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ISSUE #8:

This issue of the Syntax Snack Pack is stuffed with interesting content, so buckle up (or get your forks out 🍽️?). Facebook's CSS system, the greatest MP3 player ever, what's really happening with "bundle-less" in the browser, commentary on the AI-generated conference speakers.

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In August, we did a show on Facebook’s CSS System, StyleX. At the time we had a single conference talk to go off.

Last night, Facebook fully released StyleX—a Framework-agnostic approach for modular and inline styles. If you have ever viewed source on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads, you’ll notice the output is similar to Tailwind, but the authoring is different.

Pretty interesting! Lots of opinions flying. We will cover it in an upcoming show.

🍬 Webamp.org

It’s the greatest MP3 player ever made but in the browser, open source, and built in TypeScript! Worth having a peek at the source code.

🍬 DrizzleORM

High-performance TypeScript ORM that works w/ most databases.

🍬 Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Awesome inspiration for a typography-based site.

🔥 “Bundle-less” in the browser is straight up loading ESM Javascript Modules in the browser without a build step.

We’re having Brian Leroux on in a few weeks to talk about why he does this.

In the meantime, here are a few recent Tweets about it being a performance dog:

🔥 SPEAKERS THAT DON'T ACTUALLY SPEAK: Big dev conference created AI AI-generated engineers

Then we found out the conf organizer has been running fake coding Instagram accounts with AI-generated women.

Dig deeper in this article.

🔥 Commit messages are useless? Descriptions are better?

Some good chatter about AI writing the descriptions for you as well. What do you think? Tweet us at @syntaxfm

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🛤️ Payload is Rails for JS with TypeScript, React and Drizzle (James Mikrut) ▶️

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🍲 Potluck × TypeScript's Longevity × Canvas-Rendered Apps × Learning Rust × Executing Untrusted JS Code ▶️

Only have a minute?
Delicious nuggets from recent episodes

33:47 - What is DevRel with Salma Alam-Naylor
Developer advocate/Twitch live coder Salma Alam-Naylor answers, 'What do you use to stay up to date with web dev?'

8:12 - Potluck × TypeScript's Longevity × Canvas-Rendered Apps × Learning Rust × Executing Untrusted JS Code
Can canvas-rendered web apps like Flutter match what can be done with native web? Is it really write-once deploy everywhere?

11:22 - Payload is Rails for JS with TypeScript, React and Drizzle (James Mikrut)
Guest James Mikrut answers, 'How does Payload CMS use TypeScript?'

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A Tasty Treats Podcast for Web Developers.

ISSUE #8:

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🍬 Webamp.org​

🍬 DrizzleORM​

🍬 Poor Charlie’s Almanack​

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