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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
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.
Episodes
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1047: Adobe has a big problem
Someone just clean-room ported seven Adobe apps to Rust, and Wes is shocked at how good it is. Scott and Wes break down what it gets right, what’s still…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1046: The Pi Updates are insane
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1045: Who can actually max out 5 AI subscriptions?
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about what replaced blogging, what to do while your AI agent works, and who should pay for token costs. They also cover…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1044: Ruby on Rails is Dead
Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1043: I’m Using GPUI For Everything
Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1042: Is the Jev Hype Overblown?
Is Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1041: What are normies using AI for?
Scott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1040: Developing for the iPhone Duo
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1039: Should You Quit Your Job?
Scott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra
Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care)
Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up
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…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?
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…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1034: Omarchy Quattro Release
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…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1033: 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know
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…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B
Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying
Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed
Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1028: Cloudflare Wallets
Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face
A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1025: The Open Web's second chance (w/ Dan Abramov)
Dan Abramov joins Scott and Wes to explain AT Protocol, the open standard quietly rebuilding the social web. They get into how it actually works, why it’s way…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1024: Open Models Replace Big AI
A huge week for open models: Inkling (the first big US open-weight model since Gemma 4), Qwen 3.8, and Kimi 3 all dropped. Plus Vue 3.6 RC + Vapor Mode, the…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1023: Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive
Running your dev process off your main machine doesn’t have to mean the cloud. Scott and Wes break down how to host projects on a box you can reach from any…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1022: Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad
CJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team’s…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1021: We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins Scott and Wes to talk remote dev servers, OpenCode 2.0, and why his team is “addicted” to AI models they’re not even…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1020: Do You Read The Code?
Auto-accept on, brain off? We’re getting into whether anyone actually reads the code they ship anymore — then it’s HTTP’s first new method in 16 years (meet…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1019: LGTM, Ship It: The AI Code Review Problem
This episode tackles the growing pains of AI-assisted development, from the struggle of reviewing thousands of lines of agent-generated code to the mounting…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1018: Google fires Workspace CLI Creator
Google fires the engineer behind its Workspace CLI tool, OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 with three new model tiers, and Astro 7 lands with a full Rust rewrite. Plus…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1017, We need to stop calling it “AI”
Scott and Wes raid the listener mailbag to settle the pnpm vs. npm debate, decode how web standards sneak into your browser, and ask the big one: is “AI” even…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1016: More Bots Than Humans
Wes, Scott, and CJ break down the latest web dev news. From AI agents and coding tools to Deno Desktop, Nub, and predictive UX. They also discuss bot-filled…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1015: Browsers and UIs are dead. Everything is chat
Is the web dead, or just evolving? Wes Bos breaks down his JS Nation Amsterdam talk on agentic interfaces, why chat won’t replace everything, how Web MCP lets…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1014: Anthropic doesn’t use AI
Scott, Wes, and CJ reunite fresh off a trip to Amsterdam to chat conferences, burnout, and whether Anthropic actually uses AI. They also dig into a packed bag…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1013: Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero
Live at JSNation in Amsterdam, Scott, Wes, and CJ break down Cloudflare’s acquisition of VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc. They dig…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1012: Who Decides What Ships on the Web?
Scott and Wes sit down with Jake Archibald from Mozilla to unpack how web standards actually get made at Firefox. From browser features and developer feedback…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1011: tmux + Terminal Maxxing with Ben Vinegar
Scott and Wes sit down with Ben Vinegar, former Syntax GM and founder of Modem.dev, to geek out over terminal-maxxing, from SSH-based development and tmux…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1010: No one cares anymore?
On this episode, Scott and Wes dig into the messy reality of modern front-end work, from struggling to find skilled devs and navigating team chaos to…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1009: 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AI
Scott and Wes react to the freshly released State of AI 2026 survey, covering everything from skyrocketing AI adoption and the rise of coding agents to the…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1008: Diffs, Trees, and VS Code 2.0
Scott and Wes sit down with Alex Sexton and Amadeus De Marzi from Pierre Computer to dig into the gnarly performance challenges behind building blazing-fast…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1007: 8 Tech Choices to Lock In Before Agentmaxxing
Wes and Scott talk about the foundational decisions that make AI-assisted coding actually work—database schemas, validation, routing, CSS structure, and more…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1006: Can AI Make Good Design?
Wes and Scott talk about whether AI can actually create good design, or if it just remixes the same patterns over and over. They dig into AI-generated UX…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1005: Programatic and Skill based Video Creation with Remotion
Scott and Wes are joined by Jonny Burger, creator of Remotion, to talk about the explosion of programmatic video, going from 125k to 800k installs per day, and…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1004: TanHacked
Scott and Wes break down the “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack that compromised TanStack and other popular npm packages through a clever GitHub Actions…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1003: Skills Skills Skills
Scott and Wes chat all things agent skills for web developers, sharing their favorites for everything from CSS animations and HTML generation to logo…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1002: The Real Pricing of LLMs
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about LLM usage-based pricing, security risks from malicious code in interviews, staying…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1001: Managing Deadlines + Stress
Scott and Wes tackle the all-too-real stress of crunch time as a web developer—how to handle looming deadlines, avoid sloppy shortcuts, and stay methodical…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats1000: Syntax Episode 1,000!
Wes and Scott celebrate 1000 episodes of Syntax, reflecting on how the podcast started, the team behind it, memorable moments, listener stats, inside jokes…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats999: Writing Maintainable CSS
Scott and Wes break down what makes CSS truly manageable—from preventing style leaks and embracing fluid layouts to choosing the right methodology, whether…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats998: How to Fix Vibe Coding
Wes and Scott talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint, and Sentry. They cover code quality…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats997: Rating and Roasting Your Projects
Scott and Wes dig into a huge batch of community-submitted projects, from JSON tools and CSS editors to AI agents, view transitions, and everything in between…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats996: 10 New CSS and HTML APIs
Wes and Scott talk about the latest CSS and browser features, including the Grid Lines API for masonry layouts, HTML in Canvas, name-only container queries…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats995: Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More
In this episode, Scott and Wes sit down with Tim Neutkens and Jimmi Lai from the Next.js team to dig into the new Adapters API, what it takes to run Next.js…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats994: AI Sucks At CSS
In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI struggles with CSS and design workflows, learning vs relying on AI, debugging…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats993: It’s Been A Hell Of Week
Scott and Wes break down a chaotic week in dev news — the Claude Code source leak, a nasty Axios npm supply chain hack, and Railway’s private cache exposure —…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats992: Migrating Legacy Code Just Got Easier
Wes and Scott talk about migrating large codebases with AI — how to plan framework and language moves, establish patterns, handle templating changes, test…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats991: Vite’s bet on Cloudflare (VOID Framework)
Vite just launched Void, a fullstack JavaScript framework and cloud platform that bundles together routing, SSR, auth, an ORM, and nearly everything you’d…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats990: Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)
Wes, Scott, and CJ talk about Vite+, a unified JavaScript toolchain that combines linting, formatting, task running, monorepos, and more. They break down its…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats989: State of JS 2025
Scott and Wes dig into the latest State of JS survey results, breaking down which JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and tools are rising, falling, or holding…
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats988: Cloudflare’s Next.js Slop Fork
Wes and Scott talk with Steve Faulkner about vinext, a Vite-powered Next.js fork. They dive into AI coding workflows, agent browsers, code quality, and what…