News of the week of September 15, 2025: Shai-Hulud worm hits npm supply chain, WebAssembly 3 spec is ratified, and Elixir fans finally get their time in the spotlight. From the community: SquiggleConf was awesome, type branding and tuples, local-first app dev, and why @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show

News

• Socket.dev covers Shai-Hulud: 
  • Updated and Ongoing Supply Chain Attack Targets CrowdStrike npm Packages 
  • Popular Tinycolor npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack 
  • What the npm package attacks mean for us developers
• Wasm 3.0 spec completed
• Announcing AshTypeScript, part of the Ash Framework (Phoenix/Elixir)
• ts-to-zod now supports Zod 4.0
• Typebox 1.0 release

From the Community

• SquiggleConf Happened! Check out the streams (separate videos to come)
  • Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/C_ePbVZqXrw?si=MpRiE8n4xLNpfbV0
  • Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/live/vSXLDvvIpYE?si=cWKQTjZCx91HWJN9
• Federico (AzraelSec): Type Branding in Typescript 
• Renato: TypeScript Tuple Length 
• Evan Hahn: @ts-ignore is almost always the worst option
• Roadmap.sh: Everything You Need to Learn to be a TS Dev
• GitHub Actions can now run pure TS on Node 22/24 runners without a build step (h/t Brian Muenzenmeyer)
• Mathew Brown: Using Node's Test Runner with Typescript & React 
• Library Watch: Combinatorial CLI opt parsing
• Library Watch: Introducing: @traversable/valibot (h/t Andrew Jarret)
• Tool watch: FullStacked, a local-first app development environment
• Tool watch: Roguestrad, a Retro 3D Game engine forked from DOOM-3-BFG with TypeScript scripting support

Cool Stuff

• Funny Read: Is your son a computer hacker?
• Cool Lib: dom-to-image-more – render DOM elements as images
• Cool Tool:  Pages CMS - Hassle-free CMS for static sites powered by Git 

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Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)