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The Show Notes!

02:00

Scott's 2017 Look Back

Scott is a new parent

Dealing with kids who don't sleep

Scott's Breakdancing Gains

05:20

Wes' Look Back

Taking Health Seriously

First full year of Wes doing tutorials full time

Course Correction VS Goals

Course Platform Improvements

Lots of Email Marketing

Migration to Drip

09:10

Scott cut ties with startup

100% Invested in Levelup Tutorials

Major Platform improvements

New Payment Gateways

Lots of new Series - 400 videos!

11:25

We Launched Syntax!

Thank you!

The show is getting good (we think?)

13:50

Wes launched his Learn Node Course

Wes updated his ES6 for Everyone Course

Lots of feedback on Wes' JavaScript30 course

Stickers!

16:20

Goals for 2018

The Yacht Club

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

18:00

Scott's 2018 Goals

More videos

More Youtube

Building a Set

Less Overtime

20:35

Wes' 2018 Goals

Releasing lots and lots of Content

CSS Grid

VS Code

Some ideas around JavaScript and CSS Courses tweet Wes your feedback

If it's not a Hell Yes, it's a no

Double down on what works

New Checkout Experience

Delegate + Automate

Get faster at recording

29:40

JavaScript in 2018

SSR Frameworks: Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt.js

ParcelJS

Tooling is becoming less of a pain in the ass

33:00

GraphQL Is Blowin' Upppppp

Typed Languages / Typings

Flow / Typescript / ReasonML / GraphQL Typings

38:00

WordPress' Gutenberg Editor

41:00

React Patent's Dropped

Vue became really popular

45:30

CSS Changes!

CSS Grid

Firefox CSS Grid Dev Tools

48:50

Componentized CSS

Design Systems

Figma

CSS Variables

54:00

VS Code became very popular

55:00

The Iron Yard shut down

58:00

Progressive Web Apps

59:00

What do we hope for in 2018?

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