OCT 27TH 5-7PM
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Potluck time! Wes and Scott tackle Cloudflare's AI crawler blocking, supporting local-first apps, whether a vibe-coded product belongs in your portfolio, and how to keep kids' screen time from turning into brain rot.
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Scott and Wes dig through the State of Devs 2025 survey covering salaries, layoffs, remote work, phones, health, hobbies, and the questionable music taste of web developers. Plus Scott's concussion recovery update and a surprising amount of Jira suffering.
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Wes and Scott catch up on summer's web dev news: Amazon's Kiro editor, Node running TypeScript, Rolldown-Vite's 100x builds, async Svelte with remote functions, and Perplexity's Comet browser that actually does stuff for you. Plus a tsunami scare in Maui and a file server that runs on literally everything.
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CJ breaks down how RSS actually works and how he built a self-hosted feed setup with MiniFlux, Capy Reader, ReadKit and Wallabag so he can escape ads, comment sections and Reddit rage. Plus, where to find feeds for news sites, Hacker News, subreddits and even your Bluesky follows.
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Scott and CJ trade their favorite productivity apps, from voice dictation and Amazon's spec-driven Kiro IDE to terminals, notes, to-dos, email, and a very fancy dumb phone. Spoiler: one of them keeps everything in unsaved Sublime Text tabs and the other gets swooned by rounded corners.
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Scott and Wes tour the wild landscape of local-first sync engines, from Zero and LiveStore to InstantDB, Convex, Electric SQL and more. Find out which one fits your stack, and why your app might soon feel instant.
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Wes and Scott share practical tips for getting better code out of AI, from scaffolding projects yourself to writing rules files, using Context7, and knowing when to ditch a looping chat. Plus a sweaty debate about air conditioning.
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Wes and Scott tackle your potluck questions on requestAnimationFrame, code review tips, the new CSS attr() function, AI eating the web, full stack pressure, pre-commit hooks, and migrating a gnarly PHP app. Plus air dusters and competition kettlebells because of course.
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Wes and Scott map out every way to code with AI, from ghost text to Claude Code, then walk through the building blocks of AI apps like streaming, embeddings, RAG, and MCP. Newbies and skeptics welcome, and bring your scratch folder.
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Wes breaks down the Model Context Protocol, from tool calling vs MCP to remote servers, OAuth, resources, and prompts, after his AI currency calculator kept hallucinating math. Plus jackhammers, Mario Kart, and a very cursed Wii mod.