The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.
You can find out more about Vercel, which recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future.
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Yesterday
Developers are emotionally attached to their tools
Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the relevance of traditional tools, muscle memory, the risks of hype; and how to adapt workflows for AI-driven d ... Show More
34m 8s
Jun 11
When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?
On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.Eric explains how Intuit rolled out Claude Code a ... Show More
33m 41s
Jun 9
Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database
Ryan welcomes Bryan Clark, director of product for Lakebase at Databricks, to discuss what happens when AI agents become the primary creators and users of databases; why agents are “sloppy” about cleaning up infrastructure; and how database branching, scale-to-zero, and centraliz ... Show More
35m 23s
Dec 2023
704: Stump'd JS + CSS Interview Questions
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with JavaScript and CSS interview style questions including CSS contain, naming the 7 parts of Houdini, what ARIA stands for, 5 limitations of serverless, and more.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
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57m 41s
Nov 2021
Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Tomek Sulkowski about web containers, StackBlitz and more!
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55m 44s
Jun 2020
WebRTC and Peer-to-Peer Video Calling with Ian Ramzy
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Ian Ramzy about ZipCall.io — how he built it, why, and some of the surprising choices he made along the way.
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54m 36s
Mar 2022
Hasty Treat WTF × SSR vs JamStack vs Serverless?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between SSR, JamStack, and Serverless.
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24m 27s
Feb 2020
Are Web Dev GUIs Going to Replace Us?
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about web dev GUIs — what are they, are they going to replace developers, are they good or bad, and more!
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52m 23s