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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

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The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mitchell Hashimoto drops Superlogical, ~700 AI agents... more

Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the best CSS tool for AI agents.

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Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills... more

Scott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values between units, Promise.allKeyed(), and native camera and microphone elem... more

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Recent Guests

Nathan Sobo
Co-founder and CEO of Zed
Zed
Episode: 1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed
Dominic Gannaway
Creator of Ripple.js and InfernoJS, discussed in segment about Octane and TSRX
Independent/open-source projects
Episode: 1028: Cloudflare Wallets
Dr. Courtney Tolinski
Licensed clinical and school psychologist; PhD
Phases.fm / phases.website
Episode: 1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
Dan Abramov
React contributor, formerly Bluesky/Next.js contributor
Past Bluesky, React team member, now at Vercel/Next.js
Episode: 1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)
Dax Raad
Creator of OpenCode
OpenCode
Episode: 1021: We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about
Jake Archibald
Browser/Web Standards veteran; Mozilla contributor
Mozilla
Episode: 1012: Who Decides What Ships on the Web?
Amadeus De Marzi
Front-end engineer with experience at Discord and a focus on UI/UX for code tooling
Pierre Computer Co.
Episode: 1008: Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0
Jonny Burger
Author of Remotion
Remotion
Episode: 1005: Programatic and Skill based Video Creation with Remotion
Niki Bradner
Editor of the latest hires, contributing to video edits and channel work
Syntax
Episode: 1000: Syntax Episode 1,000!

Hosts

Wes Bos
Host of web development-focused shows; co-host on main series and related formats
Scott Tolinski
Co-host with deep technical knowledge on frontend topics and tooling
CJ Reynolds
Co-host on some formats and discussions

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 3.4k ratings
  • I used to love this show

    This used to be one of my favorite shows. Nowadays it’s mostly a YouTube stream audio export.

    I miss the old Syntax podcast.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    MatiasWasAlreadyTaken
    Spain2 months ago
  • AI all the time now

    I used to listen to this podcast all the time. Now it is just AI AI AI. I would rather listen to paint dry this rubbish

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    noelemdondsbd
    United Kingdom6 months ago
  • I like the guys but the interviews and shows are low information

    They’re funny and I like the (usually) to hear the back and forth between the two hosts. But, and I hate to say it, the shows are shallow on info and the interviews, if I’m being brutally honest, are really really dumb question wise (and they get some great people on).

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Eorghhrw
    Australiaa year ago
  • +++

    Podcast Addict
    5
    2330016
    a year ago
  • Scott and Wes give a great and informative show. I like the light humor and side tangents that keep things interesting.

    Audible
    5
    Jikodis
    United Statesa year ago

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Positive notes about broad topics and guests; high usefulness for developers.
Listeners value the hosts' approachable banter and practical depth.
The show's vibe is described as friendly and relatable, like “hanging out with peers.”
Some listeners crave more depth on certain interviews and critique of AI trends.
Many appreciate staying up-to-date with tooling and real-world guidance.
A segment of feedback notes audio format choices; overall sentiment remains favorable.

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1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
Q: How should developers price AI-assisted work—by time or by value delivered?
Shift toward value delivered as the primary pricing metric, with time spent as a secondary consideration, recognizing that the AI-enabled output often has different cost structures and utilities for clients.
1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
Q: What should teams do to avoid bloated, hard-to-understand AI-generated back-ends when making large changes?
Encourage modular changes, extract shared utilities, and rely on well-defined interfaces and tests to keep the codebase approachable even as AI contributes significant functionality.
1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
Q: For UI code generated by AI, how do you keep the output readable and maintainable when you don't fully trust what the AI writes?
Use terse inline comments, establish strict prompting rules, and keep critical logic small and testable so you can reason about the code more easily, while gradually refactoring as needed.
1010: No one cares anymore?
Q: Can you explain the difference between an integration test and an end-to-end test?
An integration test checks how separate pieces or systems fit together, while an end-to-end test simulates real user interactions across the entire app, often using tools like Playwright or Cypress.
983: Why I Chose Electron Over Native (And I’d Do It Again)
Q: Can you provide some details about the app's recording capabilities?
Scott explains that the app allows recording multiple sources and avoids heavy processing time.

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Tech-focused web development discussion featuring two main hosts who explore practical, hands-on topics around JavaScript, frameworks, tooling, and AI integration in development workflows. Episodes frequently cover open-weight AI models, deployment tooling, browser APIs, and modern frontend engineering practices, often with guest perspectives. The show stands out for its approachable banter, breadth of topics from code architecture to tooling economics, and a strong emphasis on usable, production-oriented guidance. It's likely to appeal to developers who value practical depth, up-to-date tooling insights, and long-running conversations about the evolving web stack, with a friendly, conversational tone that makes complex topics accessible.

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1. Nathan Sobo
2. Dominic Gannaway
3. Dr. Courtney Tolinski
4. Dan Abramov
5. Dax Raad
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7. Amadeus De Marzi
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