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October 14Theo's $420K TS-Rust Port, bun check, and Deno Joins Cloudflare | News | Ep 85
News for the week of October 5, 2026: Theo spends $420,000+ porting the TypeScript compiler to Rust, the new Bun (type)check command claims 3-7x speedups, and Deno joins Cloudflare. From the community: ViteConf is October 15, GitHub moves off CSS-in-JS, and Syntax is donating.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Tooling: ts-rust, a Vibe Port of TypeScript 7 to Rust
(06:03) - Tooling: bun check, 2-7X Faster Type Checking in Bun 1.4.3
(10:07) - Tooling: bun Adds lint and format Commands, Forking oxlint and oxfmt
(11:27) - Tooling: terser Adds Erasable Types Support
(13:17) - Tooling: Node.js 26.11.0, New Docs and Benchmarking Perf Hooks
(15:22) - Frameworks: Next.js 16.4 Adds Cache Components Programming Model
(19:21) - Web Platform: Deno Joins Cloudflare, But Will No Longer Maintain the Runtime
(24:24) - Web Platform: Chrome 155+ Will Support JPEG XL
(26:12) - Security: Vite Dev Server CVE for Arbitrary Command Execution
(27:41) - Security: TanStack Start CVE for Reflected Cross-site Scripting
(28:37) - Security: zod and Other Packages Were Nearly Compromised
(30:38) - Security: New GhostAction Wave Steals Cloud and AI Credentials
(32:50) - Other News: Remembering Margaret Hamilton, Apollo Space Programmer
(33:14) - Library Watch: maligator, an AOT Compiler for JavaScript to C
(34:24) - Library Watch: fjson, a Friendly JSON-alike Language and Parser
(35:10) - Library Watch: logtape 2.4
(36:23) - Library Watch: plumeria, Type-safe Zero-runtime Atomic CSS
(37:02) - Community: ViteConf is October 15
(37:26) - Community: Syntax.fm Calling for Nominations to Fund OSS Maintainers
(37:48) - Community: GitHub is Switching from CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules
(40:13) - Community: Mark Built a JavaScript Runtime Over the Weekend Called Bento
(41:48) - Community: Grafana's Cuetsy and Thema TypeScript Code Generation
(42:26) - Bleet of the Week
(43:11) - Cool Event: Ludum Dare, Make a Game in 48 Hours
(44:02) - Cool Study: Where is the Bottleneck in Software Development and AI?
(45:46) - Cool Tool: TypeScript to Zod Schema Tool (and More!)
(46:40) - Cool Link: ascii.rest, Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
(48:22) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
Tooling
Theo: ts-rust
Bun: Bun 1.4.3
Terser: Experimental type erasure (via Rob Palmer)
Metaframeworks
Next.js: Next.js 16.4
Web Platform
Cloudflare: Deno joins Cloudflare
Node: Node.js 26.11.0 (Current)
Chrome: Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (155+)
Security Corner
VoidZero: Vite Dev Server security update
TanStack: TanStack Start security update: CVE-2026-102989
Zod: Security advisory: malicious npm package changes affecting zod, nub, and standard-schema
Socket: New GhostAction Wave Hits Hundreds of Repos, Expanding Beyond CI/CD Secrets to Cloud Credentials
Other news
MIT News: Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer, dies
Library Watch
Maligator: JS AOT to C compiler (GitHub)
fjson from Cinnamon: friendly JSON parser for TypeScript
LogTape: LogTape 2.4.0
Plumeria: type-safe CSS with a Rust compiler
From the Community
VoidZero: ViteConf is October 15th
Syntax.fm: Syntax is donating
GitHub: Switches from CSS-in-JS
Mark Malstrom: Bento, a JS runtime in a weekend
Sam Boyer: Grafana's schema-driven data language: Cuetsy and Thema (via Evangaline Rome)
Bleet of the Week: “Cloudflare” Meteor
Cool Links
Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production
TypeScript to Zod Schema
ASCII Rest
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
1 hr 14 min
October 09Vite+ 1.0, SvelteKit 3, and TanStack Charts 1.0 | News | Ep 84
News for the weeks of September 21 and 28, 2026: Vite+ 1.0 is now stable, SvelteKit 3 is finally here, TanStack has charts now, and why everyone is launching decision models. From the community: awesome TypeScript books, why you shouldn't be afraid of generics, and how Booking.com cut Node scaling costs by 38%.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Tooling: Vite+ 1.0 Stable Announced
(05:58) - Tooling: Introducing upm, a New Package Manager
(09:42) - Tooling: TanStack Charts 1.0 Announced
(12:08) - Metaframeworks: SvelteKit 3 is Here
(13:38) - Framework: Nuxt 4.6 Brings Nuxt CLI v4 and is Closer to Being Server Agnostic
(18:26) - Web Platform: ECMAScript Composites TC39 Proposal
(21:56) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Open Sources cf CLI and Forge
(25:40) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Introduces Clef, an Open Weights Decision Model
(30:41) - Web Platform: Chrome 154, Responsive iframes
(31:49) - Web Platform: Firefox 157's Fresh Design
(33:03) - Security: Next.js September 2026 Patches Available
(33:46) - Library Watch: Preact 11 - ESM-only, Hydration v2, Modern Diffing
(35:43) - Library Watch: Effect Module of the Week, RcMap
(36:35) - Library Watch: mimlet 0.1 for Testing with Mock Data
(37:33) - Library Watch: oxbox, a Tiny Portable Library for Parsing, Transforming JSX/TSX
(37:53) - Library Watch: safemods, Type-directed Code Mods for TS 7
(39:49) - Library Watch: GTKX, Linux desktop apps with React and JSX
(41:20) - Secret of the Handbook: Const Generics (Again)
(42:52) - Community: Angular's TypeScript 7-powered Compiler
(45:54) - Community: Josh Ghoulberg is Excited About no-unsafe-enum-assignments TS ESLint Rule
(47:02) - Community: Awesome TypeScript Books by tscollege
(48:19) - Community: Max Hurst Reassures Us Not to Be Afraid of Generics
(49:47) - Community: Dan Holloran on How to Clean Up Your TSConfig for TS7
(50:32) - Community: Rahul's Readable Regular Expressions Inspired by Emacs
(53:13) - Community: Razvan's Glossary of Programming Terms
(54:05) - Community: How Booking.com Scales Node.js and Cut Costs by 38%
(58:06) - Community: NOMIAD, an Open World Sci-Fi Game Written in WebGL and TypeScript
(59:05) - Community: Claude Mods Customize Your Clanker
(01:00:24) - Community: dsherret's TypeScript Factory Code Generator Generator
(01:01:18) - Community: Kris Jenkins Used SpaceTimeDB to Visualize Wikipedia Edits
(01:02:14) - Bleet of the Week
(01:02:49) - Cool Link: How to Render Text from Font Files by Jimmy Lefevre
(01:03:59) - Cool Prompt: Create a Trip Highlight Video
(01:10:02) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
VoidZero: Announcing Vite+ 1.0
Plus: ViteConf 2026 (October 15)
Socket: Introducing upm
TanStack: TanStack Charts 1.0 announced
SvelteKit: SvelteKit 3 is here
Nuxt: Nuxt 4.6
ECMAScript: TC39 Composites via Rob
Cloudflare: Open-sourcing cf and Forge
Cloudflare: Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Related: AWS launches a local answer to TypeSafe's Jev decision model
Chrome: New in Chrome 154
Mozilla: Firefox 157.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
Next.js: September 2026 Security Release
Library Watch
Preact 11: Post by @jovidecroock.com
Effect.ts Module of the Week: RcMap
Mimlet 0.1.0-beta.0: create mock test data
Safemods: type-directed code mods for TypeScript 7
GTKX: native Linux desktop apps with React
From the Community
Angular Team: An update on Angular’s TypeScript 7-powered Compiler
Josh Goldberg: typescript-eslint finally gets "no-unsafe-enum-assignments"
TScollege: Awesome TypeScript Books
Max Hurst: Do Not Be Afraid of Generics
Dan Halloran: Your tsconfig Is Still Written for TypeScript 5. Here's the Cleanup TS 7 Forces
Rahul M. Juliato: Readable Regular Expressions for JavaScript/TypeScript, Inspired by Emacs' rx
Razvan Muntian: a programming glossary
Booking.com: Node.js at scale, rebalanced: how we cut cost by 38%
NOMIAD: an open-world sci-fi game in WebGL written in TypeScript
Anthropic: Customize Claude Code with mods in TypeScript
David Sherret: TypeScript Compiler API Factory Code Generator Generator (via Evangaline Rome)
Kris Jenkins: SpaceTimeDB w/ TypeScript
Bleet of the Week
1 hr 18 min
October 01Type-aware Linting, Vite+, and the Future of Dev Tooling | VoidZero | Ep 83B
In this special episode, the two fools are joined by Cameron Clark and Jim Dummett from VoidZero (and now, Cloudflare) to talk about the latest developments in type-aware linting, Vite+ and the Vite ecosystem, and what the future of dev tooling looks like for TypeScript and JavaScript developers.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Introducing Cameron Clark and Jim Dummett
(04:55) - The VoidZero Acqui-hire
(11:47) - The Vite Toolchain
(16:04) - What Dark Magic Makes TypeScript Plugins Work with oxlint?
(23:42) - Type-aware Linting via Oxlint and TypeScript 7
(27:02) - Type-aware Linting is Now Stable, What Does That Mean?
(29:39) - Does TypeScript 7's Performance Unlock New Kinds of Lint Rules?
(33:13) - What is Coming Next to Dev Tooling?
(37:29) - How Can Dev Tools Help Optimize Agent Interactions?
(50:42) - Takeaways and Where to Follow Jim and Cameron
(57:09) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
Links
Cameron on GitHub
Jim's talk on oxc and type-aware linting
Vite+ (and 1.0 announcement)
Void Cloud
VoidZero Blog
oxlint plugin: anti-slop
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
1 hr 16 min
September 25Benchmarking in Node, Modern DOM Typings, and Jev the Type-safe AI | News | Ep 82
News for the week of Sep 14, 2026: latest Node 26 includes experimental benchmark tests, a modern drop-in replacement for DOM typings, and we try to understand Jev, bruv. From the community: how GitHub rewrote Copilot's runtime in Rust, learn about ESM, and why Shopify ditched React Native (spoiler: agents).
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(06:02) - Tooling: Node 26.9.0 Lets You Write Benchmarks with node:bench
(08:49) - Tooling: Jev, the Type-safe AI
(15:25) - Tooling: TypeScript 7 Works Around New Golang FMA Changes
(17:58) - Frameworks: GeaStack Compiles Typescript to Native Apps with C++
(20:00) - Frameworks: Ember 7.2, New Built-in Strict Resolver and ESM-only
(20:46) - Web Platform: Firefox 156, Can Now Open Automatically on macos
(21:21) - Security: Happy Birthday Shai-Hulud!
(22:17) - Security: GitHub Actions Tries to Limit Cache Poisoning Risk
(23:47) - Security: Gitea Affected by Severe RCE Vulnerability
(24:47) - Library Watch: modern-web-types Drop-in Replacement for DOM Typings
(26:52) - Library Watch: sqlbraid Lets You Write SQL and Keep TypeScript
(29:28) - Library Watch: temporal-parser, a Lexer and Parser for Temporal Expressions
(31:06) - Library Watch: Zod 4.6 Comes With Some Perf Improvements
(32:26) - Community: Puffball Explains How TypeScript 7 Creates Typed ASTs in Go
(33:44) - Community: ESModule.com, Learn About ES Modules
(34:47) - Community: cm.xyz Explains Why You'd Use Effect
(36:27) - Community: Porffor Can Compile TSC
(37:34) - Community: Stephen Toub on How GitHub Rewrote Copilot Runtime in Rust, with Copilot
(42:29) - Community: ecyrbe Creates Typeskell to Experiment with Typeclasses
(42:52) - Community: Barak's Complete Guide to HOCs with Next.js, React, and TS
(43:53) - Community: Orhun Interviews Sebastian from OpenTUI
(44:34) - Community: Shopify Switched Back to Swift and Kotlin from React Native
(48:07) - Bleet of the Week
(49:31) - Cool Link: Design Your Own Silicon Chip
(50:41) - Cool Link: The Essential Craftsman
(53:10) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
Node: 26.9.0
Syntax: Jev Explained: Demos and Use Cases
Jake Bailey: Go FMA’s introduce non-determinism
Geastack compiles TypeScript to native apps via C++
Ember: 7.2 released
Firefox: Firefox 156.0 release
Socket: Happy Birthday, Shai-Hulud
GitHub: Control GitHub Actions cache access with cache-mode
Gitea RCE Vulnerability: Ed from Low Level's update on git situation
Library Watch
modern-web-types is a drop-in replacement for dom typings with modern APIs
Clickin/SQLBraid: Write SQL. Keep TypeScript. Skip the query-builder translation layer
taskade/temporal-parser: A lexer and parser for temporal expressions
Zod 4.6 perf fixes and Zod Mini standalone
From the Community
iamstan.dev: ES Modules via James
Puffball: Inside TypeScript 7's Go Port: Designing Typed AST Nodes Without a Giant Struct
cm.xyz: Understanding Why You'd Use Effect.ts
Porffor: TSC compiled with Porffor
Stephen Toub: Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
Typeskell is a cursed project
Burak.dev: The Complete Guide to HOCs in Next.js with React and TypeScript
Interview with OpenTUI https://bsky.app/profile/orhun.dev/post/3mvlg6qrwls2u
Shopify: Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
Bleet of the Week
XKCD comic: guaranteed to be random
Cool Links
Designing Silicon From Scratch
Dr.Semiconductor - YouTube
Essential Craftsman – absolute gold carpentry tips
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
1 hr 8 min
September 17React 19.3, Safari 27 & Chrome 153 Loot Drops, and Cloudflare's New Worker Module Registry | News | Ep 81
News for the week of Sep 7, 2026: new browser loot drops in Chrome 153 and Safari 27, React 19.3 lets you control view transitions, and how Cloudflare rewrote the workers module registry for better Node.js compatibility. From the community: why nobody pays OSS projects, interactively learn Effect, and the motivation behind Zena the Warrior Princ--er, a new programming language inspired by TypeScript.
Partake in the No Sloptober Challenge!
Head to no-sloptober.com to read the manifesto and see if you can challenge yourself to turn off LLMs and AI for October.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:11) - Tooling: React 19.3
(08:50) - Tooling: React Compiler is in Vite 8 via oxc
(10:17) - Web Platform: Chrome 153 Brings (Proper) Single-axis Scroll Support
(12:04) - Web Platform: Safari 27 First to Add Import Defer Support
(17:04) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Turns Node Compatibility On By Default
(20:42) - Library Watch: srvquery, Fully-typed Library for Browsing Game Servers
(21:32) - Library Watch: microlighter, Zero Dependency Syntax Highlighter Using CSS Highlights API
(23:15) - Library Watch: mcp-tada, Turn a MCP Client Into a Typed API
(25:22) - Library Watch: upyo, Cross-runtime Email Sender
(26:51) - Community: Laurie Voss Explains How We Can Force Companies to Pay for Open Source
(33:35) - Community: Kit Langton Made an Interactive Intro to Effect.ts
(34:52) - Community: Dan Holloran Advocates for Using the Built-in node:test Runner
(36:45) - Community: Pablo Androetto Ported Thousands of Windows Games to the Browser in Excalibur.js
(38:07) - Community: Dimitri Metropoulos Helps You Solve TS Performance Problems
(39:19) - Community: Hexagon Hunt-and-Kill Maze Using Mazely
(39:48) - Community: Justin Fagnani Explains Why He Made Zena, a TypeScript-inspird Programming Language
(42:12) - Bleet of the Week
(43:02) - Cool Link: Undisputed Authority with Roger Martin
(46:42) - Cool Link: Fresh is a Powerful Terminal Text Editor and IDE
(48:15) - Cool Link: How to Build Weighted Loot Tables
(48:45) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
Tooling: React 19.3
Tooling: What's New: August 2026 from VoidZero
Web Platform: New in Chrome 153
Web Platform: Safari 27 Release Notes
Web Platform: How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility
Library Watch
Srvquery: fully-typed library for browsing game servers
microlighter: zero-dep syntax highlighter using CSS Highlights API
mcp-tada: create typed APIs for a MCP client
Upyo: runtime-agnostic email sending library
From the Community
Laurie Voss: Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
Kit Langton: Learn Effect.ts
Dan Holloran: node:test is the test runner you already have installed
Pablo Androetto: Game Preservation
Dimitri Mitropoulos:Solving Your TypeScript Performance Problems - Dimitri Mitropoulos
Wujue: A hexagon hunt-and-kill maze using Mazely
Justin Fagnani: Zena: TypeScript like language
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
Get the Fresh editor in the terminal
Two Ways to Roll Weighted Loot
Undisputed Authority: Roger Martin
Brett Codes: I'm done using AI
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
57 min
September 15Vitest 5, rslib 1.0, and the No Sloptober Challenge | News | Ep 80
News for the week of Aug 31, 2026: Vitest 5's new doctor command and perf enhancements, Rslib is now stable, and Astro 7.3 lets you run multiple preview servers at once. From the community: build circuit boards in React, TypeScript for Ruby devs, and another compile-time crime of implementing Brainf*** in TypeScript types.
Partake in the No Sloptober Challenge!
Head to no-sloptober.com to read the manifesto and see if you can challenge yourself to turn off LLMs and AI for October.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:51) - Personal Challenge: No Sloptober
(10:53) - Tooling: Strongly-typed Normalized File Paths in the TS Codebase
(13:05) - Tooling: Ember for TS 7 Declared Ready
(14:23) - Tooling: Bun 1.4.1 Now Types Import Attributes in TS 7.1 Nightly
(14:49) - Tooling: Vitest 5 Brings Trace View, Doctor, and Temporal Mocking
(17:08) - Tooling: rslib 1.0, like TSDown But Built on rspack
(20:41) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.3 Can Run Multiple Preview Servers at Once
(21:16) - Security: Outsource Vulnerability Remediation to Cloudflare's Managed Defense
(24:08) - Library Watch: Starlight 0.42
(25:17) - Library watch: HQTUI, a High Quality Terminal UI
(26:08) - Library Watch: tsmc, a TypeScript Runtime Written in minc
(27:27) - Library Watch: tscircuit, React for Electronics
(29:01) - Library Watch: jasypdf, Declarative PDFs in Pure TypeScript
(30:04) - Library Watch: @stdlib/stdlib, Fundamental Numerical Library for JS and TS
(30:24) - Library Watch: RetroImgHandler Can Decode, Validate, Convert, Preview, and Encode Retro Graphics
(31:12) - Library Watch: causewalk, Inner Exception Unwrapping
(33:12) - Library Watch: numpy-ts 1.7.0 is Now Faster Than Native NumPy
(34:12) - Community: Kev Helps Ruby Devs Learn TypeScript
(34:48) - Community: Hugo Wrote Brainf*** in TypeScript Types
(36:23) - Community: How Turbopack Chunks Your JavaScript by Next.js
(36:52) - Community: How Next.js Closed 1500 GitHub Issues in One Month
(38:32) - Community: What's New in Svelte, Aug 2026
(38:52) - Community: David Dal Busco Wrote Two Tiny Utils for the Result Pattern
(40:54) - Community: Matt Pocock Praises Effect.ts for Backends
(41:38) - Bleet of the Week
(42:26) - Cool Link: Bookmarklet to Open a New Tab Next to the Current One
(44:25) - Cool Link: Understanding TETRIS as a Game Developer
(45:59) - Cool Link: Orbliterate! A Game That Uses CAD for Level Design
(47:03) - The Minnesota Short Goodnight
News
TypeScript: Strongly Typed paths example
Ember for TS 7 declared ready
Bun v1.4.1
Vitest 5.0 is out
Rslib 1.0 is out
Astro 7.3 – run multiple preview servers at once
Cloudflare: Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation
Library Watch
Starlight 0.42 documentation using Astro
HQTUI: A high-quality terminal UI library
TSMC: A TypeScript runtime written in minc
TSCircuit: React for electronic circuit boards
JASYPdf: Declarative PDFs in pure TypeScript
Stdlib: Numerical and scientific funamental standard library for JS/TS
RetroImgHandler: Encodes, decodes retro graphics
Causewalk: Think inner exception unwrapping
Numpy: 1.7.0 numpy-ts is faster than native Numpy
From the Community
Kev: TypeScript for Ruby devs · codingpaws
Hugo: Brainf*** written in TS types
Next: How Turbopack chunks your JavaScript
Next: How we closed 1,500 GitHub issues in one month
Svelte: What’s new in Svelte: September 2026
David Dal Busco: Two Tiny Utils for the Result Pattern
Effect: Matt Pocock praises Effect.ts
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
Bookmarklet from Dr. Axel: Open new tabs next to current
Understanding TETRIS As a Game Developer
Orbliterate! uses parametric CAD for levels with TypeScript scripting for game logic
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
53 min
September 03pnpm 12, htmx 4, and Release Candidates for Remix 3 and Waku 1 | News | Ep 79
News for the week of August 24, 2026: pnpm 12 brings a bunch of quality of life updates, htmx 4 makes attribute inheritance easier, and both Remix and Waku get release candidates. From the community: type-level dice rolls (what!), full-stack type safety for TS and .NET, and committing compile-time crimes.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:19) - Tooling: TypeScript Repo Migrated to TS 7
(06:31) - Tooling: Ambient Module Declarations for Import Attributes in TS 7
(08:02) - Tooling: Porforr Alpha is Out
(10:21) - Tooling: pnpm 12 Brings a Long List of Updates
(14:37) - Frameworks: Ember is Now Supported in TS 7 Nightly
(15:06) - Frameworks: htmx 4 Released
(19:09) - Frameworks: Remix 3 Release Candidate is Here
(20:50) - Frameworks: Waku 1.0 Release Candidate is Here
(21:53) - Web Platform: WebMCP Challenge by Netlify
(22:48) - Web Platform: Chrome 152 Brings CPU Performance API, Connection Allowlists
(25:54) - Web Platform: Firefox 155, Now with Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Support
(27:45) - Web Platform: Firefox on iOS Can Now Block Ads
(28:02) - Security: Next.js August 2026 Security Releases
(29:19) - Security: Nuxt August 2026 Security Releases
(30:42) - Security: Mini Shai-Hulud on OpenAPI React Query Codegen Packages
(31:44) - Library Watch: minitype, Japanese Language Typesetting
(32:40) - Libary Watch: Joist ORM 2.3, Now with Rails-style Scopes
(33:51) - Library Watch: vgpu, a TypeScript Library for WebGPU
(34:51) - Library Watch: drdice, Deterministic Dice Rolls... in Types
(36:48) - Community: John Reilly's TS Migration Benchmark Harness
(38:43) - Community: Josh Goldberg Interviews Daniel Rosenwasser on TS 7 and What Comes Next
(39:02) - Community: Jake Archibald on Controlling When CSS Custom Properties are Computed
(39:25) - Community: Niklas Bruhn Teaches Us Lean, Explained with TypeScript
(41:58) - Community: Nx on Full Stack Type-safety with .NET
(43:42) - Community: 6 AppSec CTOs Debate Supply Chain Attacks
(44:19) - Community: dearlordylord on Branded Types and the Connascence of Execution
(46:41) - Community: Hugo Vilela Committed Some Compiler-time Crimes
(47:26) - Community: Amin Khansari Talks About Designing with Types
(48:55) - Community: Remo Jansen on RFLCT, Runtime Type Metadata in TS 7
(50:53) - Community: Ghostty in the Browser with gespenst.dev
(51:20) - Community: Jack LaFound Uses TS to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates
(51:58) - Bleet of the Week
(52:17) - Cool Link: Now THAT's a Big Dragon Game on Steam
(52:41) - Cool Link: Venkat Subramaniam on AI Coding
(55:42) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
Tooling: Main TypeScript repo migrated to TS 7
Tooling: Ambient Module Declarations for Import Attributes (formerly known as Import Assertions)
Tooling: Porforr Alpha is out
Tooling: pnpm 12 gets a bunch of updates!
Ember: supported in TS 7
htmx: htmx 4.0.0 has been released!
Remix: Remix 3 Release Candidate
Waku: Waku 1.0 (RC)
Netlify: OpenAI WebMCP Challenge: Build with Netlify
Chrome: Chrome 152 released
Firefox: Firefox 155.0 released
Plus: Reduce clutter and distractions with Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
Security Corner
Next.js: August 2026 Security Release
Nuxt: Nuxt Security Patch Releases
Socket: Mini Shai-hulud compromise of OpenAPI packages
Library Watch
Minitype: Japanese TypeSetting in TypeScript
Joist ORM: Joist 2.3 Released with Rails-style Scopes!
vercel-labs/vgpu: a TypeScript library for WebGPU
Reminds us of twigl
dearlordylord/drdice: Type-level dice rolling
From the Community
John Reilly: Benchmark Harness
Josh Goldberg w/Daniel Rosenwasser: TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
Jake Archibald: Controlling when CSS custom properties are computed
Niklas Bruhn: Lean explained with TypeScript
Nx: Polyglot monorepos
Secure Disclosure Podcast: 6 AppSec CTOs Debate Open Source Supply Chain Security at Black Hat
Igor (dearlordylord): Branded types and the connascence of execution
Hugo Vilela: I Patched the TypeScript Compiler to Add Up Nine Numbers
Amin Khansari: Series: Designing with Types: A TypeScript + Effect Approach
Remo H. Jansen: RFLCT: Bringing Runtime Type Metadata to TypeScript 7 - DEV Community
Ghostty in the Browser: gespenst
Jack LaF...
1 hr 7 min
August 28Bun 1.4, SolidStart v2, and SvelteKit v3 RC | News | Ep 78
News for the weeks of Aug 10 and 17, 2026: major version releases from Bun, ElectroBun, SolidStart, and SvelteKit along with Aspire 13.5, which makes TypeScript app hosts generally available. From the community: self-hosted Durable Objects, anti-slop lint rules, hiding internal state in TS objects, and the true cost of AI coding.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(05:32) - Tooling: Content Mappers Merged Into TS 7.1 API
(07:20) - Tooling: Bun 1.4, the One with Rust
(10:27) - Tooling: Aspire 13.5, TypeScript App Hosts Now GA
(13:13) - Metaframeworks: SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is Here
(15:33) - Metaframeworks: SolidStart V2 is Now Stable
(17:24) - Web Platform: celld, Self-Hosted Workers and Durable Objects
(19:02) - Web Platform: Cloudflare Announces $1 Million in Open Source Funding
(20:36) - Web Platform: Node.js Interactive 2026 Talks
(22:37) - Web Platform: Netlify Source for Hosting Git Version Control
(24:20) - Security: Popular Rust Crates Compromised
(25:29) - Library Watch: Slonick, a Node.js Postgres Client
(27:12) - Library Watch: deopt, Analyze Node.js and V8 De-optimizations
(29:15) - Library Watch: Electrobun 2, Now with a Custom Runtime
(35:24) - Library Watch: Anti-slop Lint Rules
(36:54) - Library Watch: yavascript Builds Cross-platform Bash-like Script Runners
(38:46) - Community: Ryan Peterman Interviews Anders Heijlsberg
(39:20) - Community: Matt Pocock Interviews Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI
(39:43) - Community: Josh Goldberg Steps Back from OSS
(41:21) - Community: Academind Teaches Us About Self-hosted Durable Objects
(41:32) - Community: Remco Wrote an MDX Content Mapper for TS 7
(42:28) - Community: Feross Aboukhadijeh on How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
(43:26) - Community: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript
(44:50) - Community: Scott Tolinksi on the True Cost of AI Coding
(45:53) - Community: Carlos Menezes on Hiding Internal State in TS Objects
(48:10) - Community: Tommy Rossi's Manifesto on Errors as Values in TS
(49:58) - Community: Brett Codes on How to Make TypeScript and JavaScript Error Handling Better
(50:34) - Community: Tero Piirainen Thinks the Bun 1.4 Rust Rewrite is Not Looking Good
(52:08) - Community: GameDev.js Survey 2026 is Open
(52:32) - Bleet of the Week
(54:04) - Cool Link: Don't Paste the AI
(59:14) - Cool Link: Local-first Landscape
(01:00:34) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
TypeScript: Content Mappers merged into 7.1 branch
Bun: Bun 1.4 (Video: Bun v1.4 )
Aspire: What's new in Aspire 13.5
Svelte: The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here
Solid: SolidStart v2 is now Stable
Deno: celld, self-host your own Durable Objects
Cloudflare: Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
Node.js: Node.js Interactive 2026: A Recap
Netlify Source: The full power of Git, without the friction: A conversation with Netlify CTO Dana Lawson
Socket: Popular Rust Crates Compromised in Build-Time Supply Chain Attack
Library Watch
gajus/slonik: A Node.js PostgreSQL client with runtime and build time type safety, and composable SQL
deopt: Analyze Node.js and V8 de-optimizations
Electrobun 2.0 comes with a new purpose-built runtime and CLI
Anti-slop lint rules
Biome https://github.com/kualta/anti-slop
Oxlint https://github.com/dmmulroy/anti-slop
YavaScript lets you build cross-platform Bash-like script runners
From the Community
Ryan Peterman: Creator of TypeScript: 10x Faster Typescript, Why AI Won't Replace SWEs | Anders Hejlsberg
Matt Pocock: Uncle Bob on Software Fundamentals in the Age of AI
Josh Goldberg: Stepping Back from Open Source (Mostly) | Goldblog
Josh Goldberg: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuakgoldberg.com/post/3mtehtwtyrs2i
Academind: Self-hosted durable objects are pretty interesting!
Remco: mdx-content-mapper for TS 7
Feross Aboukhadijeh: How AI Agents Expand the Software Supply Chain Attack Surface
Reddit: I would like to personally apologize to the creators of TypeScript
Scott Tolinski: The True Cost of AI Coding
Carlos Menezes: Hiding internal state in TypeScript objects
Tommy Rossi: Errors as Values in TypeScript
Brett Codes: TypeScript & JavaScript error handling is pretty bad (and how to make it better)
Tero Piirainen: Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
1 hr 10 min
August 13Astro 7.2, Stacked Pull Requests, and Eradicating any Using oxlint | News | Ep 77
News for the week of August 3, 2026: Astro 7.2 adds incremental static builds, SvelteKit 3 preview, and a closer look at TypeScript 7.1 compiler APIs. From the community: build your own "isThingy" type guards, eliminating 'any' types using oxlint, and how it went adding Go's defer keyword to TypeScript.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy

Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(06:32) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 API Feature Roadmap
(11:34) - Metaframeworks: Astro 7.2 Introduces Experimental Incremental Static Builds
(12:44) - Metaframeworks: Sweltering Updates in SvelteKit 3 Preview
(14:14) - Web: Cloudflare Open Sources an Issue Triage Agent
(18:16) - Web: GitHub Now Supports Stacked Pull Requests
(22:24) - Library Watch: zodql, Enforce Zod Schemas for GraphQL
(24:11) - Library Watch: TanStack Form v2 is in Alpha
(26:17) - Library Watch: TanStack Table V9
(28:08) - Library Watch: is-kit Lets You Build Your Own Type Guards
(29:23) - Library Watch: typesafe-ts is Like a Toned Down Effect
(31:14) - Library Watch: antiox, Rust-like Async Primitives for TypeScript
(33:08) - Library Watch: apiful, a Fetch Client You Compose
(33:53) - Community: Andrew Healey Adds Go's defer Keyword to TypeScript
(36:24) - Community: Mastodon Upgrades to TypeScript 7
(36:57) - Community: Next.js on How They Made Navigations Instant in v0
(39:14) - Community: Mauro Bieg on How to Build a TypeScript Web Framework With No Build Step
(39:52) - Community: Sam Rose Found a Bug in Kubernetes Thanks to Webernetes
(41:35) - Community: afox.dev Releases Luna.nvim, a Minimal Neovim Theme
(42:32) - Community: Silvenon's Oxlint Config to Eradicate any in Your Codebase
(43:23) - Bleet of the Week
(44:21) - Cool Link: tuicr Lets You View Side-by-Side PR Diffs in Your Terminal
(46:12) - Cool Link: Green Building Advisor
(48:17) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
TypeScript: API feature roadmap #4830 - microsoft/typescript-go
Astro 7.2 brings incremental static builds
What’s new in Svelte: August 2026
Cloudflare: How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero
GitHub: ICYMI, Stacked pull requests
Library Watch
zodql: Enforce Zod schemas for your GraphQL
Plus: https://github.com/enormora/schema-hub
Plus: gql.tada
TanStack Forms v2: Form v2 is here: All you need to know about the alpha
TanStack Table v9: Announcing TanStack Table V9
is-kit: Build isThingy style type guards
typesafe-ts (via Allan Duetsch): Runtime typesafety helpers
antiox: Rust like async primitives for Typescript
apiful: a fetch client you compose
From the Community
Andrew Healey: Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler
Mastodon: Now written in TS7
Next: Making Navigations Instant in v0
Mauro Bieg: A TypeScript web framework with no build step
Sam Rose: Found a bug in kubernetes
Luna.nvim: Minimal colorscheme for TS
Matija Marohnić: Eradicate as any with oxlint
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
GitHub - agavra/tuicr: a code review TUI with vim keybindings ("tweaker")
Green Building Advisor for all your high-performance building needs
Discord: Kamran's backyard studio build thread
Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)
1 hr 4 min
August 07TS 7 Compiler API Plans, Elysia 2 Beta, and JSX in ASP.NET Core | News | Ep 76
News for the week of July 27, 2026: insights into what's coming in TS 7.1, rendering JSX and TSX natively using ASP.NET Core, and Elysia gets rewritten with the new v2 beta. From the community: semantic versioning spec for types, a typesafe TSConfig builder, and lessons learned migrating ts-loader with AI.
Kamran's New Course: React 19 Security and Safety
Watch on Pluralsight. Learn how to deal with and protect yourself from real-world threats like XSS, CSRF, and supply chain attacks with full-stack React applications.
Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the free and open source friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. Learn to make web games with TypeScript or JavaScript! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, and first-party plugins for popular 2D gamedev tools.
Homepage and Docs: https://excaliburjs.com
Make Your First Game in 10 Minutes
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/9UemP985Uy
Chapters
(00:00) - Welcome to the Show
(04:53) - Tooling: TypeScript 7.1 Iteration Plan
(07:29) - Tooling: TypeScript ESLint Still Needs TS 6 For Now
(09:02) - Tooling: Emacs TypeScript LSP Fixed
(09:24) - Tooling: JsxCore is a Native JSX/TSX View Engine for ASP.NET Core
(12:50) - Tooling: Notion as Code (in TypeScript)
(14:31) - Metaframeworks: Nuxt July Security Patches
(15:22) - Metaframeworks: Elysia 2 Beta is a Full Rewrite
(18:08) - Web: Cloudflare Workers RPC Now Works Across Python and JavaScript
(21:00) - Web: Chrome 151 Adds User Media Element
(23:56) - Security: Ongoing npm Supply Chain Attack for keyv and cacheable Scopes
(25:56) - Security: Node July Security Releases
(26:24) - Library Watch: semver-ts, a Spec for Versioning Types
(28:03) - Library Watch: JS2WASM Compiler is in the Experimental Phase
(30:40) - Library Watch: PeurTS, Write TS in Unity, Unreal, and .NET
(32:03) - Library Watch: dynwinrt, Mess with WinRT APIs in TypeScript
(34:16) - Library Watch: syt, Type-safe TSConfig Builder
(35:09) - Library Watch: rm-pushnotify, Cross-browser Push Notifications
(37:05) - Library Watch: mazely, a Maze Editor and Solver in TypeScript
(38:05) - Library Watch: inclusive-color, a Color Space for Human Skin Colors
(39:00) - Community: Are the Types Wrong?
(39:58) - Community: John Reilly Migrated ts-loader to TypeScript 7
(41:16) - Community: Jake Worth Shares Daily TypeScript Notes in Your Inbox
(42:13) - Community: Tabularis Ported Their Visual EXPLAIN Rust Parsers to TypeScript
(43:14) - Community: Jake Archibald Wants Us to Learn From His Tool Tip Accessibility Mistake
(44:57) - Community: Debugging TypeScript Applications Book by Andrey Ozornin
(45:50) - Community: David Sherret Made TS AST Viewer Support TS 7
(46:42) - Bleet of the Week
(48:48) - Cool Link: Reliability Lessons from SQLite by Richard Hip
(51:24) - Cool Link: Why I Delete My Tests Every Night by KCD
(52:02) - Cool Link: Nirvanna the Band the Show
(54:23) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye
News
TypeScript: 7.1 iteration plan
PSA TS 6/7 - typescript-eslint and others that depend on compiler apis
emacs LSP fixed
JsxCore: Native JSX + Preact/React support for ASP.NET Core MVC
Notion: In beta, Notion as code
Nuxt: Nuxt Security Patch Releases
Elysia: Elysia 2 beta - DayDream
Cloudflare: Workers RPC now works across Python and JavaScript
Chrome: New in Chrome 151
Socket: Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack
Node: July Security Releases
Library Watch
semver-ts: Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types
JS2: JS to WASM AOT Compiler
Puerts: TS in Unreal Engine or Unity in TS!?!
dynwinrt: Mess with WinRT APIs using TS
syt: a typesafe builder for tsconfigs (via domutala)
rm-pushnotify: Browser push notifications library
Mazely: Maze editor and generation in TS
Inclusive Color: Inclusive human skin color space
From the Community
Are The Types Wrong: Tool for checking declaration files
John Reilly: Migrating ts-loader to TypeScript 7.1 with AI
Jake Worth: TypeNotes – Daily learning notes for TS and JS developers
Tabularis: Visual EXPLAIN beyond the app: one engine, multiple hosts (c/w LLM-assisted)
Jake Archibald: Fixing my tooltip accessibility mistake
Andrey Ozornin: Debugging TypeScript Applications: Build Web Apps That Don't Break
David Sheeret: TS Ast viewer supports 7
Bleet of the Week
Cool Links
Take some lessons from Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026
You should watch Nirvana the Band the Show
Stop Being Tricked by theprimeagen
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1 hr 3 min

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