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ISSUE #9:

In this issue of the Syntax Snack Pack we're serving up a whole new section: Tasters - where we're dropping the titles, topics, and guests for next week's episodes. Only you folks, here in the newsletter, get this info.

Plus the usual - Including hot take, 'There are no programmers in 5 years?'. A throwback to a seminal 2000s web product. Are we all shifting to server-rendered React in 2024?

Dig in 🍽️

🍬 Dungeons & Directories

Dungeons and Directories is an open-source short-text adventure game that you play in your file browser.

🍬 Mobbin UI Inspiration

Research common UI / UX patterns.

🍬 Pipe Dreams

Visual + written retrospective of a seminal 2000s web product: Yahoo! Pipes.

🍬 CSS :has() landed in Firefox! That makes 100% Browser support

Stay tuned for an upcoming Syntax episode detailing each of these new CSS selector approaches in depth.

TASTERS

a sneak peek of next week's episodes

Monday, Dec 25:

How We Made Syntax.fm Faster

Scott and Wes discuss various performance issues encountered while rebuilding the Syntax site, including slow database queries, unnecessary data loading, and Open Graph image generation. They share the optimizations and tools used to diagnose bottlenecks and make improvements.

Wednesday, Dec 27:

Potluck × Naming Tech × Generators × Layers Follow Up × Sick Picks Page

In this holiday potluck episode, Scott and Wes answer developer questions around topics like advanced JavaScript techniques, React, CSS layers, designing databases, and specializing as a front-end engineer.Friday, Dec 29:

Friday, Dec 29:

A Passwordless Future Passkeys with Anna Poblets

Discussion on passkeys, a new way to login that is passwordless and phishing resistant while also improving usability. Covers what they are, how they work, benefits over passwords, and timeline for adoption.

🔥 There are no programmers in 5 years?

@kitze says we should make the best of our time left, like editing our vim settings.

🔥 “We want a rich user interaction layer that can minimize compromises.”

A fantastic thread and some great insights from Sentry founder & CTO about Server Rendered vs SPA Apps. Anticipating a big shift to server-rendered React in 2024, and we'll hear a lot of talk about it as developers consider if they want to move their apps to the server.

🔥 CSS in JS Objects?

Stylex is a newly open-sourced library from Facebook and Scott isn't down with writing CSS as JS objects.

🔥 E2E tests are underrated

@acdlite argues we should all be writing more end-to-end tests

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