Syntax Snack Pack - Issue #4

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A delectable serving of tasty clicks, hot takes, nuggets, and other juicy treats!

ISSUE #4:

In the fourth issue of Syntax Snack Pack, Scott and Wes share some sick links to things like a proposal for Regex escaping strings and a tool called Pandoc. They also serve up a hot take about the art of rounded corners in CSS, a bunch of new episodes, nuggets, and more.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the meetup last night in Toronto! We had an amazing time hanging with you all.

Cloudflare Rolls out a Vector Database: AI embeddings essentially convert text to a series of numbers - this can be really handy for finding similar items - such as similar podcasts based on the words spoken. When you want to query embeddings, you need a vector database - and Cloudflare just rolled one out!A proposal for Regex escaping strings: If you are sick of escaping characters like ? and . in your regexes, this will be a handy feature added to JS. It’s currently in Stage 2, which means it’s pretty far along, and they are awaiting browser implementation and further user feedback. If you are the type to complain about APIs after they have shipped - now is your time to speak up! Pandoc – universal document converter: A useful command line utility to convert documents between formats, like PDF to Markdown (including GitHub-flavored Markdown) and many other document formats

🔥 The Art of Rounded Corners in CSS

@diegohaz insists to opt for simple rounded corners in CSS instead of obsessively calculating precise radii.

🔥 The Future of Browsers?

@LashaKrikheli predicts that browsers will include framework-level functionality out of the box.

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