In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about how to give feedback on the podcast, deciding on a business model for courses, what to do about Twitter, and more.

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Show Notes

00:10 Welcome
01:51 Podcast feedback
04:46 Can you talk about how you made the decision to re-write LevelUp?
Strangler Fig
13:54 How did you get a score for your website?
Google Pagespeed
19:30 Where will we move to when Twitter implodes?
Twitter Blue
26:29 Sponsor: Linode
27:06 How did you arrive at your business model?
33:15 Advice for getting into freelancing web dev?
38:49 Sponsor: Sentry
40:07 How to feel more “senior” as a developer
43:30 How do you manage notifications between various apps?
Hazel
50:46 Label makers
Nimbot label makers
54:14 Sponsor: Freshbooks
54:45 How are people testing node apps?
JestJS
Vitest
Mocha
ChaiJS
56:38 What are your thoughts on the TanStack Router?
Tanstack
Astro
SvelteKit
Nozzle
01:09 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Scott: Sensibo Air
Wes: We Crashed

Shameless Plugs

Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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552: Potluck × Twitter Thoughts × Business Models × Senior Developer