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

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!

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

00:56 Brought to you by Sentry.io

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

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

16:32 Relying on LLMs vs. learning database fundamentals

20:42 Overcoming decision paralysis in programming

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

27:39 Could Wasm replace Docker and Kubernetes?

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

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

46:57 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Wes and Scott: Niimbot

Shameless Plugs

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