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CJ shows off the custom Sega Genesis game he built for Sentry Hack Week, running on real hardware off an Everdrive. Learn how SGDK, Tiled, custom Java extensions, and a vibe-coded palette tool make 1989 hardware surprisingly approachable.
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Scott deep dives into his Sentry Hack Week project, SynHacks, a competitive CSS battle platform where you code in your own editor while the audience watches and votes in real time. Learn how Zero Sync, Drizzle, SvelteKit, and the File System API made this a full app in a single week.
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Scott, Wes, and CJ recap Sentry's Hack Week, where they built a Sega Genesis game in C, a web-controlled LED grid, and a competitive UI coding platform. Hear what worked, what broke, and how AI helped (or didn't).
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Wes and Scott break down why vibe-coded apps are about to spawn a wave of security disasters, from client-side auth checks to the Tea app's wide-open Firebase bucket. Plus practical tips for access control, and sick picks of hotel scents and a book about colonizing Mars.
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Scott, a recovering non-planner, and Wes break down how to start a new project without regrets, from pseudocode outlines and data structures to picking the right tech and wrangling AI steering docs. Also, a surprising amount of talk about charging cables and grocery shopping.
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Potluck time! Wes and Scott tackle editor shortcut chaos, whether WASM kills Docker, how to ask for that senior title, and if LLMs have turned the web into one giant React blob.
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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.
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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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Superhuman's head of engineering explains how they make email feel impossibly fast with local-first data, bespoke React UI, and a 100ms rule for every interaction. Plus AI drafts, keyboard shortcuts, and why dark mode is still a sore spot.
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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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Potluck time! Scott and Wes tackle maintaining a popular NPM package, what to learn after a layoff, imposter syndrome, reverse proxies, and why Scott's lighting suddenly looks so good. Plus a cardboard cutter, kitchen scissors, and Gridfinity obsession.
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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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Wes and Scott break down the freshest TC39 proposals heading to JavaScript, from deferred imports to a full random toolkit and a long-overdue clamp. Plus, Hulu rants, struggling backwards, and a charger with a screen.
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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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Payload CMS founder James Mikrut drops the news that Figma just bought Payload, and explains what it means for open source, AI-generated apps, and closing the gap between design and code. Spoiler: Payload stays free, and the CMS gets a whole lot more ambitious.
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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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CSS now has real if statements, and Scott and Wes break down how they work, where they beat classes and JavaScript, and why your theming system might never be the same. Grab Chrome and follow along with the CodePen demos.
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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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Jeppe Reinhold from the Storybook team shows how Storybook shed its bloat, embraced Vite, and became a legit component testing powerhouse with Vitest, visual tests and a11y checks. Even the skeptics might come around.
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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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Dan Levine of Exceel... er, Excel, backer of Vercel, Sentry, Mux and Scale AI, breaks down how to actually raise money, what VCs look for, and whether the AI boom is a bubble. Grab some dandelion chocolate and take notes.
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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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In this episode, Wes and CJ discuss the Windsurf acquisition by OpenAI, the future of UI design, securing forms, using JSON for data, comparing React and Svelte, workflows for testing responsive design, and avoiding layout shifts with progressive enhancement.
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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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Peter Pistorius discusses Redwood SDK, a new React framework he created that runs on Cloudflare and focuses on performance, realtime capabilities, and simplicity.
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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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Scott and Wes discuss 13 new CSS features you can start using today in your projects
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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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Wes got a 3D printer and talks about how it works, use cases, places to get models, filament types, storage, modeling software and more.
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Tips and tricks to make web apps feel faster through perceived speed improvements
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Wes and Scott answer developer questions sent in by listeners covering topics like AI, React, legacy code, app ideas, web development trends, and more.