In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a 2019 year in review — the most popular Syntax episodes, what they learned, some personal updates, plans for next year, and more!
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Show Notes 1:40 - Plans for 2020
Syntax Live March 2019
Plans for 2020
Twitter has done really well for @syntaxfm
Community feels great
9:20 - Top 10 Syntax episodes of 2019
Syntax162: The Fundamentals - JS
Syntax120: Gatsby vs Next
Syntax158: The Fundamentals - HTML + CSS
Syntax126: Bootcamps vs School vs Self-Learning
Syntax138: What’s New in Web Development
Syntax130: The VueJS Show (Scott teaches Wes)
Syntax146: CSS the Cool Parts
Syntax174: How to Build an API
Syntax154: SVGs with Sara Soueidan
Syntax106: A Look Forward to 2019
25:17 - Personal stuff
Scott
Brooklyn Tolinksi
2019 was really tough for me
Level Up courses for 12 months
Huge changes to my production values and office
Huge changes to LUT codebase (React hooks, Typescript, Next.js, Mongoose)
Wes
New Baby in June / 3 months Paternity Leave
Bought a cottage
Hardest course to make was Beginner JS — it was a slog, hard to stay motivated at times, with 80 hours of recording alone
Course Platform re-write (Next.js)
39:17 - Stuff we learned
Scott
Better speaker
Lots of TypeScript
Better debugging
Hooks
Svelte
General improvement in JS writing and programming skills
Wes
Really good at Vanilla.js DOM API
React Hooks
Suspense
Audio Visualization
Shape Detection API - Faces, Barcodes, Text
Headless CMS: Prismic, Sanity, WordPress GraphQL, Keystone.js, Hasura
Very good understanding of the nitty gritty of JS (closures, objects, this, new keyword, classes, etc.)
Links Reactathon
freeCodeCamp Podcast
CSS Houdini
Syntax109: Hasty Treat - CSS Grid Level 2 aka Subgrid
Syntax092: React Hooks
Dev Mugs
TypeScript
Svelte
Prismic
Sanity
WPGraphQL
Keystone.js
Hasura
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