Syntax Podcast Shows

Hasty August 28th, 2023

OG Image Options

Scott and Wes discuss techniques for dynamically generating social media preview images known as open graph or OG images using services like Satori, Cloudinary, and Puppeteer.

#webdev #javascript #ogimage

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Supper Club August 25th, 2023

Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai

Aiden Bai discusses Million.js, a library that makes React rendering up to 70% faster by replacing the virtual DOM diffing process. He shares how it works, use cases, and his motivations for improving web performance.

#React #Performance #Virtual DOM

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Tasty August 23rd, 2023

Rust for JS Devs — Part 2

In part 2 of Rust for JavaScript developers, Scott and Wes dive deeper into Rust's type system, talking about integer types, strings, string slices, arrays, tuples, and other collection types. They also cover defining structs, adding methods, and other fundamentals.

#Rust #JavaScript

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Hasty August 21st, 2023

8 Tricks When Using the Fetch() API

Wes shares 8 tricks for using the JavaScript Fetch API including streaming responses, tracking download progress, and handling errors.

#javascript #webdev #fetch

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Supper Club August 18th, 2023

Supper Club × How Descript Built A Next Gen Video Editor In The Browser With Andrew Lisowski

Andrew Lizowski discusses how video editor Descript is built with web technology like Web Codecs and XState. He covers the AI transcription and voice features, using Radix and Tailwind for components, and reliable end-to-end testing with Playwright.

#JavaScript #React

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Tasty August 16th, 2023

6 or so New Approved and Proposed JavaScript APIs

Overview of 6 new approved and proposed JavaScript APIs in various stages - ranging from shipped to just proposed. Covers Promise resolvers, immutable arrays, array grouping, observable events, import assertions, Map.emplace(), decorators and pattern matching.

#JavaScript #APIs #WebDev

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Hasty August 14th, 2023

JS Fundamentals - Decorators

Scott and Wes discuss JavaScript decorators - what they are, how to use them, their current status, and potential future use cases.

#javascript #webdev #decorators

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Supper Club August 11th, 2023

Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer

Brandon Bayer, creator of Blitz JS, discusses Flight Control which lets you deploy apps on your AWS account with a great developer experience. Covers serverless deployment, preview environments, Docker, build caches, and more.

#AWS #Deployment #Docker