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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

By: Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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Summary
 Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling. Politics & Government
Episodes
  • 1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?

    1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?
    11 Nov 2026
    Scott and Wes sit down with GitHub’s Kyle Daigle to ask what the hell is going on with GitHub: the downtime, the agent traffic spike, and the infrastructure overhaul decoupling storage from compute. Plus Copilot Fusion’s cascade and critique modes, npm supply chain security, and whether pull requests are dead. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:07 What the Hell Is Going On with GitHub? 01:42 GitHub’s Growth by the Numbers: Billions of Commits a Month 03:36 Brought to you by Sentry! 04:00 GitHub’s Huge Infrastructure Update: Decoupling Storage from Compute 06:41 Moving to Azure and the Busy Monorepo Problem 09:00 Is CI the New Bottleneck? Rethinking Testing for Agents 11:01 Are Pull Requests Dead? Contributing Tokens Instead of Homework 13:16 GitHub Copilot App: Will We Ever Get Sign In with ChatGPT? 14:51 Is Copilot Fusion Just a Model Router? Cascade and Critique Modes 17:30 Can You Use Copilot Fusion in Other Harnesses? 18:31 What’s Going On with npm? Supply Chain Security 20:30 Do We Even Need Dependencies, or Should We Vibe Code Our Own? 22:13 Is npm Still a Focus for GitHub? 23:29 Audience Questions: Novel Code Storage Architectures and the Future of Git 26:05 Making Git Easier for Shipping with Agents 27:54 It’s About the People: Celebrating Open Source at Universe 29:52 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Kyle: Studio Roem notebook Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads
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    31 min
  • 1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors

    1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors
    9 Nov 2026
    Wes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex dictation app, Mitchell Hashimoto's Rex terminal, TanStack Redact, Cloudflare's TypeScript port to Rust, Vercel's Agent Desktop, the new touchscreen MacBook Pros, a flood of CVEs, and a certificate authority whose private key was the number 4. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:11 Anomaly’s Hex Dictation App 05:00 The Battle to Own Your Computer 07:45 Raycast’s iOS Keyboard 10:11 The New AI Design Meta 11:05 Rex: A Next Gen Terminal 17:37 Rex Remote Hosts and Scripting 22:55 Reddit Is Closing Its Doors 28:46 Bots and Captchas 33:29 r/opensource Bans AI 37:41 CSS-Tricks Has a New Owner 41:08 Brought to you by Sentry! 41:34 Silent Dictation Glasses Silent dictation with Airpods Silent dictation on Mac 45:49 Arc Is Dead 49:42 Pico CSS Is Unmaintained 50:49 TanStack Redact 52:37 tsrs: TypeScript in Rust 55:34 Vercel’s Agent Desktop Launch post Cua 59:26 Agents in a macOS VM 01:00:38 Claude Is Back in OpenCode 01:01:41 Touchscreen MacBook Pros 01:11:21 Discord Goes Discoverable AnswerOverflow 01:13:31 Notification Overload 01:14:50 Security Roundup 01:15:33 What Is a CVE? Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure CVE Tracker 01:18:01 PHP, Linux and GitLab CVEs 01:22:18 Abliterated Models 01:23:38 eMudhra’s Private Key Was 4 eMudhra’s CA keys cracked in milliseconds mitmproxy 01:31:09 Apple Music’s iPod 404 Page 01:33:18 Norway’s Best Toilets Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads
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    1 hr and 36 min
  • 1053: What’s in Our Home Lab

    1053: What’s in Our Home Lab
    4 Nov 2026
    Scott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs. DIY ZFS storage, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Immich, Kiwix, and coding over the network with T3 Code and OpenCode. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:56 What’s in Our Homelabs? Servers, Pis and Workhorse Machines TEROW 4 Port 2.5G PoE Switch Proxmox 03:54 Proxmox Explained: A Hypervisor OS for Your Home Lab 05:49 Scott’s Fully 3D Printed Server Rack and Mac Studio Synology DS918+ 11:19 Keeping It Quiet: Server Fans and Noisy NAS Drives 12:58 Networking: Building a Custom OPNsense Firewall oaknode Firewall Appliance 15:08 Load Balancing Two ISPs With SFP+ Fiber AUMOX 10 Port 2.5G Switch 20:07 Wi-Fi Access Points and VLAN Network Segmentation Omada AX5400 WiFi Access Point 21:40 Scott’s Switch and Eero Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Setup UGREEN USB to 2.5G Ethernet Adapter Eero Max 7 25:55 Ditching the ISP Router: PPPoE and Bridge Mode 27:51 Accessing Your Services Remotely With Tailscale 31:08 Local Domains and TLS Certificates With Caddy and Cloudflare 34:37 NAS and Storage: Synology vs. a DIY Setup 38:59 Hot and Cold Storage: Hardware RAID, ZFS and Cockpit Cockpit 45:20 Container Management With OrbStack, Proxmox and Portainer Portainer 47:52 Termix: SSH Into Your Servers From the Browser 48:50 Home Automation With Home Assistant and Apollo Automation Apollo AIR-1 51:02 Flashing Wyze Cams With Thingino for Frigate 52:30 Cloud-Free Smart Devices: ESPHome, Tasmota and Bluetooth Proxies 57:07 Self-Hosted Media: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and Immich Seerr 01:02:37 RSS, Read Later and YouTube Archiving With Tube Archivist Miniflux Wallabag 01:04:01 Offline Internet: Wikipedia and Stack Overflow With Kiwix Zim Library Manager 01:05:46 Paperless-ngx for Device Manuals and Documents Paperless NGX 01:07:44 AI Coding Agents: Scott’s Pi Durable Personal Agent 01:09:46 Coding Over the Network With T3 Code and Zed Remote 01:15:39 CJ’s OpenCode, Open WebUI and code-server Setup 01:20:02 What’s in Your Homelab? Roast Our Setups Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads
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    1 hr and 21 min
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