Scott and Wes continue to share hair-raising developer horror stories submitted by listeners. From accidentally severing access to crucial databases to a limitless coupon code that cost millions, these tales will have you on the edge of your seat. Tune in for more wild mishaps, close calls, and hard-learned lessons from the dark side of coding. You won’t wan ... Show More
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
Nov 17
955: SvelteKit has solved data loading
Scott and Wes break down SvelteKit’s new remote functions and why they finally solve the long-standing pain of page-level data in Svelte. They cover queries, forms, batching, caching, and all the clever RPC ergonomics that make Svelte’s approach feel surprisingly powerful and ref ... Show More
36m 16s
Oct 2024
#67 - The Scariest Stories From The Internet
<p>Amanda and Shayne reading Creepypastas makes its return! This episode contains fictional stories with depictions of animal cruelty, violence, suicide, and death which may be triggering or upsetting to some audiences. To get your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just 15 bu ... Show More
59m 29s
Aug 14
Live from Big Sky Dev Con: Code Debates, Content Insights, and What's Next for Web Development
Live from Big Sky Dev Con, Robbie is joined by Aaron Francis, Ken Wheeler, and Typecraft to discuss HTML and CSS programming status, React’s future, app security failures, NPM’s weak spots, content creation hooks, survival tech fantasies, and balancing big tech ambitions with fam ... Show More
50m 55s
Oct 21
🏴☠️ “The Day the Internet Broke” — AWS’ outage. Canyon Ranch’s menopause resort. TiVo’s last day. +FBI’s art crime team
<p>Canyon Ranch is opening a $500M hotel in Austin, but for just 1 customer… Women.</p><p>The internet broke yesterday because of Amazon Web Services… It’s too connected to fail. </p><p>TiVo, the TV pioneer, just sold its last TiVo… It’s a case study in “moats vs islands.”</ ... Show More
22m 22s