In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about everything coming in React 18!
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958: 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
The Syntax team brings us their annual Holiday Gift Guide! They’ve curated the best gadgets, tools, food, and even kitchen essentials for the dev in your life — plus a few treats anyone would love to unwrap.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax
00:54 Our Favorite Things
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1h 5m
Nov 24
957: CSS: Advanced and Obscure
Scott and Wes face off in a CSS-themed round of STUMP’d, quizzing each other on shape functions, scroll snap types, obscure functions, and long-forgotten spec history. From ray() to cross-fade() to print-color quirks, this episode is packed with rapid-fire frontend trivia guarant ... Show More
37m 50s
Nov 19
956: Should I Keep Using WordPress?
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer your questions about paid vs. free SSL, the state of frontend jobs, headless WordPress trade-offs, organizing TypeScript types, and more!
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:51 Recapping the GitHub Meetup
05:14 Is the ... Show More
50m 10s
Apr 2022
The new version of React, great tools for learning CSS, and the double standard for female engineers
<p><a href="https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/29/react-v18.html" target="_blank">React 18</a> is the latest major version of React. Cassidy also provides an excellent summary of React history.</p><p>Ceora is working on some CSS art (inspired by K-pop, natch) using <a href="https:/ ... Show More
38m 3s
Nov 2021
Sophie is the bomb diggity (JS Party #202)
This week we are joined by Sophie Alpert, Head of Engineering at Humu, and former lead of the React Core team, to discuss her experience on being a very early adopter, contributor, and eventually maintainer of React. In her 4+ years on the Core team, she went from supporting a ne ... Show More
1h 7m
Mar 2022
Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs (JS Party #216)
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.
Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and m ... Show More
1h 13m
Feb 2024
E167: Nvidia smashes earnings (again), Google's Woke AI disaster, Groq's LPU breakthrough & more
(0:00) Bestie intros: Banana boat! (2:34) Nvidia smashes expectations again: understanding its terminal value and bull/bear cases in the context of the history of the internet (27:26) Groq's big week, training vs. inference, LPUs vs. GPUs, how to succeed in deep tech (49:37) Goog ... Show More
1h 20m