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Hasty × October 5th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Enums in JS (GraphQL and Typescript)

Discussion on what enums are and how they are used in various languages and systems like GraphQL, TypeScript and JavaScript

#enums #typescript #graphql
Wes BosScott Tolinski
288

Tasty × September 30th, 2020

Tales from Web Dev Past - Part 2

Discussion of outdated web development tools and techniques from 10-15 years ago.

#iframes #IE6 #sprite maps #firebug
Wes BosScott Tolinski
287

Hasty × September 28th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Records and Tuples in JavaScript

This episode covers immutable records and tuples in JavaScript - new proposed syntax for creating objects and arrays that are deeply immutable and support deep equality checks.

#immutability #javascript #records #tuples
Wes BosScott Tolinski
286

Tasty × September 23rd, 2020

Git Fundamentals

Covers Git fundamentals and basic commands

#git #github
Wes BosScott Tolinski
285

Hasty × September 21st, 2020

Hasty Treat - Our First Bucks Made From Web Dev, Teaching, YouTube and Tutorials

Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss the first money they made from web development, including client projects, ad revenue, product sales, teaching gigs, and agency work.

#first-jobs #side-hustles
Wes BosScott Tolinski
284

Tasty × September 16th, 2020

Writing Good CSS

Scott and Wes discuss frameworks, tools, scoping, and writing maintainable CSS.

#CSS #Tooling #WebDev
Wes BosScott Tolinski
283

Hasty × September 14th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Time Block Planning

Wes and Scott discuss time block planning, a productivity technique that involves scheduling all of your tasks, appointments, and breaks on a calendar to help manage your limited work hours.

#productivity
Wes BosScott Tolinski
282

Tasty × September 9th, 2020

Tales from Webdev Past - Clearfix × Floats × Cufon × Guestbooks × PNG Fix × More!

Scott and Wes discuss outdated web development techniques like table layouts, clearfixes, splash screens, guestbooks, Flash, and more.

#nostalgia #webdev #history
Wes BosScott Tolinski
281

Hasty × September 7th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Backyard Offices

Wes talks about converting a shed in his backyard into a home office during the pandemic

#office #backyard #conversion
Wes BosScott Tolinski
280

Tasty × September 2nd, 2020

Potluck - RIP Firefox? × Safari × Changing Careers × Regression Testing × Google Analytics Alternatives × Malicious Github Users? × Mac vs Windows × More!

Scott and Wes discuss the recent Mozilla layoffs and impact on web development, strategies for learning web development while working a full time job, and answer audience questions on React drag and drop, testing, analytics, malicious GitHub users, and more.

#web-dev #mozilla #react #analytics
Wes BosScott Tolinski
279

Hasty × August 31st, 2020

Hasty Treat - End of Season Wrap Up

Scott and Wes wrap up season 1 of Syntax and discuss plans for season 2, favorite episodes of the year, and the top 10 most downloaded episodes so far.

#Podcasts #JavaScript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
278

Tasty × August 26th, 2020

Potluck - MDX × Portfolio Projects × Code Commenting × CSS Properties × Reusable Components × More!

Scott and Wes answer listener questions on topics like MDX, ordering CSS properties, explaining complex code, portfolio projects for junior devs, the Sails.js framework, and using the replacer parameter in JSON.stringify().

#mdx #css #node #json
Wes BosScott Tolinski
277

Hasty × August 24th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Stump'd

Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski quiz each other on web development questions in a game called "Stumped" with silly banter

#JavaScript #React #WebDev
Wes BosScott Tolinski
276

Tasty × August 19th, 2020

Potluck - Subscriptions × ES Modules in Node × Chicken Thigh × Being a Good Dad × Refactoring × More!

Podcast discussing React, Node, careers, parenting, CSS, and whether custom solutions are better than pre-built tools like CMSs.

#react #node #css #careers
Wes BosScott Tolinski
275

Hasty × August 17th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Gatsby Tips

Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss tips for improving Gatsby websites, including layouts, animations, build optimization, and more.

#Gatsby #React
Wes BosScott Tolinski
274

Tasty × August 12th, 2020

How does stuff get added to CSS? Adam Argyle answers!

Adam Argyle explains the overall process for how new features and specifications get added to CSS, ranging from initial proposals to testing, implementing, and eventually becoming a standard.

#CSS #Standards #Processes
Wes BosScott TolinskiAdam Argyle
273

Hasty × August 10th, 2020

Hasty Treat - How To Refine Your Process

Scott and Wes discuss evaluating and refining personal systems and processes to improve productivity and efficiency.

#productivity #systems #efficiency
Wes BosScott Tolinski
272

Tasty × August 5th, 2020

React State Round Up

Scott and Wes discuss and compare several React state management libraries including Context, Redux, XState, Apollo, and more. They talk about the pros and cons of each, when you might want to use them, and share their experiences.

#react #front-end
Wes BosScott Tolinski
271

Hasty × August 3rd, 2020

Hasty Treat - Upgrading Next.js Syntax Site

Scott and Wes discuss upgrading the Syntax.fm site to use latest version of Next.js, including lessons learned from implementing API routes, static regeneration for new episodes, and more.

#nextjs #webdev #javascript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
270

Tasty × July 29th, 2020

Meteor's 2nd Life

Discussion with Meteor evangelist Felipe Nivola on Meteor's acquisition, the state of Meteor today, and what's coming up for the platform.

#meteor #javascript #webdev
Wes BosScott TolinskiFilipe Névola
269

Hasty × July 27th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Target=_blank security issue? What's the deal with noopener and noreferrer?

Discussion on the security implications of links that open in a new tab or window, and browser fixes to prevent malicious sites from accessing the opener window

#Security #Accessibility #Browser
Wes BosScott Tolinski
268

Tasty × July 22nd, 2020

Potluck - Beating Procrastination × Rollup vs Webpack × Leadership × Code Planning × Styled Components × More!

Potluck episode covering procrastination, planning code, CSS, leadership skills, side projects and more

#productivity #css #javascript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
267

Hasty × July 20th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Turbolinks + Server Generated HTML + JS Sprinkles

Overview of Turbolinks for fast page loads using server-generated HTML and discussion of integration with JavaScript frameworks.

#turbolinks #performance #server-side
Wes BosScott Tolinski
266

Tasty × July 15th, 2020

Video for the Web 2020 and Beyond

Overview of options and considerations for hosting and streaming video in 2020 with a deep dive into the tech stack Scott chose for his site

#video #hosting
Wes BosScott Tolinski
265

Hasty × July 13th, 2020

Hasty Treat - The Domain Name Game

Wes and Scott play a guessing game to identify obscure top level domain names. After falling behind early, Scott makes a dramatic comeback in later rounds to ultimately win.

#Domains #Games
Wes BosScott Tolinski
264

Tasty × July 8th, 2020

Jerome Hardaway + Vets Who Code

Discussion with Jerome Hardaway, executive director of Vets Who Code, on his background, founding VWC, their tech stack, being an ally, and skills learned in the military

#Veterans #Teaching #Jamstack
Wes BosScott TolinskiJerome Hardaway
263

Hasty × July 6th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Forms, Captchas, Honeypots, Dealing With Malicious Users and the Sad State of Contact Forms

Discussion of various techniques like honeypots, IP throttling, and CAPTCHAs to secure web forms from spam bots and malicious users while allowing legitimate use.

#webdev #security #spam
Wes BosScott Tolinski
262

Tasty × July 1st, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
261

Hasty × June 29th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
260

Tasty × June 24th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
259

Hasty × June 22nd, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
258

Tasty × June 17th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
257

Hasty × June 15th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
256

Tasty × June 10th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott TolinskiIan Ramzy
255

Hasty × June 8th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
254

Tasty × June 3rd, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
253

Hasty × June 1st, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
252

Tasty × May 27th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
251

Hasty × May 25th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
250

Tasty × May 20th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
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