In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the secret sauce that’s going into the creation of the new Syntax.fm website including the styling, search, tooling, database, hosting, and more.

• 00:21:15 Welcome
• 01:10:11 Where did the name “Secret Sauce” come from?
• 03:16:00 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 04:32:11 What Syntax.fm is built in?
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
  
• muxinc/media-chrome: Custom elements (web components) for making audio and video player controls that look great in your website or app.
  
• Media Chrome Docs
  
• 07:24:01 How we’re doing search
• flexsearch - npm
  
• 12:22:20 Styling
• Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter
  
• PostCSS - a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
  
• 16:00:05 Tooling
• Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm
  
• 18:55:11 Database
• Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript
  
• 21:11:11 Services
• Deepgram
  
• OpenAI
  
• Anthropic \ Introducing Claude
  
• 24:34:11 Hosting
• Vercel: Develop. Preview. Ship. For the best frontend teams
  
• PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform — PlanetScale
  
• Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare
  

• 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