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The State of Javascript 2026
Scott and Wes dig into the latest State of JS survey results, breaking down which JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and tools are rising, falling, or holding steady in the ever-shifting JS ecosyste...
The Internet’s Best Web Devs Compete in CSS | Quarter Finals
We brought 16 of the worlds best CSS developers to compete head to head. https://www.madcss.com Follow / subscribe to all of our featured competitors: Kevin Powell @KevinPowell https://x.com/Ke...
What's the best way to prepare for a 1 on 1 CSS battle?
How did the contestants in Round 1 part 2 prepare for their first MadCSS battle?? #marchmadcss #marchmadness
MadCSS Round 1 Breakdown and Solution
In this video CJ breaks down competitor solutions for MadCSS Round 1 and also shows the official 100% solution. 🔥 Be the ~18,300th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_s...
How Cloudflare Slop Forked Next.js
Wes and Scott talk with Steve Faulkner about vinext, a Vite-powered Next.js fork. They dive into AI coding workflows, agent browsers, code quality, and what modern dev tooling looks like in an AI-f...
Remote Coding Agents
Scott and Wes break down the world of remote coding agents — what they are, why you’d want one, and all the different ways you can run them, from Cursor Cloud and Claude Code to an old laptop sitti...
We Hosted a 16-Developer CSS Tournament | Round 1 | Right Bracket
We brought 16 of the worlds best CSS developers to compete head to head. Snag a bomber jacket here: https://checkout.sentry.shop/products/syntax-march-madcss-bomber?Size=S https://www.madcss.com ...
You Guide To Local AI | Hardware, Setup and Models
In this video CJ guides you through the wide world of local AI. He shows how he set up his new 128GB memory mini PC and gives his overall impressions of running local models for basic tasks and cod...
Lando Norris card animation
How we recreated Lando Norris's stunning card hover animation from his website.
Does Code Quality Matter Anymore?
In this potluck episode, Wes and Scott answer your questions about popover navigation patterns, the Vibrate API on iOS, whether code quality still matters in the AI era, Wes’s evolving Obsidian sec...
Stop putting secrets in .env
Scott and Wes are joined by Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim to talk about Varlock, a new approach to environment variables that adds schemas, validation, and security to the humble .env file. They dig...
The BIGGEST CSS Web Dev Battle Tournament Ever | Round 1 | Left Bracket
We brought 16 of the worlds best CSS developers to compete head to head. 🔥 Be the ~18,300th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack https://www.madcss.com Follow...
How to Make a DOM Library Render Anything w/ Paolo Ricciuti
Wes and Scott talk with Paolo Ricciuti about Svelte custom renderers and how Svelte actually talks to the DOM. They dig into compiler internals, CSS handling, native bridges, and the realities of m...
Why I Chose Electron Over Tauri (And I’d Do It Again)
Wes and Scott talk about building v_framer, Scott’s custom multi-source video recording app, and why Electron beat Tauri and native APIs for the job. They dig into MKV vs WebM, crash-proof recordin...
SpaceTime DB 2.0 is 1000x Faster... (so they say) - and more! | 3 Devs - 3 Things
Scott, Wes and CJ each bring something to share with the group including how Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js from Scratch, the launch of SpacetimeDB and show how one person re-made an x86 CPU in pure CS...
Bots Are Ruining the Internet
Wes and Scott talk about the latest dev news: Node enabling Temporal by default, OpenAI acquiring OpenClaw, TypeScript 6, new TanStack and Deno releases, the explosion of AI agent platforms, and mo...
Browsers Are Finally Catching Up (Interop 2026)
Scott and Wes unpack Interop 2026 and the browser features finally aligning across engines, from container style queries and anchor positioning to scroll-driven animations and view transitions. The...
THIS is how to expose your apps to AI: WebMCP
THIS is how to expose your apps to AI: WebMCP
Wes and Scott's 2026 Coding Setup and Tools
Wes and Scott talk about the state of AI coding in 2026—from editors and models to agents, skills, slash commands, MCPs, and more. They unpack what these things actually do, how they overlap, and h...
THIS is how to expose your apps to AI: WebMCP
Scott and Wes unpack WebMCP, a new standard that lets AI interact with websites through structured tools instead of slow, bot-style clicking. They demo it, debate imperative vs declarative APIs, an...
15 Minutes to Rebuild This Product Card… Winner Takes All
Scott and Wes go head-to-head in a 15-minute 1v1 coding battle on our brand new SynHax platform. CJ commentates the chaos as they race to recreate product cards from our own website. Who ships the ...
How do you rack up a $46k Vercel bill?
The site https://jmail.world/ absolutely blew up and was hit with a unexpected bill. My thoughts on what that bill was made up of and how to avoid this in your projects. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Compute...
Should A New Coder Use AI?
Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI agents, learning to code with AI, pagination patterns, skilling up from outdated tech stacks, balancing side projects with family life, real-world hacki...
search results suck right now, use THIS instead
CJ is tired of AI slop in search results. In this video he shows how to set up and use SearXNG a self hosted privacy conscious search engine aggregator as well as Perplexica, a self hosted privacy ...
This component could have been a class
"When you have a component that is simply just a link styled as a button, you have lost the dang plot" - Scott Tolinski
We Built a Real-Time CSS Battle Game (and it actually works)
Scott and Wes break down how they built SynHax, the real-time CSS Battle app powering the upcoming Mad CSS tournament. From SvelteKit and Zero to diffing algorithms, sync conflicts, and a last-minu...
The Impossible Avatar
MadCSS.com Code to my solution: https://codepen.io/wesbos/pen/OPXwByX hit me up with your solution in the comments below. https://x.com/wesbos
You Should Be Using Tailscale
Links: https://tailscale.com/ https://zed.dev/ DNS settings: https://login.tailscale.com/admin/dns https://opencode.ai/ This is how I have my Openclaw (clawdbot) set up along with my entire dev pr...
Claude Code is overkill - Pi is All you Need
Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher and Mario Zechner about PI, a minimalist agent harness powering tools like OpenClaw. They unpack why Bash is “all you need,” the risks of agents, workflow ada...
Should you grant AI access to your browser?
Should you give AI access to your browser?
What’s Missing From the Web Platform?
Scott and Wes run through their wishlist for the web platform, digging into the UI primitives, DOM APIs, and browser features they wish existed (or didn’t suck). From better form controls and drag-...
Why can't we make UIs like the movies?
Hollywood is back at it with more “hacking” that makes absolutely no sense. Scott, Wes, and CJ break down scenes from Swordfish, Die Hard, Skyfall, Silicon Valley, and more. What’s real, what’s fak...
Turns out your smart devices aren’t magic
Turns out your smart devices aren’t magic… they’re just Linux in a plastic case — and surprisingly easy to crack open. #syntaxfm #webdev #linux #hacking #hardware #IoT
I Gave OpenClaw Full Control of My Computer
Links https://openclaw.ai/ https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-audio https://graffiti-ui.com/ https://x.com/theonejvo/status/2016510190464675980 https://x.com/theo...
This AI Agent Runs Your Entire Dev Workflow
Wes and Scott talk about building hyper-specific personal software with AI. They explore personal agents, home automation, JSON-as-a-database, and how LLMs unlock fast, custom apps that reduce fric...
Is chat UI is the endgame?
Kent C. Dodds thinks chat UI is the endgame
Browsers are cooked. MCP UI with Kent C. Dodds
Scott and Wes sit down with Kent C. Dodds to break down MCP, context engineering, and what it really takes to build effective AI-powered tools. They dig into practical examples, UI patterns, perfor...
Gradient borders will be the death of me
Gradient borders look simple… until they absolutely aren’t. Scott races the clock to recreate this deceptively tricky animated button using only HTML and CSS, no images, no shortcuts, just pure CSS...
These Things Make Your App Feel Like Crap on Mobile
Wes and Scott talk about why mobile web apps often feel “janky” compared to native—and how to fix it. They cover input zooming, accidental horizontal scroll, pointer/user-select quirks, frame rate ...
Will Mozilla Firefox survive?
Mozilla is becoming an AI browser and people are not stoked. Mozilla has two options now: Cease to exist or get more users. What's gonna happen?
Stackoverflow and Firefox are Dead?
Is Stack Overflow actually dying, and what does that mean in an AI-driven dev world? Scott and Wes break down the latest web dev news, from Firefox’s AI crossroads and Apple’s browser engine change...
This nav broke my brain (coding speed run)
This nav looks simple until you try to build it. Wes races the clock to recreate the Motion Tabs nav by @raul_dronca using modern CSS, including anchor(), with no shortcuts and no frameworks. A fas...
you should be using dev containers
In this video CJ shows why dev containers are so great and how to get started with them. 00:00 - demo 03:04 - what are containers? 04:48 - the dev containers spec 05:13 - dev container templates 0...
Why Did Anthropic Buy Bun?
Wes and Scott answer your questions about whether Git GUIs beat the terminal, balancing accessibility with experimental web projects, blocking malicious traffic, smart home setups, why Anthropic bo...
JavaScript isn't a good tool for the backend
HOT TAKE - Do you agree?? "JavaScript isn't a good tool for the backend" - Dimitri Metropolis
This Guy Broke TypeScript
Scott and Wes sit down with Dimitri Mitropoulos to explore the wild edges of TypeScript, from running Doom in the type system to building tools like Typeslayer. They dig into Turing-complete types,...
writing javascript as fast as possible
In this video CJ tries to solve as many 7 Kyu code wars code katas in 7 minutes as possible. Try the problems from this video: Currying functions: multiply all elements in an array | https://www....
Habits and Changes We Want to Make in 2026
Wes and Scott talk about setting realistic goals for the new year, building habits through small, sustainable changes, creating systems that actually stick, and why incremental progress beats big r...
Why is the web essentially sh!t now?
We're curious what you all think about this -- How can companies maintain pleasant web experience their users while also supporting their business needs??
Why is the web essentially $h!t now??
Scott, Wes, and CJ answer some of the biggest questions from r/webdev including the viral post asking why the internet feels so bad now. From bloated sites and bad UX to business incentives and mod...