends, React hooks, project managers
#potluck#discussion#tips
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Hasty Treat - Getting Buy-in for a Tool Like Prettier From Your Team
Advice on convincing a development team to adopt code formatting tools like Prettier
#team dynamics#productivity#code quality
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Potluck - Mobile First × Arrow Functions × Deno × JSON APIs × Refactoring Tips × More!
Scott and Wes answer audience questions on various web development topics in a podcast potluck episode.
#mobile#react#apis
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Hasty Treat - 5 More Things That Make Your Site Slow
In this episode Wes and Scott discuss 5 more performance tips to make your web applications faster, including bundling JavaScript code, enabling gzip compression, loading scripts asynchronously, and adding database indexes.
#webdev#javascript#performance
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Thinking Ahead for Emergency UI When Building a Website
How to prepare your website and web development skills for emergency UI updates such as notices and banners
#webdev#UX
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Hasty Treat - 5 Things That Make Your Site Slow
Covers 5 things that can slow down your website and how to speed it up: time to first byte, too many requests, large assets, lazy loading, and content delivery networks.
#performance#optimization#speed
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Working From Home During the Pandemic (With or Without Kids)
Tips for working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, including setting up your workspace, maintaining focus and routine, balancing family responsibilities, and taking care of your mental health.
#productivity#family
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Hasty Treat - Abstraction
Wes and Scott discuss abstraction in programming - what it is, when to use it, benefits like reusability and testing, guidelines, examples of good abstraction, and differences between personal and public code.
#abstraction#javascript#components
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Mental Health and Dev ft Dr. Courtney Tolinski - Depression, Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, Focus, Motivation, Burnout
Podcast discussing mental health issues for developers including depression, anxiety, focus, motivation and stress with tips on addressing them.
#mental-health#wellness#productivity
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Hasty Treat - Get Gud at Passwords & Password Management
How to create strong passwords, use password managers effectively, enable two-factor authentication, and more.
#security#privacy#tips
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Potluck - Bootcamps × Career Change × Figma × Gatsby × AMP × Mongoose × More!
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about a variety of web development topics in this potluck episode.
#Bootcamps#GatsbyJS#BlitzJS
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Hasty Treat - Purchasing Power Parity
Wes talks about implementing purchasing power parity pricing in his store to make his courses more affordable globally based on the relative income levels in different countries.
#pricing#global#accessibility
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React Hooks - 1 Year Later
Scott and Wes discuss their thoughts on React Hooks after using them for a year. They go over the various hooks, custom hooks, and how hooks have changed their code.
#react#javascript#webdev
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Hasty Treat - Hiring an Assistant
Wes discusses his experience hiring a local assistant to handle administrative tasks like email, invoices, and shipping which allows him to focus on higher priorities. He covers finding the right working relationship, tools they use, tone for replies, and advice if you're considering getting help.
#assistant#productivity
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Soft Skills Tips
In this wide ranging soft skills episode, Scott and Wes discuss productivity techniques like creating prioritized to-do lists, getting ideas out of your head and into a system, and batching related tasks. They also cover communication skills, planning tools, and share career advancement tips.
#productivity#organization#planning
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Hasty Treat - Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare
Overview of various Cloudflare services like DNS management, caching, DDoS protection and discussion on how to set it up.
#cloudflare#cdn#dns
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More on Severless - Databases × Files × Secrets × Auth × More!
Scott and Wes continue their serverless discussion, talking about secret management, vendor lock-in, sharing dependencies, local development, migrating apps, databases, and file storage.
#serverless#cloud#javascript
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Hasty Treat - The Status of Element Queries / Container Queries
Discussion on the status of container queries and element queries in CSS - what they are, challenges to implementation, and potential solutions.
#css#webdev
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Potluck - Next vs Gatsby × Headless CMS × Vue.js × Is Ruby on Rails still good? × More!
Scott and Wes answer listener questions on building subscription sites, browser tabs, CSS preprocessors, React styling approaches and more web development topics.
#potluck#styling#CSS
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Hasty Treat - What makes a server fast?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how to make servers fast!
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Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about serverless and cloud providers - the benefits, limitations, providers and more!
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Hasty Treat - Get Movin' With Framer Motion
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Framer Motion — why it is so cool, and how it can improve animations in your projects.