In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes do a 2019 year in review — the most popular Syntax episodes, what they learned, some personal updates, plans for next year, and more!

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Show Notes

1:40 - Plans for 2020

Syntax Live March 2019
Plans for 2020
Twitter has done really well for @syntaxfm
Community feels great

9:20 - Top 10 Syntax episodes of 2019

Syntax162: The Fundamentals - JS
Syntax120: Gatsby vs Next
Syntax158: The Fundamentals - HTML + CSS
Syntax126: Bootcamps vs School vs Self-Learning
Syntax138: What's New in Web Development
Syntax130: The VueJS Show (Scott teaches Wes)
Syntax146: CSS the Cool Parts
Syntax174: How to Build an API
Syntax154: SVGs with Sara Soueidan
Syntax106: A Look Forward to 2019

25:17 - Personal Stuff

Scott
- Brooklyn Tolinksi
- 2019 was really tough for me
- Level Up courses for 12 months
- Huge changes to my production values and office
- Huge changes to LUT codebase (React hooks, Typescript, Next.js, Mongoose)
Wes
- New Baby in June / 3 months Paternity Leave
- Bought a cottage
- Hardest course to make was Beginner JS — it was a slog, hard to stay motivated at times, with 80 hours of recording alone
- Course Platform re-write (Next.js)

39:17 - Stuff we learned

Scott
- Better speaker
- Lots of TypeScript
- Better debugging
- Hooks
- Svelte
- General improvement in JS writing and programming skills
Wes
- Really good at Vanilla.js DOM API
- React Hooks
- Suspense
- Audio Visualization
- Shape Detection API - Faces, Barcodes, Text
- Headless CMS: Prismic, Sanity, WordPress GraphQL, Keystone.js, Hasura
- Very good understanding of the nitty gritty of JS (closures, objects, this, new keyword, classes, etc.)

Links

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Scott: The Dream Podcast
Wes: Synology DiskStation DS918+

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