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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
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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
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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
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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
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How to Make Freelancing Easier
Tips on communication, time management, billing and other ways to make freelancing an easier endeavor.
#Freelancing #Communication
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hasty Treat - Backyard Offices
Wes talks about converting a shed in his backyard into a home office during the pandemic
#office #backyard #conversion
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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
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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
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Hasty Treat - Gatsby Tips
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss tips for improving Gatsby websites, including layouts, animations, build optimization, and more.
#Gatsby #React
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Hasty Treat - The Power of Hobbies
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about hobbies — how they can improve your life and make you a better developer, as well as the hobbies they enjoy.