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TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

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#158
Monday · 1 hr 2 min
158: The Browser Wars are Getting Weird
This week we dig into Cloudflare's new agent-only browser, Kitesurf, built for speed over polish. Cursor made waves by ditching Solid.js for React, and Jack brings back a field report from RenderATL on the state of dev conferences in 2026. Plus, in Lightning News: pnpm's Rust rewrite, Microsoft trimming its AI feature list, Claude tackling the Riemann hypothesis with 60 subagents, and a Claude agent that accidentally hacked into a gym's registration system. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf: an agent-first browser 8:08 - Cursor moves from Solid to React 17:08 - Render ATL recap 30:44 - pnpm 12 32:39 - Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features 36:24 - Claude, the Riemann hypothesis, and Jared Sumner? 42:37 - A Claude agent hacked into a gym 48:40 - What's making us happy News Paige: Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf: an agent-first browser Jack: Render ATL recap TJ: Cursor moves from Solid to React Lightning News Pnpm 12 is Rust Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features The weird Mico video Claude, the Riemann hypothesis, and Jared Sumner? A Claude agent hacked into a gym What's Making Us Happy Paige: ChatGPT Desktop App Jack: How dark is your movie & TV app TJ: The coolest scroll animation I've ever seen Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#157
August 10 · 57 min
157: Shai-Hulud Is Back From the Dead
Next.js is back after a quiet stretch with 16.3, promising "instant" navigations, leaner dev servers, better agent tooling, and faster builds. The TanStack crew keeps shipping too — TanStack Table hit v9.0 and TanStack AI is closing in on v1.0 with tool calling, reasoning, code sandboxes, and memory. Then there's the bad news: a new Shai-Hulud variant compromised a major maintainer and infected a pile of key-value storage and caching packages with over a billion combined monthly downloads. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - Next.js 16.3 9:22 - TanStack AI and TanStack Table 9.0 15:55 - Another npm supply chain attack 27:07 - An update on the Deno v. Oracle lawsuit 31:44 - Anthropic announced Claude broke containment too 37:41 - Google Earth has to roll back an AI feature 39:34 - An interesting Sam Altman tweet 46:27 - What's making us happy News Paige: Another day another npm supply chain attack Jack: TanStack AI and TanStack Table 9.0 TJ: Next.js 16.3 Lightning News Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Anthropic announced Claude broke containment too An update on the Deno v Oracle lawsuit Google Earth has to roll back an AI feature An interesting Sam Altman tweet What's Making Us Happy Paige: Ride or Die miniseries Jack: Shin Kamen Rider movie and Vibe Island TJ: OpenAI Shop and Perplexity Supply Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#156
August 3 · 1 hr 1 min
156: The State of CSS Is In
The State of CSS 2026 results are in — Tailwind still rules, AI still can't write decent CSS, and (thanks, listeners!) we made the resources list. CodePen ships its biggest update in years with CodePen 2.0, and a new library called Octane pitches "React's programming model, compiled" — hooks and Suspense with no VDOM and no dependency arrays. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:05 - State of CSS 2026 survey 20:01 - CodePen 2.0 32:55 - Octane JS framework 38:37 - State of Devs survey 2026 39:30 - LinkedIn adds a "Seems like AI slop" button 42:54 - TanStack rebrand, and a new charting library 45:38 - GitHub stacked pull requests 52:13 - Opus 5 54:27 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: State of CSS 2026 survey Jack: Octane JS framework TJ: CodePen 2.0 Lightning News State of Devs survey 2026 LinkedIn adds a "Seems like AI slop" button GitHub adds stacked pull requests TanStack rebrand & a new charting library Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model What's Making Us Happy Paige: His & Hers miniseries Jack: The Vampire Lestat miniseries TJ: Orbit Traveling Tractor Water Sprinkler Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#155
July 27 · 57 min
155: OpenAI Breaks Out of its Sandbox
We dig into how Bun went from Zig to Rust in just 11 days with an army of Claude sessions, check in on Kimi K3 — another open-weight Chinese model closing in on the frontier — and unpack the week's wildest story: an OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. Just another normal week in AI. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:05 - Kimi K3 10:58 - Rewriting Bun in Rust 20:42 - OpenAI hacks Hugging Face 39:48 - App Store number updates 42:11 - Meta's new app is set to a song about human extinction 46:50 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: Rewriting Bun in Rust Jack: Kimi K3 TJ: OpenAI hacks Hugging Face Lightning News App Store app numbers are way up; downloads are not Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction What's Making Us Happy Paige: The Bear season 5 Jack: The Odyssey movie TJ: Detroit Tigers baseball Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#154
July 21 · 1 hr 3 min
154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews
AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make AI-generated code less sloppy and reviews less painful — review tools, code-review skills, and the still-irreplaceable habit of smoke testing a PR yourself. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - How to not drown in code reviews 49:55 - What's Making Us Happy Links Anthropic: Recursive Self Improvement Spotify Engineering: Coding is No Longer the Constraint CodeRabbit Superpowers Amelia Wattenberger: how coding used to be how we thought What's Making Us Happy Paige: Chef's Choice Electric Knife Sharpener Jack: Cooper's Hawks TJ: Acadia National Park Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#153
July 13 · 47 min
153: Vercel Wants Your Entire Stack
Vercel goes all-in on your stack — a Zig-powered Native SDK for building desktop apps, plus Vercel Services to run multiple frameworks as one shared project for monorepo and microservice teams — while VoidZero ships Vite+ in beta to unify the entire frontend toolchain. Plus Safari joins the MCP party and Claude gets a little too chatty in Slack. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:59 - Vercel native 8:22 - Vite+ beta 10:15 - Vercel Services 16:50 - Safari MCP server 19:20 - Claude Tag 27:07 - Museum covers its floor in peanut butter 33:41 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: Vercel Services Jack: Vercel's native TJ: Vite+ beta Lightning News Safari MCP server Claude Tag Museum covers its floor in peanut butter What's Making Us Happy Paige: Dutton Ranch TV series Jack: Bowling TJ: The World Cup Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#152
July 6 · 54 min
152: The Fable Redemption Arc
Vercel partners with Shopify to rebuild Hydrogen, Anthropic re-releases Fable 5 (plus Sonnet 5) with a beefed-up safety classifier after its government timeout, and Meta open-sources Astryx, its React/StyleX design system Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:50 - Vercel and Shopify collab on Hydrogen 13:11 - A Fable 5 update 22:38 - Astryx 33:51 - Cloudflare to change its crawler policy 43:42 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: Fable 5's ban has been lifted & Sonnet 5 is out too Jack: Vercel and Shopify collab on Hydrogen TJ: Astryx Lightning News Cloudflare to change its crawler policy What's Making Us Happy Paige: Pink Starburst Vodka Lemonade Jack: Goodr sunglasses TJ: Rail Explorers Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#151
June 29 · 39 min
151: Fixing AI’s Microservices Problem
Nx debuts Polygraph, a "synthetic monorepo" that gives AI agents a unified view across microservice boundaries, Deno Desktop takes aim at Electron by compiling web projects into single-binary native apps, and fresh SignalFire hiring data shows engineers holding steady while designers and marketers take the cuts. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:41 - Polygraph meta-harness from the Nx folks 7:49 - Deno Desktop 12:39 - An update on the tech hiring landscape 24:42 - Dan Abramov joins Vercel 27:01 - Claude Code supports mouse clicks now 30:37 - Astro 7 31:08 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: Polygraph meta-harness from the Nx folks Jack: Deno 2.9 & Deno Desktop TJ: An update on the tech hiring landscape from SignalFire Lightning News Claude Code supports mouse clicks now (i.e. Fullscreen rendering) Dan Abramov joins Vercel Astro 7 What's Making Us Happy Paige: Dungeon Crawler Carl Jack: Bird nests TJ: Shuffleboard Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#150
June 22 · 1 hr
150: The Government Said “No Fable For You”
Anthropic's new Fable model gets pulled days after launch when the US government restricts foreign access, a fully open-source Chinese model claims Claude Opus-level benchmarks for a fraction of the price, and MDN ships an MCP server to keep AI agents current on the web platform. Plus npm 12's supply-chain crackdown and SpaceX's eye-popping $60B Cursor buy. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - Anthropic released Fable and the US government shut it down 13:51 - GLM-5.2 20:16 - MDN MCP Server 25:42 - npm 12's breaking changes 31:38 - SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B 39:13 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: MDN MCP Server Jack: GLM-5.2 TJ: Anthropic released Fable and the US shut it down days later Lightning News SpaceX bought Cursor for $60B npm 12 breaking changes What's Making Us Happy Paige: Newest season of Clarkson's Farm and World Cup international fans Jack: Portland Pickles TJ: Claude Cowork Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#149
June 15 · 51 min
149: Rise of the React Foundation
React officially leaves the Meta building to live under the new React Foundation (and the React Compiler gets rewritten in Rust), Apple's WWDC unveils a stacked Safari 27 beta, and Chrome DevTools 149 levels up its AI features. A jam-packed week in front-end news. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:27 - React is now officially owned by the React Foundation 3:07 - React Compiler is now in Rust 5:56 - Safari 27 beta 12:12 - DevTools 149 updates 23:46 - State of CSS survey 2026 27:54 - Fire Starter 32:15 - What's Making Us Happy News Paige: WebKit in Safari 27 beta Jack: React is now owned by the React Foundation & React Compiler is now in Rust TJ: DevTools 149 updates Lightning News State of CSS survey 2026 — go vote for us under your favorite web dev podcasts! Fire Starter Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm What's Making Us Happy Paige: Blocks of focus time Jack: AI is saving money and time — Burn Baby Burn TJ: Sports Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#148
June 8 · 58 min
148: The Bots Have Officially Taken Over
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#147
June 1 · 52 min
147: Vercel Made a Programming Language for Robots
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#146
May 25 · 52 min
146: Humans vs AI—Fight!
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#145
May 18 · 53 min
145: AI Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#144
May 11 · 57 min
144: Did Tanner Just Replace React?
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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#143
May 4 · 55 min
143: The AI Bill Is Due
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#142
April 27 · 55 min
142: Vercel Had a Week
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#141
April 21 · 1 hr 2 min
141: When AI Belongs in Products with Dan Wilson & Kyler Krenek
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#140
April 13 · 57 min
140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast
#139
April 6 · 36 min
139: Claude Code’s Secrets Are Out
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 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. Front-end Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast

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