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Hasty × December 28th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Hosting + Web Services Pricing Explainer

This episode explains different pricing models for hosting and web services like paying per time used, resources, bandwidth, users, apps, and work performed.

#hosting #pricing #cloud
Wes BosScott Tolinski
311

Hasty × December 21st, 2020

Hasty Treat - How Would We Script a PS5 Buying Bot?

Wes and Scott discuss bot strategies for buying popular, hard to find items like the PlayStation 5, including scraping retailer sites, avoiding bot-prone retailers, and using tools like Puppeteer and LowDB.

#Bots #PS5 #Web Scraping
Wes BosScott Tolinski
309

Hasty × December 14th, 2020

Hasty Treat - 300th Episode Tech Chat

Wes and Scott discuss the behind-the-scenes tech used to record Syntax episode 300 with live guest appearances.

#podcasting #live streaming
Wes BosScott Tolinski
307

Hasty × December 7th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Why should I use React Hooks?

Wes and Scott discuss why they prefer React hooks over class components - hooks allow decoupling state from components, reduce duplication, improve ref handling and more.

#react #hooks #javascript
Wes BosScott Tolinski
305

Hasty × November 30th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Writing Good Commit Messages

Wes and Scott discuss using conventional commits to improve commit messages and enable automatic versioning.

#git #versioning
Wes BosScott Tolinski
303

Hasty × November 23rd, 2020

Hasty Treat - Client vs Server Data Validation

Discussion on validating data on the client vs the server, with examples of manipulating client validation and the importance of server-side validation for security.

#Security #Validation #Client #Server
Wes BosScott Tolinski
301

Hasty × November 16th, 2020

Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Masonry (Grid Level 3)

This episode covers CSS Grid Level 3, which adds masonry layout capabilities natively to CSS. This allows Pinterest-style responsive layouts without JavaScript.

#css #grid #layout
Wes BosScott Tolinski
299

Hasty × November 9th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Bundlers in 2020

Discussion on the most popular JavaScript bundlers available today and their key differences in features, complexity and use cases.

#webpack #rollup #parcel #snowpack
Wes BosScott Tolinski
297

Hasty × November 2nd, 2020

Hasty Treat - Certifications? Government Specified JavaScript Skills?

Wes and Scott discuss the value of certifications versus hands-on experience in proving competence as a web developer. They cover how the fast pace of change in web technologies makes certifications difficult, but agree certifications around specific vendor platforms may be useful.

#Certifications
Wes BosScott Tolinski
295

Hasty × October 26th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript

Discussion on the new Temporal date and time API proposal for JavaScript which aims to fix limitations with the existing JavaScript date API

#javascript #date #api
Wes BosScott Tolinski
293

Hasty × October 19th, 2020

Hasty Treat - Stretching For Developers with Scott

Scott discusses various dynamic stretches to help alleviate common issues that developers face from poor posture and overuse, such as back pain, carpal tunnel, rounded shoulders, etc.

#coding #webdev #tips #stretches
Wes BosScott Tolinski
292

Hasty × October 12th, 2020

How to Make Freelancing Easier

Tips on communication, time management, billing and other ways to make freelancing an easier endeavor.

#Freelancing #Communication
Wes BosScott Tolinski
289

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
249

Hasty × May 18th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
247

Hasty × May 11th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
245

Hasty × May 4th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
243

Hasty × April 27th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
241

Hasty × April 20th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
239

Hasty × April 13th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
237

Hasty × April 6th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
235

Hasty × March 30th, 2020

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
Wes BosScott Tolinski
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