In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the secret sauce that’s going into the creation of the new Syntax.fm website including the styling, search, tooling, database, hosting, and more.
Show Notes 00:21:15 Welcome
01:10:11 Where did the name “Secret Sauce” come from?
03:16:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
04:32:11 What Syntax.fm is built in?
SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
muxinc/media-chrome: Custom elements (web components) for making audio and video player controls that look great in your website or app.
Media Chrome Docs
07:24:01 How we’re doing search
flexsearch - npm
12:22:20 Styling
Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
PostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
16:00:05 Tooling
Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
18:55:11 Database
Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
21:11:11 Services
Deepgram
OpenAI
Anthropic \ Introducing Claude
24:34:11 Hosting
Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams
PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale
Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare
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