OCT 27TH 5-7PM
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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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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 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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Scott gushes about Better Auth, the open source TypeScript auth library with plugins for passkeys, 2FA, admin impersonation, rate limiting, and even Stripe. Plus a tour of the auth landscape and why Scott is ditching his hand-rolled auth.
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Scott and Wes shake out the AI tools actually worth your time, from node-based agent builders to voice dictation and a browser that might replace ChatGPT. Plus, Arc refugees, ComfyUI weirdness, and a very good hat segment.
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Scott and Wes dig into the new wave of long-running background agents and CLI coding tools like Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code, and ask whether a $200 a month plan is genius or madness. Plus, sick picks include a $50 corporate projector and a smart ring.
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Safari finally shows up to the party with WebGPU and a pile of CSS goodies, Remix breaks up with React, and TypeScript and Vite go Go and Rust for absurd speedups. Wes and CJ break down a two-week firehose of web dev news.
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Scott and Wes tour the 2025 browser landscape, from Chromium skins and the death of Arc to Firefox's struggles, Safari's quirks, and the Ladybird engine. Plus real usage stats, dev tools rankings, and why Opera Air wants you to do neck exercises.
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Wes and Scott break down how to throw, catch, rethrow, and display errors on the client and server without leaking secrets or losing your mind. Plus: stack traces, Sentry, TypeScript's unknown errors, and a trip to urgent care.
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Wes breaks down migrating his 600-page personal site from Gatsby to Waku with React Server Components, hosted on Cloudflare for about six bucks a month. Plus Scott's Svelte Southwest talk and a very fancy restaurant that hid him behind plants.
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Overview of the Nuxt meta-framework, its capabilities, and why CJ enjoys using it to build full-stack Vue applications.
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Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel from the VS Code team announce open sourcing AI features from GitHub Copilot into core VS Code.
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Discussion of new JavaScript APIs and framework updates including React animations, Svelte asynchronous components, React Server Components in Parcel, RedwoodJS pivot, and Storybook 9 updates.
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Cassie Evans from GreenSock explains what GSAP is, why developers use it for animation, how it works, techniques for smooth performant animations, and new developments like GSAP becoming free and open source.
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Tips and tricks to make web apps feel faster through perceived speed improvements
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Discussion on status of React server components 5 years after introduction - only fully supported in Next.js and Waku currently, with partial support in other frameworks.
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This episode discusses the Machine Context Protocol (MCP), which is a standardized protocol that allows large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to communicate with and control other applications and services. They talk about what MCP is, why it's useful, some examples of MCP servers, and how you can build your own MCP tools.
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Discussion on adding light and dark modes to sites, considerations when doing so, and new CSS features to help
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Wes and Scott discuss planning decisions for the Syntax v3 site rebuild including project management, code structure, tooling strategies, UI patterns, and more.
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Discussion about AI assisted coding called vibe coding, where inexperienced developers quickly build apps by repeatedly prompting and tweaking code without closely reviewing it.