In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about learning soft skills, using release notes, headless CMS, dealing with web components and scripts, what inet is, better ways to use ChatGPT, and more!

Show Notes 00:11 Welcome 01:42 Scott’s butt pincher Affenpinscher 06:08 You keep missing my favorite thing about Civet Civet 07:31 What soft skills can I learn to help me in my career? HTML, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks 12:42 Have you thought about release notes or a what’s new section? Conventional Commits How to generate Changelog using Conventional Commits | by Riccardo Canella | Jobtome Engineering | Medium 15:57 Can you explain headless CMS and what the use-cases/implementations are? 19:24 Any suggestions for dealing with web components and the client’s tracking scripts How to Read Flamegraphs 🔥 Chromium F12 Profiler: The Main Thread Pane Agent Creation has a large CPU time · Issue #915 · bluesky-social/atproto 25:27 Why do we need .d.ts files in TypeScript? 30:15 What is inset in CSS? inset - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN 35:06 Is there a way to use AI/chat gpt to more quickly and easily understand technical documentation? Anthropic \ Home Getting Started 🚀 Astro Documentation ChatGPT Plugin - AskTheCode | GPTStore.ai ChatGPT Plugin - Scraper | GPTStore.ai Overview | TanStack Query Docs Custom instructions for ChatGPT 40:59 why is the following true: the string “undefined”.includes(undefined)? 43:27 How do you organize your code directories? 48:50 Is there any good reason in 2023 why we should still be loading JS files with all our script tags at the bottom of the body element? 54:32 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Surge power bar Wes: Little Hippo Alarm Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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