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13 New CSS Features You Can Start Using Today
Scott and Wes discuss 13 new CSS features you can start using today in your projects
#CSS #Frontend
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GSAP: Killer Web Animations With Cassie Evans
Cassie Evans from GreenSock explains what GSAP is, why developers use it for animation, how it works, techniques for smooth performant animations, and new developments like GSAP becoming free and open source.
#javascript #animation
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Every Developer Needs a 3D Printer
Wes got a 3D printer and talks about how it works, use cases, places to get models, filament types, storage, modeling software and more.
#3dprinting #modeling #filament
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Making Your App Feel Faster Than It Really Is
Tips and tricks to make web apps feel faster through perceived speed improvements
#webdev #performance #ux
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Do I Still Need To Know JS/CSS/HTML with AI? × How To Sell An App × Is React Context Bad? × More
Wes and Scott answer developer questions sent in by listeners covering topics like AI, React, legacy code, app ideas, web development trends, and more.
#AI #React #CSS
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React Server Components: Where are we at?
Discussion on status of React server components 5 years after introduction - only fully supported in Next.js and Waku currently, with partial support in other frameworks.
#react #nextjs
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Open Source Matters w/ Chad Whitacre
Chad Whitacre from Sentry discusses the history of open source, differences between licenses and community-led vs single-vendor projects, Sentry's licensing and Open Source Pledge initiative.
#open-source #licensing #legal
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Everyone Is Talking About MCP
This episode discusses the Machine Context Protocol (MCP), which is a standardized protocol that allows large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to communicate with and control other applications and services. They talk about what MCP is, why it's useful, some examples of MCP servers, and how you can build your own MCP tools.
#ai #mcp #chatgpt #llm
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The History of Syntax
The history behind the Syntax podcast, from its beginnings in 2016 to being acquired by Sentry in 2021.
#Podcasting
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Light and Dark Mode
Discussion on adding light and dark modes to sites, considerations when doing so, and new CSS features to help
#CSS #Accessibility #Frontend
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Accepting Money on the Internet in 2025
Discussion on options and best practices for accepting payments online in 2025, including overview of payment processors, managing checkout flows, and avoiding fraud.
#payments #ecommerce #business
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Planning A Build
Wes and Scott discuss planning decisions for the Syntax v3 site rebuild including project management, code structure, tooling strategies, UI patterns, and more.
#WebDev #JavaScript #Svelte
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You Need a Monorepo × Client Only React × TanStack + More
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss monorepos, outdated Node packages, local storage, Next.js queries, Cloudflare Workers, ZeroSync with SvelteKit, full stack development, server update polling, domain names, and advice for new developers.
#nodejs #apis #tooling
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Vibe Coding Is a Problem
Discussion about AI assisted coding called vibe coding, where inexperienced developers quickly build apps by repeatedly prompting and tweaking code without closely reviewing it.
#vibecoding #AI
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AWS and IAC for Dummies with SST
Scott explains SST for configuring infrastructure on AWS and other providers, setting up a dev environment, debugging issues, and managing staging/production.
#AWS #Infrastructure #SST
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CSS Fonts Fallbacks, Variable and Trimming
Covers custom web fonts, strategies for handling font downloads, variable fonts for creative effects, and the text box trim/edge properties to control spacing.
#webfonts #typography #fontloading #css
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Typescript Just Got 10x Faster
The TypeScript team has ported the TypeScript compiler and tools to native Node code, realizing about a 10x performance improvement across parsing, type checking and emitting.
#typescript #performance #compiler
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Web Vitals Explained
Explains web performance metrics like largest contentful paint and what they measure. Also covers how to optimize scores and tools to analyze vitals.
#performance
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Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files
Aaron Francis discusses Laravel Fusion, a way to run Laravel code in Vue components. He talks about plans to support React, data syncing, optimistic UI, and more.
#laravel #vue #fusion
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What Happened to Remix. Worth Using Axios? Client Only Next.js?
Scott is back after a snowboarding accident and concussion. Topics include React frameworks, databases, mobile development, and more.
#React #Databases #Mobile
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Creator of Home Assistant: Web Components, Self Hosting and Home Hacking
Paulus Schouten, creator of the open source Home Assistant smart home platform, discusses the technologies enabling privacy-focused local home automation with extensibility
#javascript #privacy
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Fullstack Cloudflare
Overview of using Cloudflare Workers and associated services to build fullstack applications
#cloudflare #serverless #javascript
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You Are Sleeping On Nuxt, Nitro and Vue w/ Daniel Roe
Daniel talks about leading Nuxt and contributing to the Nitro server toolkit, emphasizing Nuxt's community-driven approach and extensibility compared to Next.js.
#nuxt #fullstack #oss
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Tailwind 4
Discussion of new features and improvements in Tailwind CSS 4 including better performance, CSS variable support, container queries and more modern CSS capabilities.
#tailwind #css #webdev
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MIDI & Music in the Browser
Discussion of capabilities provided by Web MIDI and Web Audio APIs for generating sound and music in the browser
#web-audio #web-midi #music
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JavaScript Signals Explained
Explainer on the concept of signals, which are reactive variables that can automatically cause side effects when they update. Signals are missing from base JS but are being proposed. All frameworks have some implementation of signals built in.
#javascript #reactivity #frameworks
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Fast Apps - Easy Perf Wins
Tips and strategies for improving web performance through caching, optimization, understanding metrics, and more.
#optimization #caching
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Standard Schema: The Universal JavaScript Data Interface
Discussion of the new standard schema effort to standardize data validation across JavaScript validation libraries like Zod, ValleyBot and Arctype.
#javascript #data #validation
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Too much AI × Disappointed in Firefox × Planning New Projects × Hard Truths
In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions on topics like finding truthful web development advice online, checking for null values in TypeScript, HTML tags for ecommerce, browser recommendations, lock files, sync engines, AI hype fatigue, lack of 3D web adoption, a bad app investment story, and more.
#frontend #javascript #typescript
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Coding Agents Cursor + Windsurf Tips
Discussion of using AI agents like Cursor for web development, focusing on the new agent mode for automating tasks.
#AI #Automation #Productivity
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Windsurf forked VS Code to compete with Cursor. Talking the future of AI + Coding
Discussion with Wind Surf CEO and VP of Product about the company's history, coding AI tools like Wind Surf, and the future of software development
#ai #coding #tools
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Node + TypeScript in 2025
Discussion on running TypeScript code in Node.js without needing compilation, now that Node supports type stripping. Covers limitations, tools like TSX and Deno, and the much smoother developer experience working with TypeScript.
#nodejs #typescript #deno
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The State of JavaScript
Wes and Scott discuss the State of JS survey results, including popularity of frameworks, tools and features.
#JavaScript #Tools
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Zero Sync is the Future of Data Loading
Deno Sync enables building fast, real-time web apps with local data syncing and the ability to bring your own Postgres database.
#deno #webdev #database
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2025 Web Development Predictions
In this 2025 web development predictions episode, Scott and Wes make guesses about what will happen in AI, React, CSS, Svelte, servers, and more over the next couple years.
#AI #React #2025
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CSS Performance × Rate Limiting × Array Sort Behavior - STUMP'd
Scott and Wes play a game of Stump'd, asking each other advanced web development questions on topics like JavaScript, CSS, Node.js and TypeScript.
#javascript #css #typescript #nodejs
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Durable Objects × Tab State Hacks × Headless CMS Choices + More
Topics covered include durable objects, PartyKit, anchor positioning browser support, importance of visual appeal, preferred hosting providers, new :has CSS selector, will CSS ever be "complete", issues with using MDX, recommended headless CMS, and a hockey podcast.
#Serverless #CSS #Podcasts
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2024: A Year in Review
Wes and Scott recap the key events in web development during 2024 and assess the accuracy of their 2023 predictions, including React ecosystem updates, the resurgence of Blue Sky, major improvements in CSS reducing reliance on JS, conferences attended, and changes coming to the Syntax podcast lineup.
#React #JavaScript #Podcasts
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Svelte 5 Is Here!
Discussion of new features in Svelte 5 including runes, unified state APIs, declarative $state, $derived, $effect, $inspect, snippets, and more.
#svelte #javascript #webdev
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Local Data: Sqlite, LocalStorage, Session, Cookies and IndexDB
Discussion on different ways to store data locally in the browser for things like user preferences, allowing app usage before signup, faster data access, privacy, persisting data on refresh, and storing auth tokens.
#local-storage #offline #privacy