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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Apr 22
How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale
SPONSORED BY INTUITChase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about what might be the hardest problem in engineering right now: getting multiple AI agents to work together in a complex system. They d ... Show More
27m 52s
Apr 21
We still need developer communities
Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into programming; MHL’s recent acquisition of DEV and how they’re creating a place for shared knowledge, build ... Show More
30m 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