Front-End Fire

In this episode, we look at whether “founding sponsor” is becoming the new AI acqui-hire, Tanner building a possible React replacement, and how Claude could get faster thanks to a new deal with SpaceX.

Timestamps:

• 0:58 - Tanner builds Redact
• 8:14 - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX
• 19:03 - Warp is now open source
• 29:58 - Node 26 is out
• 32:07 - ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins
• 42:21 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Warp is open source and OpenAI is its founding sponsor
• Jack - Projecting React
• TJ - Anthropic makes a deal with SpaceX

Lightning News: 

• Node 26 is out
• ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Koerner Office on YouTube
• Jack - 3d printed Star Wars guns
• TJ - The Lies of Locke Lamora novel

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In this episode:

• pnpm tightens its security stance
• We talk about whether the AI bill is coming due
• And Remix v3 is back in the news

Timestamps:

• 1:35 - The AI price hike
• 16:31 - Remix v3 beta preview
• 27:33 - pnpm 11’s security changes
• 35:28 - Firefox adds tab notes
• 41:10 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - AI price hikes are coming for us all, Anthropic’s changed its plan offerings, GitHub Copilot is rolling out usage based billing
• Jack - Remix v3 beta preview
• TJ - pnpm 11

Lightning News: 

• Firefox adds tab notes

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Claude Superpower skills
• Jack - Ted Lasso season 4
• TJ - Duolingo

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In this episode:

• Anthropic sets its sights on designers
• Vercel has a “security incident”
• And Elon eyes an IDE

Timestamps:

• 0:50 - Anthropic introduces Claude Design
• 10:07 - Vercel’s security incident
• 18:27 - SpaceX is buying Cursor
• 26:15 - Google is cracking down on “back button hijacking”
• 28:35 - Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight
• 32:45 - Fire Starter
• 36:40 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Anthropic introduces Claude Design
• Jack - SpaceX is buying Cursor
• TJ - Vercel has a “security incident”

Lightning News: 

• Google cracking down on “back button hijacking”
• Anthropic bans a 60-person company overnight

Fire Starter:

• Git 2.54 has a new way to reword commits

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Libby audiobooks
• Jack - Reolink security cameras
• TJ - Installing every Firefox extension

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This week special guests Dan Wilson of DataCurl and Kyler Krenek of Vowel join us to discuss when AI belongs in products and what kinds of AI tools are best suited to different needs.

Special Guests:

• Dan Wilson, Principal Partner of DataCurl
• Kyler Krenek, cofounder of Vowel 

Relevant Links:

• Dan’s personal website
• Dan’s company website
• Dan on LinkedIn
• Kyler’s GitHub
• Kyler’s blog
• Kyler on LinkedIn
• Vowel.to

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Shrinking season 3
• TJ - Claude Cowork
• Jack - Giving stuff way
• Dan - New drug coming on the market for Pancreatic Cancer. 
• Kyler - OpenCode Web with GPT-5.4 - Much easier bugfixing

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One of the former React Core team members caused quite the stir last week when he released Pretext, a TypeScript library that uses math to make text measurement and layout super fast. Handy for niche use cases? Definitely. Controversial online? Extremely.

Also this week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a new initiative bringing together all the biggest players in tech to reshape cybersecurity because Anthropic's latest frontier model Mythos has identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The orgs will use Mythos to up their software security before putting it in the hands of the rest of us.

And Cloudflare, ever in our weekly news cycle, has released EmDash, an Astro-powered version of WordPress using Cloudflare's infra to securely sandbox plugins and prevent the hacking that WP has long suffered from.

Timestamps:

• 1:53 - Pretext.js
• 9:20 - Anthropic’s new model: Mythos
• 15:27 - Cloudflare’s EmDash
• 24:31 - Claude Code buddies
• 30:09 - An update on how Axios was hacked
• 34:19 - Chrome is getting vertical tabs
• 35:47 - State of Web Dev AI survey
• 36:29 - Jack is a GDE
• 37:23 - Code mode is new in TanStack AI
• 41:47 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Pretext.js
• Jack - Anthropic's new model: Mythos
• TJ - Cloudflare’s EmDash and Matt Mullenweg’s response

Lightning News: 

• Claude Code buddies were for April Fools and the community now wants them back
• An update on how Axios was hacked
• Chrome is getting vertical tabs
• State of Web Dev AI Survey 2026
• Jack is a Google Developer Expert
• Code Mode is new in TanStack AI and Jack’s video about Code Mode

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - OpenAI’s GPT 5.4 in GH Copilot
• Jack - 3D printed planets
• TJ - Mammoth in concert

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This week, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code to the world when it published a source map inside an npm release. While the offending file was quickly removed, the code was out there and folks got to work speculating about what’s next for Claude Code. Always running background daemons, something known as “undercover mode”, and a cute little ASCII animal next to inputs are some of the things we might see in Claude’s future.

The npm hacks keep on coming as well, as popular data fetching library Axios is the latest victim. This particular hack delivered a remote access trojan (RAT) virus courtesy of a postinstall script, that deleted itself after execution to evade detection. Sneaky! Lock down your packages and dependencies, folks.

Timestamps:

• 1:13 - Anthropic accidentally Claude Code’s source code
• 14:02 - Popular npm library Axios got hacked
• 23:40 - RedwoodSDK 1.0
• 28:28 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code’s source code
• TJ - Popular npm library Axios got hacked

Lightning News: 

• RedwoodSDK 1.0

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Idiot podcast from the New York Times
• TJ - Activate Games

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Microsoft dropped the last version of JavaScript-powered TypeScript this week with TS 6.0. TypeScript 6 bridges the gap between the TS of yesteryear and the soon to come Go-powered TS compiler of TypeScript 7 that users can fix now so they can smoothly upgrade later.

Next.js 16.2 debuted this week with the usual performance improvements expected in a minor version upgrade, plus AI improvements to make AI-assisted development smoother and easier.

In response to Cloudflare’s Vinext fork a few weeks back, Vercel’s released a stable of adapter APIs to make deploying Next.js apps to hosting platforms besides Vercel easier. While this is a step in the right direction, it’s still not exactly “easy” to get all the bells and whistles of a Next app running on other platforms.

Timestamps:

• 0:52 - TypeScript 6
• 5:04 - Next 16.2
• 16:06 - Next.js adapters
• 20:04 - Firefox gets split views
• 22:03 - OpenAI shuts down Sora
• 25:48 - Claude can control your whole computer now
• 26:43 - Out Claude Cowork updates
• 36:41 - Ollama update
• 38:37 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - TypeScript 6
• Jack - Next.js adapters and potential Claude file setup
• TJ - Next.js 16.2 

Lightning News: 

• Firefox gets split view too
• OpenAI shuts down Sora
• Claude can control your whole computer now

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Claude Cowork
• Jack - Grilling
• TJ - The Strength of the Few book

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This week the VoidZero team shipped Vite 8. It’s using Rolldown under the hood and boasting 30x faster builds, full plugin compatibility, integrated devtools, and a searchable registry for all plugins.

Co-host Jack has officially joined Netlify as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer and announces the launch of Netlify Start. Start a new Netlify project with a prompt on the site, and see it built and deployed in minutes, and keep iterating on it from there.

The Node.js team is changing their release schedule so that every release now (both even and odd) numbers will be an LTS release, and beginning in 2027, it will be named release 27, just to make it easier for everyone.

Timestamps:

• 0:57 - Vite 8 is out
• 8:04 - Jack joins Netlify and Netlify Start
• 12:21 - Node.js is changing their release cadence
• 20:10 - The dictionary sues OpenAI
• 23:18 - Vercel v. Cloudflare on X
• 31:20 - Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
• 39:18 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Vite 8 is out
• Jack - Jack joined Netlify and launches Netlify Start
• TJ - Node.js is changing their release schedule

Lightning News: 

• The dictionary sues OpenAI
• Quite the tweet from Sam Altman
• Vercel vs. Cloudflare on X

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Afrin nasal spray
• Jack - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die and Project Hail Mary
• TJ - One Piece live action series and college basketball

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JavaScript framework Eleventy has been renamed Build Awesome, 1.5 years after joining the Font Awesome stable. The name change precedes Build Awesome Pro, which will offer premium features alongside the features Eleventy users know and love. Today the Awesomeverse got a little awesomer.

The VoidZero team also open-sourced Vite+, which is a unified toolchain and entry point to web app development that manages runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain all in one.

Since being acquired by Cloudflare, the Astro team had their first big release with Astro 6.0, which includes a new dev server and build pipeline powered by Vite’s environment API so it can run the exact same production runtime during development. Other upgrades include a built-in Fonts API, request-time content, and a new experimental Rust compiler.

Timestamps:

• 0:54 - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome
• 5:40 - VoidZero announces Vite+ alpha
• 10:38 - Astro 6.0
• 15:39 - Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign
• 17:53 - The Chrome team is looking for feedback on focusgroup
• 20:31 - Updates to TanStack AI
• 22:21 - OpenClaw gripe with lack of permissions
• 27:22 - Moltbook get acquired by Meta
• 30:05 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Astro 6.0
• Jack - VoidZero announces Vite+ Alpha
• TJ - Eleventy becomes Build Awesome and the original Font Awesome Kickstarter video

Lightning News: 

• Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign
• The Chrome team is looking for feedback on focusgroup
• Upgrades to TanStack AI
• OpenClaw gripe with lack of permissions with v2026.3.2
• Moltbook is acquired by Meta

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Foundation TV series
• Jack - Taxes done with Firefly III
• TJ - Claude Code

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This week's a non-AI episode!

It’s been a minute since we last discussed Bun, but the team is back with a new release. In v1.3.10, the REPL’s completely rewritten in Zig, barrel imports are optimized, and the JavaScriptCore engine got upgraded for big perf gains.

Npmx, a fast, modern browser for the npm registry has reached alpha version in less than 2 months of existence. Its goal is to make it easy for devs to find, evaluate, and manage npm packages, and boasts cool features like the ability to compare packages and even launch demo environments directly from package READMEs. 

Solid 2.0.0 jumped straight from experimental to beta this week, and it introduces changes like: async is first-class, derived state is a primitive, dev guardrails to prevent foot guns, and a DOM cleanup model.

Timestamps:

• 2:04 - Bun v1.3.10
• 8:39 - npmx
• 13:03 - Solid 2.0 beta
• 22:42 - PlanetScale bought Drizzle ORM
• 23:46 - Safari is getting customizable s27:26 - Fire starter30:15 - What’s making us happyNews:Paige - npmxJack - Solid 2.0 betaTJ - Bun v1.3.10Lightning News: Safari is getting customizable s
• PlanetScale bought Drizzle ORM

Fire Starter:

• Navigation API is baseline available

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Kytin Parasole shoes
• Jack - Immich
• TJ - Stratechery’s coverage of the Anthropic v. DoW saga

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