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
August 12, 2026 • 59 mins
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 talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powers.
Show Notes
00:00 Start
00:35 Welcom to Syntax
01:13 The Journey to Zed: Building the Ultimate Tool
03:26 Why Rust was chosen for Zed?
06:2...
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August 10, 2026 • 78 mins
Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:02 Shai Hulud is back!
New Shai-Hulud announcement
Attacked keyv packages
05:27 GitHu...
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August 5, 2026 • 63 mins
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 actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in massive codebases, introducing kids to AI, a Linux life update, and more!
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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:18 The Rise of the D...
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August 3, 2026 • 96 mins
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 into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:03 React Compiler Ported to Rust
06:39 Vercel releases TS to Native Compiler
19:26 Standard Agent Zen Garden
29:14 In-Hou...
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July 29, 2026 • 60 mins
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 bigger than just Bluesky, and why Dan calls it one of the most interesting ideas on the internet right now.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:45 Welcome to Syntax!
01:46 Introduction of Dan Abramov
02:55 Understanding AT Protocol and Its Importance
06:41 The Relationship...
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July 27, 2026 • 67 mins
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 slow death of Stack Overflow, a decoy font that blinds AI, and the usual grab bag of fun links.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:44 Welcome to Syntax
03:01 Vue.js 3.6 RC Released
Vue.js 3.6-RC.1
09:50 Brought to you by Sentry
10:35 Rift - new worktree alternative
Rift
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July 22, 2026 • 48 mins
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 device, close your laptop mid-build, and keep long-running processes alive. They cover Scott’s stack (Mosh, Caddy, Tailscale, Zed, and terminal AI agents like Claude Code), the annoyances of mobile TUIs, and whether it beats staying local.
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00:00 Intro
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July 20, 2026 • 75 mins
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 dismay), and Better Auth joins Vercel. Plus GPT-5.6 first impressions, Odin 1.0, Cloudflare’s new Workers cache and drag-and-drop deploys, and the OpenCode 2 beta.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:21 CJ upgraded his homelab network
02:09 TypeScript 7 is 10x ...
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July 15, 2026 • 51 mins
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 allowed to name yet.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:43 Welcome to Syntax!
01:22 Remote Development Environments and Their Benefits
Dax’s post
Latitude.sh
exe.dev
06:24 The Setup: Tmux and Long-Running Sessions
07:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
08:...
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July 13, 2026 • 87 mins
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 QUERY) and OpenAI’s compute-hungry “Sol Ultra” tier landing in Codex. Bring your hot takes and hang out with us live.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:31 Welcome to Syntax!
01:44 World Cup Chat
03:21 Do you read the code?
Theo’s t...
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July 8, 2026 • 39 mins
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 technical debt when teams merge PRs without meaningful human review. Scott and Wes also dig into local models, whether jujutsu really beats git, how freelancers should price work in the AI era, and getting your team on board with external libraries.
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July 6, 2026 • 77 mins
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: Coinbase cuts token costs with smarter routing, and more in this week’s Syntax Live
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:34 Welcome to Syntax!
01:46 Google fires Workspace CLI Creator
12:30 GPT 5.6 Is Coming
19:59 GLM 5.2 Released
23:23 Astro 7 Rust Re-write
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July 1, 2026 • 56 mins
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 intelligent, or just fancy autocomplete? Plus Stack Overflow nostalgia, the Shadcn head-scratcher, and why big design systems are sleeping on modern HTML.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:44 Welcome to Syntax!
01:51 Exploring CSS Component Approaches
07:30 Bro...
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June 29, 2026 • 83 mins
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 social media, remote work debates, and a slick 3D bookstore experience.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:35 Welcome to Syntax!
01:43 Codex Design Smell
03:55 More Bots Than Humans
Bot vs Human
Post-smoke test software era
12:38 Social Media Is Nothing But Bots
19:55 B...
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June 24, 2026 • 17 mins
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 agents interact with your existing sites, and what “Clicks and Clankers” really means for the future of UI.
Show Notes
00:00 Intro
00:33 Welcome to Syntax!
00:46 Wes’s Talk: Agentic Interfaces at JS Nation
01:37 Is the Web Dead? Chat vs. Tr...
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June 22, 2026 • 92 mins
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 of sick picks and tech news, including HTML streaming in Chrome, an image-to-ASCII generator, and a wild Arch Linux supply chain attack.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
02:15 Anthropic Doesn’t Use AI
Thariq’s Tweet
Tweet Response
06:15 Taste and ...
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June 17, 2026 • 14 mins
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 into why this is genuinely exciting, not scary, covering what it means for the open source tooling you already use, Cloudflare’s growing tip-to-tail stack, and why infrastructure might be the one thing LLMs can never sherlock
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June 15, 2026 • 69 mins
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 to the drama around the Prompt API. They discuss Interop 2026, the future of web APIs, and what it’s really like shaping the web after a career spanning both Google and Mozilla.
Show Notes
00:00 The Importance of Sunscreen
02:29 Welcome to Syntax!
04:35 Tr...
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June 8, 2026 • 65 mins
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 workflows to AI-powered coding agents. Ben also demos two of his open source tools: Hunk, a slick terminal code reviewer with 4k+ GitHub stars, and TermDraw, a terminal-based diagramming tool that posts directly to your agent.
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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:49 Intr...
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June 3, 2026 • 56 mins
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 questioning code quality, testing, and even whether AI is stealing the joy of programming.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax
01:06 The Challenge of Finding Skilled Front-End Developers
05:11 Understanding Design Mode and Its Applications
10:33 Navigating Team Dynami...
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