Special Guest(s):

• Rachel Nabors, formerly of React at Meta known for their work on reactnative.dev and react.dev 
• Evan Bacon, Engineering Manager at Expo
• Matt Carroll, Developer Advocate React at Meta

Relevant Links:

• The Two Reacts blog post by Dan Abramov
• Rachel Nabors on Twitter, @rachelnabors
• Evan Bacon on Twitter, @Baconbrix
• Matt Carroll on Twitter, @mattcarrollcode

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News:

• Paige - Code editor Zed goes open source
• Jack - “Hey Code” in VS Code
• TJ - Apple changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU
  • Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox

Bonus News:

• Open Props

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Kindle Paperwhite 
• Jack - Oura smart ring
• TJ - One Piece on Netflix

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News:

• Paige - New Web Components features from the W3C
• Jack - Code Hike
• TJ - Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro drama

Bonus News:

• Bun Shell - experimental shell scripting in JS

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - ColorIt Mandalas coloring book
• Jack - Brothers Sun TV series
• TJ - Lugeing!

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News:

• Paige - ReScript 11.0 - a TS competitor
• Jack - Donut components
  • Matteo Frana: React, where are you going?
  • Cassidy Williams: Kind of annoyed at React
• TJ - OpenAI launches a GPT Store & Netlify’s example

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Fargo TV series and JustThe Recipe.com
• Jack - The Marvels movie
• TJ - Paprika app

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News:

• Paige - Superglue - Rails with React & Redux framework
• Jack - Svelte 5 preview
• TJ - NY Times is Suing OpenAI

Bonus news:

• Knip

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - A Court of Thorns and Roses book
• Jack - What If…? season 2
• TJ - CES 

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News:

• Paige - TanStack Router 1.0
• Jack - Catalyst UI Kit
• TJ - date-fns v3

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Money Heist: Berlin 
• Jack - Personalized art and wine experience
• TJ - Fourth Wing book

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News:

• The Adobe Figma merger fell apart

Predictions:

• Paige - More native JS APIs
• Jack - A return to simpler JS frameworks
• TJ - AI in the whole code base

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Morning Show TV series
• Jack - Twinkly Christmas Lights 
• TJ - Coffee advent calendar from Brew Company

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News:

• Paige - Waku - new minimal React framework designed for RSCs
• Jack - Agile 2
• TJ - Safari 17.2

Bonus News:

• Peach Fuzz is the 2024 color of the year
• Envy HTTP tracing
• Cody AI code assistant

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Twinkly Christmas lights and Slow Horses TV series
• Jack - The Artful Dodger TV series
• TJ - Wheel of Time TV series

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News:

• Paige - XState v5 debuts the “actor model”
• Jack - StyleX
• TJ - Deno Cron

Bonus News:

• VS Code floating editor windows 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - General good health
• Jack - CO2 detector
• TJ - Twinkly Christmas Lights

Join Us:

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