In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about all the things that have improved the lives of web developers over the years.
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Jul 29
1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)
Dan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it’s way bigger than just Bluesky, and why Dan calls it one of the most interesting ideas on the internet right now. Show Notes 00 ... Show More
1 h
Jul 27
1024: Open Models Replace Big AI
A huge week for open models: Inkling (the first big US open-weight model since Gemma 4), Qwen 3.8, and Kimi 3 all dropped. Plus Vue 3.6 RC + Vapor Mode, the slow death of Stack Overflow, a decoy font that blinds AI, and the usual grab bag of fun links. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:4 ... Show More
1h 7m
Jul 22
1023: Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive
Running your dev process off your main machine doesn’t have to mean the cloud. Scott and Wes break down how to host projects on a box you can reach from any device, close your laptop mid-build, and keep long-running processes alive. They cover Scott’s stack (Mosh, Caddy, Tailscal ... Show More
48m 46s
May 2024
SSR web components for all
Brian LeRoux joins Jerod to share how the Enhance team are bringing server side rendered web components to everyone. With Enhance WASM, you author components in friendly, standards based syntax and reuse them across multiple languages, frameworks & servers.
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57m 45s
Mar 2022
ONE MORE thing every dev should know (Changelog Interviews #483)
The incomparable Jessica Kerr is back with another grab-bag of amazing topics. We talk about her journey to Honeycomb, devs getting satisfaction from the code they write, why step one for her is "get that new project into production" and step two is observe it, her angst for the ... Show More
1h 14m
Aug 2024
80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News)
The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT's "missing semester" course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access log ... Show More
6m 44s
Mar 2024
13% of the time, Devin works every time (JS Party #317)
Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!
1h 6m
Aug 2021
Making Front-End Development Simpler
<p>Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg, CEO at @vercel) talks about simplifying life for front-end developers, the Next.js JavaScript framework, and the balance between great developers, great teams and great collaboration. </p><p><b>SHOW: 541</b></p><p><b>CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - </b><a hr ... Show More
35m 47s
Sep 2022
Seth Godin is the new Mark Twain (JS Party #242)
Jerod, KBall & Nick "Holla!" at React India, share what we're excited about these days, and then take up a KBall topic that goes off the rails but manages to climb back on them, power through, and end up in a good place.
57m 34s