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Samsung Unpacked happened this week and have the phones in hand! Marques and Andrew go over the S22 and the S22 Ultra before having a chat with Josh Wardle. You may have heard of the viral game Wordle that he created but you might not know that he was also one of the minds behind a few popular April Fool's day experiments at Reddit too. Whether you're interested in the new phones or what went into the making of this viral hit, this episode is a good one. Links: Samsung Galaxy S22 Impressions: https://bit.ly/3Bf7feF Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Impressions: https://bit.ly/3Lkd4w9 Wordle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Twitters: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://twitter.com/adamlukas17 https://twitter.com/powerlanguish Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ Shop the merch: shop.mkbhd.com Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the creator of Wordle, Josh Wardle. What's the tech stack for Wordle? Does he care about the clones of Wordle? And how did selling Wordle work?

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Show Notes

• 00:27:02 Guest introduction
• Wordle
• 02:45:13 How did Wordle go viral initially?
• 05:27:14 Where did the idea for Wordle come from?
• 07:07:06 What's your background?
• Reddit.com
• 12:52:23 Writing just HTML CSS and JavaScript
• 15:58:24 Wordle has 2 external dependancies
• 16:41:06 Sponsor: Sentry
• 17:40:23 The tech stack of Wordle
• Lit Elements
• just-merge
• gzip
• Cloudflare
• AWS S3
• 22:21:04 Would you use web components again?
• 29:36:08 How much did hosting cost?
• 29:55:01 How does Wordle remember my streak?
• 33:56:07 Do you play Wordle everyday?
• 36:28:11 Sponsor: Sanity
• 37:16:07 How do you land on internet hits so often?
• 40:33:15 Are you aware of the clones?
• Gordle
• 44:33:15 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 45:17:10 Selling Wordle to the New York Times
• 49:05:20 Dealing with the domain name
• 54:15:09 What's his opener word?
• 56:03:03 Juice
• Juice it or Lose it talk
• 59:10:06 Sick Picks!

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• Wes:

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