Supper Club
Brandon Roberts discusses AppRight, an open source self-hosted backend for web and mobile apps. It provides database, auth, storage, functions and more out of the box.
Tasty
In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss the differences between public and private schools in Denver and the challenges of getting kids into preferred schools. They then provide an overview of threads, concurrency and parallelism in programming languages and how JavaScript only has a single thread. They use examples like green screening webcams to demonstrate when you may need to offload work to other threads using web workers.
Hasty
Scott and Wes celebrate 500 episodes by looking back at milestones, favorite moments and episodes, and answering listener questions.
Supper Club
In this episode, Rich Harrison provides an intro to Svelte and discusses its developer experience benefits, templating language, immutability, compilation process, lack of virtual DOM, and more.
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss the pros and cons of different web development jobs like agencies, tech companies, startups and freelancing.
Hasty
In this episode Scott and Wes discuss upcoming CSS proposals like at win/else, masonry layout, caret styling, nesting, env variables, and improvements to media queries.
Supper Club
Josh Larson from Shopify discusses their new Hydrogen framework for building custom headless ecommerce stores using React and Shopify. He covers topics like server side rendering, React Server Components, and deploying the same code to multiple JavaScript environments.
Tasty
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer developer questions on topics like caching slow APIs, generating PDFs from HTML, whether to learn SvelteKit before it hits v1, and more.
Hasty
Overview of major browser engines like Chromium, Gecko, WebKit and dive into lesser known mobile browsers to see if you need to support them.
Supper Club
Lee Robinson from Vercel discusses React Suspense, selective hydration, Next.js, and performance techniques.
Tasty
Scott and Wes discuss frustrations with web development and wish for better defaults and APIs.
Hasty
Wes and Scott discuss ways to spark creativity and excitement in coding through fun side projects that serve no purpose.
Supper Club
Saeed Balkhi discusses growing his company AwesomeMotive from a WordPress tutorial blog into a suite of over 30 web services and software tools.
Tasty
Wes and Scott discuss resolving NPM errors when starting old projects, compatibility across Node versions, and specifying required versions in package.json.
Hasty
This episode covers Bun, a new JavaScript runtime focused on performance and batteries included tools like a bundler and transpiler.
Supper Club
Adam Cowley from Neo4j explains graph databases, how they work, use cases, and how to query data with Cypher. He discusses how Neo4j can be used in web development.
Tasty
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott discuss their coding styles and preferences in JavaScript and CSS.
Hasty
Wes and Scott play a game of Stumped, asking each other random interview questions and trying to explain the answers.
Supper Club
Christy Perreault from Liberty Mutual discusses how they leverage serverless to support 5000 developers building customer-facing and internal apps. She covers Liberty Mutual's journey from on-prem to serverless, the costs savings and auto-scaling benefits, supporting developer preferences, and local development recommendations.
Tasty
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott discuss NAS networking, Home Assistant, peer dependencies in npm, and transpilation when using Vite and Vitest.
Hasty
Scott explains numeric clamping and interpolation, demonstrating how these techniques can help control values and create animations. He highlights the d3-interpolate library for interpolating numbers, colors, dates, and more.
Supper Club
Pokey Rule discusses coding by voice with Talon instead of keyboard due to RSI, creating grammars to map voice commands to actions, and demonstrates voice coding.
Tasty
Wes and Scott discuss their experiences with conference speaking over the past 10 years, including the benefits like gaining legitimacy, improving public speaking skills, making connections, and traveling.
Hasty
In this episode, Wes and Scott discuss upcoming CSS color functions that will allow developers to programmatically modify colors, including mixing colors, getting color contrasts, and altering color properties like hue, saturation, and lightness.
Supper Club
In this SX dinner club episode, Sean Wang aka Swyx discusses developer experience (DX) - what it is, why it matters, how tools like React and Svelte compare, and how DevRel roles are evolving.
Tasty
Communication tips for email, meetings, code reviews, spanning topics like numbering questions, bolding important parts, using paragraphs, and recognizing when you're asking a lot.
Hasty
Discussion of a new browser API proposal for smooth page transitions on the web, allowing for animated transitions between pages similar to native mobile apps.
Supper Club
Discussion with Tim Leland who has built several successful browser extensions like a weather extension using Dark Sky and a URL shortener called t.ly. He talks about how he builds and monetizes the extensions.
Tasty
An overview of home automation protocols, software options like Homebridge, how it leads to family buy-in, and the ways automation can improve upon analog problems.
Hasty
Wes and Scott discuss new viewport units in CSS that help deal with things like the URL bar shifting on mobile browsers.
Supper Club
Discussion with Eduardo Bocas from Netlify about edge functions, Deno, serverless, and more.
Tasty
Wes and Scott answer listener questions on topics like hosting databases, learning new programming languages, fitness goals, CSS environment variables, and more.
Hasty
Wes and Scott discuss new CSS selectors like has(), where() and is() that allow powerful new ways to select elements.
Supper Club
Connor Finlayson discusses the no code movement, whether it will replace developers, popular no code tools like Webflow and Airtable, resources for learning, and advice for beginners.
Tasty
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski host a live podcast episode from Reactathon, featuring debates, old code, syntax errors, JS or NAS, and audience Q&A.
Hasty
Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski discuss ways that malicious actors can abuse your web application, and different techniques to prevent abuse like rate limiting, shadow banning, tokens, CAPTCHA, and more.
Supper Club
Wes and Scott talk with Anselm Hannemann about how he transitioned from web developer to gardener to avoid burnout, the joys of growing your own food, and tips for avoiding burnout in the tech industry.
Tasty
Wes and Scott discuss using Git version control in VS Code, including built-in features and extensions that enhance the developer workflow.
Hasty
Discussion on how cache control headers work and how they can be used to improve website performance.
Supper Club
Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, discusses his work on RedwoodJS, an opinionated fullstack JS framework to help developers build and scale web apps faster.
