Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes and Scott answer your questions about whether Git GUIs beat the terminal, balancing accessibility with experimental web projects, blocking malicious traffic, smart home setups, why Anthropic bought Bun, navigating tricky team dynamics, and more!

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:51 Why did Anthropic buy Bun?

07:33 Should you use Git GUIs or the terminal?

lazygit

12:54 How to make better coding videos

v_framer

Recut

DaVinci Resolve

Shure MV7+

20:31 How do you handle a difficult dev teammate?

24:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io

24:41 Creative and experimental code vs accessible code

Using luminance instead of lightness

Color contrast checker

Auto color

31:51 Smart home setups we actually use

35:37 How do you block bad bots and ISPs?

Bad ASN list

38:02 What is SAP UI and why is it everywhere?

SAP UI5 Demo Kit

41:28 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Scott: Inside Archaeology

Wes: ProfessorBoots

Shameless Plugs

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Scott and Wes sit down with Dimitri Mitropoulos to explore the wild edges of TypeScript—from running Doom in the type system to building tools like Typeslayer. They dig into Turing-complete types, performance limits, and what the future might hold for TypeScript and programming languages as a whole.

Show Notes


00:00 Welcome to Syntax!


00:27 Dimitri Mitropoulos Introduction


01:29 What is Doom in TypeScript?


03:10 TypeScript Types and Turing Completeness


04:06 Project Overview and Challenges


04:57 ASCII Art and Visual Representation


06:50 Performance Issues with TypeScript


09:27 Brought to you by Sentry.io


09:51 Typeslayer Tool Introduction


16:19 Building in Tauri


20:54 Challenges around packaging


24:03 Future of TypeScript and AI


27:40 Is the Go-based compiler significantly faster?

TSperf


30:23 Should there be something to follow Typescript?


36:27 Staying up to date with WASM.


37:08 SquiggleConf Overview


38:26 Hosting a conference


40:45 What are your thoughts on Zig?


45:07 Vibe coding as an end goal


50:01 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Dimitri: pullfrog

Shameless Plugs

Dimitri: Michigan TypeScript on YouTube

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Wes and Scott talk about setting realistic goals for the new year, building habits through small, sustainable changes, creating systems that actually stick, and why incremental progress beats big resolutions every time.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:26 Wes: Stand more

06:55 Wes: Learn to wake up early

10:04 Scott: Embrace daily TODOs

Tweek

14:18 Brought to you by Sentry.io

14:43 Wes: Better email management

19:14 Scott: Become more minimal

22:13 Wes: Get faster at typing

26:55 Scott: Listen to more self-help books

30:18 Scott: Track long-term habits

31:36 Scott (and Wes): Ship more things

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Wes and Scott talk about their bold predictions for web development in 2026, from WebGPU-powered design and modern CSS breakthroughs to JavaScript standards, AI-driven tooling, security risks, the future of frameworks, workflows, and more!

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:49 WebGPU and 3D experiences will finally take off

Lando Norris

01:30 Web design will make a comeback

Raycast

shaders.com

04:03 Light mode returns (yes, really)

07:06 Modern CSS standards are about to have a huge year

CSS Wrapped

Graffiti

13:15 Will the Temporal API finally ship everywhere in 2026?

14:18 The rise of the standard stack

16:18 Are we headed toward standardized RPC?

19:41 What’s next (and what’s not) for React

21:07 Why we’ll see more security failures in web dev

22:35 SvelteKit 3 lands in 2026

22:53 Where developer tooling is headed next

Oxc

Biome

26:44 More big acquisitions

Anthropic

Bun

28:02 2026: the year of durable compute

30:57 Frameworks will matter less as AI gets better

33:34 End-to-end AI workflows become the norm

36:04 Brought to you by Sentry.io

37:21 Personalized software for everyday people

39:11 MCP and MCP UI will pop

42:24 Developer skills will fall off

46:20 Crappy software will continue

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Wes and Scott revisit their 2025 web development predictions, grading hits and misses across AI, browsers, frameworks, CSS, and tooling. From Temporal and AI coding agents to React, Vite, and vanilla CSS, they reflect on what actually changed, what stalled, and what it all means heading into 2026.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

866: 2025 Web Development Predictions

01:26 Temporal API will ship in the browser

03:33 On-device AI becomes common

06:14 WebGPU unlocks fast local machine learning

TypeGPU

07:10 Models will plateau

10:32 Is there an actual use case for video and photo gen AI?

13:27 Text to UI tools get really good

16:25 Framework choice will matter less

18:53 Web components in Standard Stack, Web Awesome takes off

21:37 AI browsers and Copilot Workspace-style tools will become normal

22:56 AI browsera will become inevitable, OpenAI will launch a browser

27:51 Relative color will feel fully “safe to use”

29:02 Vanilla CSS will make a comeback

30:33 Brought to you by Sentry.io

30:58 CSS mixins and functions spec solidifies

CSS Custom Functions and Mixins Module Level 1

33:25 Container style queries will ship everywhere

CSS if statements

35:40 Vertical centering jokes will stubbornly persist

36:20 VS Code will reach feature parity with Cursor

38:47 More VS Code forks will appear

39:46 React Compiler drops Babel

40:34 React server components will pop

42:17 Remix re-emerges as something new

43:17 React Native will have its time

44:21 TanStack Start and Tanstack will pop

45:46 SvelteKit gets more granular data loading

46:06 Local first apps will take off

46:43 Bun keeps doing “wild but loved” non-standard features, Bun will launch a platform-as-a-service

48:22 Vite stays king

51:07 Laravel will release a CMS

52:44 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Scott: DARKBEAM Flashlight UV Black Light

Wes: WOOZOO Fan

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