New Year, New You. What to Focus on in 2022.

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk through what to focus on at a beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels of coding skills.

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Show Notes

• 02:30 Semantic HTML
• 07:36 JavaScript Data
• 08:54 Issues & technical workflow
• 11:40 Emailing People
• Syntax 117: How to Email Busy People
• 13:49 Make something animated with CSS
• Open Props Style
• 16:04 Make a full stack contact form in a framework
• 16:52 Sponsor: Sentry
• 18:59 CSS Variables
• 22:36 Server Side fundamentals
• 24:28 Meeting Skills
• 28:36 Help organize a codebase or repo.
• 30:26 Make something animated with JS
• 31:40 Write a bot
• 33:35 Sponsor: Linode
• 34:51 Write CI / CD actions / tools
• 37:55 Advanced Typescript
• 38:32 Teach at your company
• 39:35 Speak at a conference
• 40:45 Make something 3D
• Frame 3D
• React 3 Fiber
• Svelte Cubed
• 42:01 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 42:42 Scrape and write something to collect data
• 44:57 Sick Picks!
• 49:25 Shameless Plugs

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• Wes: Booty Slippers

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• Psychology of Devx
• Gitpod Community
• Workshops as Code
• Ghuntley.com

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