Front-End Fire

In this episode: people are still writing new programming language, Microsoft is going all "developers, developers, developers" again, and bots are apparently outnumbering humans on the web now.
Timestamps:
1:55 - Bot traffic has passed human traffic
5:28 - The Jam programming language
12:04 - Jack at Microsoft Build
29:26 - Cloudflare bought VoidZero
34:46 - Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud
38:39 - Anthropic wants AI dev to slow down
41:35 - Someone used a Waymo in a robbery
46:47 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - There’s a new programming language called Jam
Jack - Microsoft Build coverage
TJ - Bot web traffic has passed human web traffic
Lightning News: 
Red Hat is the latest victim of Shai Hulud on npm
Anthropic wants AI development to slow down for the public good
Police have yet to catch a thief who used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes
Cloudflare bought VoidZero
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - For All Mankind TV series
Jack - Custom Microsoft swag
TJ - Claude Desktop Buddy
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In this episode npm implements staged publishing, Deno is patrolling your claws, and Vercel has a new agent-first language.
Timestamps:
0:58 - npm staged publishing
4:52 - Claw Patrol
11:00 - zerolang
20:18 - Wordpress 7.0
23:46 - Dr. Axel takes down his blog and books
33:31 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - zerolang, an agent first programming language
Jack - Claw Patrol
TJ - npm staged publishing
Lightning News: 
Wordpress 7.0 and AI
Dr. Axel takes down his blog and books
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - St. Augustine Old Town Trolley Tours and the Porsche Performance Track Experience
Jack - Shokz OpenDots headphones
TJ - NBA Jam lead designer was a Pistons fan
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On this episode: Rust has another convert, npm takes another stab at stopping the hackers, and Jack had a coding battle against robots.
Timestamps:
1:00 - Bun switches to Rust
6:45 - Jack’s battle against AI on Greenfield Games
16:01 - npm RFC to block install scripts
22:10 - State of Web Dev AI survey results
37:10 - Mark Erikson joins the AI revolution
41:45 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Bun, but in Rust
Jack - Jason Lengstorf’s Greenfield Games TV show
TJ - npm RFC to block install scripts
Lightning News: 
State of Web Dev AI survey results
Mark Erikson joins the AI revolution
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - Riding in Waymos
Jack - Wilma the Bat Dog for the Portland Pickles
TJ - Dungeon Crawler Carl book series
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In this episode: An IDE written in Rust hits 1.0; more vulnerabilities, this time in TanStack and Next.js; and the AI layoffs continue—we’ll discuss whether you should be worried.
Timestamps:
0:46 - Alternative editor Zed hits 1.0
10:48 - AI layoffs
24:12 - TanStack’s CI pipeline was compromised
30:01 - Another Next.js vulnerability
31:46 - Tailwind 4.3 adds new scrollbar utilities
35:03 - Fire Starter: The new install element
41:22 - What’s making us happy
News:
Paige - Alternative editor Zed hits 1.0
Jack - Not even TanStack is safe from npm hacks and another Next.js vulnerability
TJ - Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees & Cisco lays off 4,000 employees
Lightning News: 
Tailwind 4.3 adds new scrollbar utilities
Fire Starter:
<install>
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
Paige - The Porsche Track Experience
Jack - Porch planets project
TJ - Chilipad mattress topper
Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.
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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

Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.
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