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930: Text Editor Keybindings, WASM Replacing Docker, LLM apathy and hosting mini apps

930: Text Editor Keybindings, WASM Replacing Docker, LLM apathy and hosting mini apps

Update: 2025-08-20
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In this potluck episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about VS Code vs Cursor, navigating promotions and job titles, database fundamentals, avoiding decision paralysis, how AI is shaping frameworks, and more!



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  • 00:00 ">00:00 Welcome to Syntax!


  • 00:56 ">00:56 Brought to you by Sentry.io


  • 06:24 ">06:24 Moving from VS Code to Cursor without losing your shortcuts


  • 12:13 ">12:13 Should you bring up a senior promotion at a new job?


  • 16:32 ">16:32 Relying on LLMs vs. learning database fundamentals


  • 20:42 ">20:42 Overcoming decision paralysis in programming


  • 25:00 ">25:00 What to do when your code gets too messy


  • 27:39 ">27:39 Could Wasm replace Docker and Kubernetes?


  • 32:14 ">32:14 Organizing mini-apps in Express: monorepo, micro frontends, or something else?


  • 38:49 ">38:49 Will AI lock us into React and make new frameworks irrelevant?


  • 46:57 ">46:57 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs



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930: Text Editor Keybindings, WASM Replacing Docker, LLM apathy and hosting mini apps

930: Text Editor Keybindings, WASM Replacing Docker, LLM apathy and hosting mini apps

Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers