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I think you could probably go back and track the stages of grief, probably that is what I went through. But I think if you do it right, you end up at acceptance. And that's where I ended up. And that's not to say that I've fully accepted the idea that the golden toad is extinct. Personally, I do still hold out hope that it could still be out there in those forests." - Trevor Ritland This conversation is with Trevor Ritland, who—along with his twin brother Kyle—authored The Golden Toad . The book chronicles their remarkable journey into Costa Rica’s cloud forest, once home to hundreds of brilliant golden toads that would emerge for just a few weeks each year—until, one day, they vanished without a trace. What began as a search for a lost species soon became something much more profound: a confrontation with ecological grief, a meditation on hope, and a powerful call to protect the natural world while we still can. Links: SpeciesUnite.com Kyle and Trevor: https://kyleandtrevor.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureterm/ Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222249677-the-golden-toad Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Toad-Ecological-Mystery-Species/dp/163576996…
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The field of AI coding agent CLIs is crowded and getting more so by the day, and our co-host Jack has tried them all so you don’t have to. The big four are: OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Gemini Code, and Amazon Q, along with some lesser known CLIs like AmpCode, OpenCode, and (the already shut down) Anon Kode. After trying everything, Jack says Anthropic’s Sonnet models and Claude Code are still the best. Google’s quietly been working on new LLM-powered web APIs that rely on Google’s Gemini Nano model to power browser features like language detection and translation, and writing and proofreading, and Mozilla is concerned devs will create apps based on Gemini’s behavior. Less than two months after Figma’s big Config conference, it shared it's acquired OS headless CMS Payload. Continuing the effort to make Figma a central hub for digital product creation, Figma’s adding a CMS to the mix so marketers and designers can more easily update website content as needed. Timestamps: 1:01 - Jack’s AI tool roundup 10:34 - Mozilla’s concerns about Google building AI into Chrome 19:16 - Figma buys Payload 24:22 - Firefox gets vertical tabs 27:15 - Jack’s macOS 26 experiment goes wrong 30:36 - Anthropic destroys millions of print books 38:06 - What’s making us happy Links: Paige - Figma buys CMS Payload Jack - State of the AI CLIs: Codex , OpenCode , AmpCode , Gemini Code , Claude Code , Amazon Q TJ - Mozilla’s concerns about Google building AI into Chrome Lightning News: Firefox v140 Jack's MacOS 26 upgrade gone wrong Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Rock Paper Scissors novel Jack - Tamolitch Falls and Final Destination movie series TJ - Watkins Glen State Park 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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1 Oxlint 1.0: The Linter That Leaves ESLint in the Dust 35:29
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In this episode: Linting is getting a whole lot faster with Oxlint Your browser is becoming part of your wellness routine And Copilot is getting more agentic features Chapter Markers: 1:05 - Oxlint 7:05 - Opera Air 11:24 - GitHub Copilot coding agent 18:45 - More Remix v3 updates 23:56 - What makes us happy Links: Paige - void0's Oxlint 1.0 Jack - Wellness stuff in Opera’s Air Browser TJ - GitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview Lightning News: Remix v3 goes further off the rails, names itself “spiritual successor to the web” What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - ALookBackInHistory Instagram account Jack - Spiritfarer game TJ - Formula 1: Drive to Survive TV 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…
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1 Rolldown-Vite: Evan You Just Made Vite 16x Faster 44:01
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We first reported on Evan You’s company void0 back in October, 2024, and now Evan and co are making good on their promise to rework the entire JS toolchain from the ground up with the release of Rolldown-Vite. The new package is a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler we all know and love, with benefits like production build time reductions of up to 16x and memory usage decreases of up to 100x. Replacement is easy and the perf gains are real. Try it today. Apple just held WWDC25 and announced big updates in Safari 26 beta. Favicons get replaced with SVG icons, any website can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS, there’s a brand new HTML element for visionOS, CSS anchor positioning for popovers is supported as well as scroll-driven animations, and much more. Suffice it to say, Safari’s got some slick new features under the hood. The jury is still very much out on the gooey, glassmorphic UI design that Apple also unveiled at WWDC, however. The Browser Company, who made the niche, but well liked Arc browser, has been working on a new AI-first browser called Dia, and this week it’s available early access for Arc Members. At first glance Dia feels similar to other “agentic” browsers, giving users a chat input and the ability to chat about content in tabs or links, but it also shows off skills like connecting to calendars to schedule meetings or composing text that can be inserted into emails. We’ll report back after we’ve had a chance to test Dia out for a bit. Chapter markers: 1:00 - void0’s Rolldown-Vite 5:52 - Safari 26 beta 21:26 - Dia, the new AI-browser from The Browser Company 29:38 - Cursor raises $900 million Links: Paige - void0's Rolldown-Vite Jack - Dia, the new AI-browser from The Browser Company TJ - Safari 26 beta Lightning News: Cursor raises $900 million What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Paradise TV series Jack - Ballerina movie TJ - Apple Vision Pro on The Price is Right 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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OpenAI has a new API in beta called the Realtime API, which enables speech conversations with LLMs. Real-time text and audio processing means users can have conversations with voice agents and voice-enabled apps, and OpenAI makes it simple to connect via WebRTC or WebSockets. Several months ago, The Browser Company, abruptly announced they were stopping work on Arc browser in favor of building a completely new, AI-first browser called Dia. Now, the company’s CEO has released a letter detailing why these decisions were made and what the future holds for The Browser Company. Details on Dia are vague, but the team is optimistic they can build “a true successor to the browser”. AI-enabled coding IDE Cursor hit v1.0, this week with a bunch of notable features. Notable highlights in this release include: BugBot, which automatically reviews PRs and identifies bugs and issues, Background Agent (Cursor’s remote coding agent) for all users, Memories to help Cursor remember facts and conversations within projects for future use, and one-click MCP install and OAuth support. Timestamps: 1:10 - OpenAI’s realtime agent API 10:03 - The Browser Company Kills Arc 16:53 - Cursor 1.0 28:04 - Codex gets internet access 31:09 - React Router’s open governance 34:18 - Fire Starter 39:55 - What’s making us happy News: Paige - Cursor 1.0 Jack - OpenAI’s Realtime Agent for AI chat TJ - The Browser Company stops developing Arc Lightning News: React Router Open Governance Codex gets access to the internet Fire Starter: console.log formatting strings What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Clarkson’s Farm season 4 Jack - Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 headphones TJ - Rotary cheese grater 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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It’s been 4 years since TypeScript schema validation library Zod released v3, but the new v4 release makes it worth the wait. Expect faster parsing times across the board, built in error pretty-printing, and even a tree-shakeable API called Zod Mini for constrained environments like edge runtimes. There’s a new npm-based CLI tool for managing and sharing AI rules across different editors and tools called vibe-rules. In addition to saving favorite prompts so they can be applied to any supported editor, vibe-rules can also automatically install prompts shared in a project’s NPM packages into an editor’s configuration. It’s early days yet, but a great idea to make prompts easier for anyone to use. Angular v20 is out with some much anticipated highlights. Stabilized signal-based APIs, incremental hydration, custom Angular reporting directly in Chrome DevTools, GenAI development advancements, and, last but not least, a RFC for an official Angular mascot. Not to bias you, but we favor the pink, dice-shaped mascot around here. In this episode: 1:10 - Zod v4 5:50 - vibe-rules 15:12 - Angular 20 27:03 - Remix v3 31:32 - Stack Overflow’s Annual Dev Survey 38:02 - Firefox and Temporal 39:15 - Bolt’s hackathon status News: Paige - Zod v4 Jack - vibe-rules TJ - Angular 20 Lightning News: Remix v3 updates Firefox is the first browser to support Temporal ( Temporal on MDN ) StackOverflow’s Annual Dev Survey is out now Bolt’s hackathon starts What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Annual Gloucestershire cheese rolling race and Wiki history Jack - The Portland Pickles baseball game TJ - StoryGraph and The God of the Woods 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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This week both Google and Microsoft held conferences where they announced all the new, great AI breakthroughs, but there were a few other notable, web dev-focused pieces in between. VS Code announced it will be open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, refactoring relevant components into its core codebase, as the next logical step “in making VS Code an open source AI editor.” Microsoft has floated a new idea called “NLWeb” to make it easier for websites to turn themselves into AI apps using an LLM model and their own data. While this sounds interesting, it’s very early days yet and is not ready for prime time. A blog post from Remix creator Ryan Florence leaked earlier this week, and in it, Ryan shares that Remix v3 will move away from using React. The usual criticisms of React are present, and so Remix v3 will be completely new with a focus on a framework that’s AI friendly and leveraging all the Web APIs available today. News: VS Code is open sourcing its AI chat extension Remix’s “Declaration of Independence” blog leaked And Microsoft introduces yet another AI standard Lightning News: Satya Nadella and podcasts Introducing Claude 4 What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Daredevil: Born Again TV series Jack - Baseball team Portland Pickles’ Red Head Appreciation Night TJ - The Philadelphia Inquirer’s summer reading list 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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1 GraphQL and AI with Apollo CTO Matt DeBergalis 47:19
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CTO and co-founder of Apollo, Matt DeBergalis, joins us on this episode to talk about how GraphQL has continued to evolve over time, and how Apollo is focused on making it more accessible for developers and AI agents than ever before. For those less familiar with Apollo and GraphQL, Matt shares the history of both, including lessons he learned from founding the company Meteor that helped him while building Apollo. We discuss how even though GraphQL is making less headlines than it was a few years ago, it’s really begun to find its niche within larger organizations that have hundreds or even thousands of APIs and databases underpinning their many applications, and how Apollo has continued to evolve so that it can support APIs, serverless functions, and SQL- or no SQL-databases, with little extra code needed to make these different data sources work together. Matt also highlights the benefits of a GraphQL schema for AI agents and MCP servers, sharing how the agents are generally very good at parsing the schemas and understanding how to leverage queries against the interface to retrieve the data they need. While we’ve had tech stacks in the past like LAMP and MERN, this new addition of AI to the development mix provides a unique opportunity to redefine the stack once more, and GraphQL could be a very good piece to include. Special Guest Matt DeBergalis, CTO and co-founder of Apollo Relevant Links: Apollo GraphQL website Apollo GraphQL YouTube Apollo GraphQL LinkedIn Apollo GraphQL on X Matt on GitHub Matt on X Matt on Medium Matt on LinkedIn What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Pitt TV series TJ - I Think I Was Murdered Matt - Teaching my daughter to ride a bike 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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TanStack, a collection of popular open-source software libraries, is back in the news cycle this week with the announcement of TanStack DB. TanStack DB extends TanStack Query with collections, live queries, and optimistic UI mutations to keep UIs reactive, consistent, and lightning fast. VS Code marks its 100th release of v1 with updates like: enabling Next Edit Suggestions (NES) be default, adding custom instructions and reusable prompts for a chat agent inside a project’s .github folder, and new tools at the AI agent’s disposal for better results. There’s a new component library available called Basecoat UI that claims to bring the magic of shadcn/ui with no React required. No matter if a website’s built using HTML, Flask, Rails, or another JS framework, Basecoat uses HTML and Tailwind, and a hint of Alpine.js when needed, to provide accessible, modern components that are also compatible with shadcn/ui themes. News: Paige - Basecoat UI - framework agnostic component library Jack - TanStack DB TJ - VS Code 1.100 Bonus News: Apparently we should all just f’ing use HTML Parcel v2.15 jumps on the Rust bandwagon Google is testing a new “AI Mode” Google’s logo change Max once again becomes HBO Max What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - House of Earth and Blood (#1 in Crescent City series) Jack - Grand Sumo May 2025 Tournament TJ - Coast of Michigan 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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Node is back in the news with some noteworthy updates as v24 drops. It gets an upgrade to 13.6 for its V8 JavaScript engine, runs with npm version 11, and has more efficient implementation of the local storage API and test runner updates. Google has released its newest version of its Gemini AI model: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition), which claims to be the best model for front-end and UI development. To prove it, Google links to a site called the WebDev Arena (where Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview ranks #1), that lets users put in a prompt and then pits different AI models head to head to build a site based on the prompt. Figma just had their 2025 Config conference and unveiled a host of new offerings, including Figma Sites that lets folks design, prototype and publish with Figma, and Figma Make the AI prompting tool that can add functionality to a Figma mockup via natural language directions. News: Paige - Node 24 updates Jack - Figma Make and Figma Sites and conference demo video TJ - Gemini 2.5 updates and WebDev Arena Bonus News: Take the first annual State of Devs survey OpenAI agrees to buy Windsurf for $3B Fire Starters: CSS reading-flow and reading-order What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Old Town Trolley Tours Jack - The Residence TV show TJ - ChatGPT helping with camera & video setup 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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1 React Activity, Storybook 9 Beta, and AI as a Collaborator, Not a Crutch 55:50
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The React team’s been on a roll lately with new experimental updates. Last episode we covered View Transitions, and today we discuss Activity. Activity is a component to hide and show parts of the UI while maintaining the component’s state and continuing to render at a lower priority when it’s not visible on screen. Storybook 9 beta is out now, and it seems to be transitioning from a frontend workshop for building UI components in isolation to a one-stop shop for all your frontend testing needs. And Microsoft recently released a paper from researchers at Cambridge and Carnegie Mellon studying how AI coding assistants have allowed developers to engage in less critical thinking and independent problem-solving, and how the skills to do both could deteriorate if this over-reliance on AI continues unchecked. News: Paige - Storybook 9 beta Jack - React TJ - The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking and Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI Bonus News: Ladybird new independent web browser MTMC-16 Apple changes App Store rules to allow external purchases What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Night Manager series Jack - Raycast TJ - Linkin Park World Tour 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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1 Alien Signals, React Compiler Hits RC, and RedwoodSDK Plans Revealed 37:14
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Signals has been gaining in popularity the past few years for its fine-grained approach to reactivity in the browser, and a new high performance implementation called Alien Signals has landed in Vue.js. It offers significant performance improvements to complex applications with lots of data changes, and has been extended so it can be used in other JS-based libraries besides Vue. The React team announces that React Compiler has reached release candidate (RC) stage and is nearing stable release territory. React Compiler is a build-time tool that optimizes React apps through automatic memoization so devs don’t have to worry about including useMemo() and useCallback() hooks in their code. RedwoodSDK, which had some cryptic messaging about its future last month, has unveiled more of the story on its new website this month. It’s aiming to be part of the “personal software revolution” by providing a React framework for Cloudflare, offering built in access to Cloudflare Workers, databases and storage, queues, AI, and more. News: Paige - RedwoodSDK details revealed Jack - Alien Signals TJ - React Compiler RC Bonus News: Everybody wants to buy Chrome What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Severance TV series season 2 Jack - Grilling season TJ - Detroit grows in population for the first time in decades 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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1 All AI All the Time: OpenAI’s Codex, the Web Dev AI Survey, and More 45:21
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The AI hype train keeps chugging along with new updates from OpenAI. ChatGPT now offers GPT-4.1 - a new dev-first model trained for use cases related to coding, instruction following, and function calling with a context window of up to 1 million tokens. It also announces Codex CLI, a terminal version of ChatGPT that devs can use to run code, manipulate files, and iterate without ever leaving their preferred terminal. Next.js 15.3 drops with new features like using its Turbopack buildpack for production builds (still in alpha stage so use with caution), community support for Rspack as a drop in replacement for the Webpack bundler, and new navigation hooks for enhanced client-side routing capabilities. There’s also a new survey out this week: the first annual State of Web Dev AI, which answers questions like which AI tools devs find most useful, how much devs are spending on AI, and what pain points are devs most likely to encounter when leveraging AI to develop their own web apps. News: Paige - OpenAI Codex CLI and GPT-4.1 models Jack - State of AI Web Dev 2025 TJ - Next.js 15.3 Bonus News: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf for $3B “Slopsquatting” AI agents for everyone ( Firebase Studio ), ( Arduino AI Assistant ) Fire Starter: Declarative Web Push What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Solo Leveling anime series Jack - Knuckles TV mini series TJ - NY Times Flashback 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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1 Agents Assemble: Google’s A2A Protocol, Copilot Reviews & RedwoodJS Reborn 50:17
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Google announces a new Agent2Agent protocol meant to support AI agents communicating with each other. A2A aims to complement MCP and address the challenges of deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems from various providers across different platforms and cloud environments. GitHub Copilot’s new code review feature is now generally available. Just like you’d assign a coworker to review a PR, users can now assign a Copilot agent to review that same PR and spot bugs, identify potential performance problems, and suggest fixes. RedwoodJS has rebranded itself RedwoodSDK, and is focusing on a new framework that will become the foundation of a personal software revolution. RedwoodSDK promises modern serverless infrastructure, AI-driven dev tools, and open ecosystems, with more details coming soon. News: Paige - RedwoodJS becomes RedwoodSDK Jack - Google’s A2A TJ - Copilot code reviews & premium requests Bonus News: StackBlitz is hosting the world’s largest hackathon Devin 2.0 Wordpress.com launches free AI-powered website builder Fire Starter: text-wrap: pretty What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Claude AI Jack - The Accountant 2 movie TJ - Apple Sports 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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1 tRPC v11, Netlify vs. Next.js, and Firefox Gets PWAs (Kind Of) 36:53
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The tRPC team declares v11 officially production-ready. tRPC allows devs to build typesafe APIs with types that can be shared on the client and server, and now it has support for TanStack Query v5, the ability to send and receive non-JSON data content types, improved support for RSCs, and the ability to stream responses. After the Next.js security incident a few weeks back, Netlify writes an open letter around the challenges Next.js poses when not hosted on Vercel. It raises valid points like a lack of adapters, no production grade documentation for serverless deployments, no visible roadmap or release schedule, and a disregard for open web standards, among others. Firefox is finally adding support for progressive web apps (PWAs), but its web app support will intentionally not look, feel, or behave the same way similar features do in other browsers. News: Paige - tRPC v11 Jack - Firefox will support PWAs (finally) TJ - Next.js Netlify deployment drama Bonus News: Styled-components enter maintenance mode New Bare JS runtime Windsurf and Netlify partnership (and docs on the feature ) What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Squeeze Me novel Jack - Pickup Music site TJ - Mario Kart World 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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1 VS Code & GitHub Copilot Announcements with Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner 55:55
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Special guests Burke Holland and Harald Kirschner from Microsoft join us on this episode to share the new GitHub Copilot features coming to VS Code and beyond. First up: agent mode is now available to all users in VS Code. GitHub Copilot gets a serious upgrade as it can now create new apps from scratch, handle complex changes to existing code across multiple files, run (and debug) tests from the command line, and guide you through its reasoning. Additionally, VS Code and GH Copilot now offer MCP (model context protocol) for agent mode. This means that GitHub Copilot can use context tools and services while building an application. There’s a host of already available community-standard MCP servers available on github.com or devs can build their own and GH Copilot will be able to use it to enhance its knowledge and capabilities. Next Edit Suggestions (NES) lands in GH Copilot as well, so when devs make one change to a file Copilot predicts the changes that follow and presents them in sequence. Not only are ghost-text suggestions faster to appear to users in VS Code, but Copilot is also better at understanding what other changes are needed to support the new code. Special Guests: Burke Holland, Principal Developer Advocate at Microsoft running the VS Code developer community team Harald Kirschner, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft for VS Code and GitHub Copilot Relevant Links: VS Code Timeline view Burke’s Website Burke on GitHub Burke on Twitter Burke on YouTube Burke on TikTok Burke on LinkedIn Harald’s Website Harald on GitHub Harald on Twitter Harald on LinkedIn What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Apple AirPods Pro Gen 2 Jack - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 TJ - Trip to the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park Burke - Insta 360 webcam Harald - Springtime in CA 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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1 Next.js’s Security Vulnerability, Remix Walks Away from RSCs, and Rsdoctor 1.0 48:16
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Next.js had a security vulnerability scare last week due to an internal header in its middleware that allowed for skipping middleware (like auth validation) before reaching routes. The Next.js team responded quickly and patched the security holes, but this serves as a reminder to stay vigilant, keep dependencies updated, and implement multiple layers of security. Michael Jackson, co-founder of Remix and React Router, is calling it quits for Remix support React Server Components. Lots of React-based frameworks built prior to RSCs have been struggling to support the new paradigm shift - and lots of devs have bemoaned the fact because of the added complexity it introduces, and MJ is over it. This isn’t the first time framework authors have made bold claims to not support new breaking changes, so we’ll have to wait and see if he sticks to it. Rsdoctor, a build analyzer tool by ByteDance, has hit v1.0. Rsdoctor goes beyond other build analysis tools offering a visual view of the build process and smart analysis to help dev teams identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and improve overall engineering quality. News: Paige - Rsdoctor 1.0 is available now Jack - Remix bailing on RSC? TJ - Next.js’s security vulnerability Bonus News: Redwood JS enters maintenance mode Browser Use Raises $17M Fire Starters: CSS interpolate-size: allow-keywords What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Mythic Quest TV series Jack - Relearning guitar and the Katana Go headphone amp TJ - Open AI image generation and Studio Ghibli 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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1 Parcel Joins the RSC Party, CodeSandbox Gets AI-Powered, & Netlify x TanStack Start 39:01
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Web app bundler Parcel adds support for React Server Components, including a repo of example apps for developers to reference. Although not specifically aimed at framework developers it seems like that’s the audience that would benefit most from this new feature in Parcel. CodeSandbox enters the AI game by teaming up with AI hosting platform Together AI, and launching CodeSandbox SDK. CodeSandbox SDK will allow developers to programmatically spin up AI sandboxes just like they can spin up microVMs today to run web app sandboxes in the cloud on CodeSandbox.io. Netlify inks a deal to become the official deployment partner of TanStack Start. Deploying TanStack projects on Netlify will mean: no config files needed, access to Netlify serverless functions, the reliability of Netlify’s global edge network, and the developer tools we know and love like instant previews and automated workflows. News: Paige - CodeSandbox joins Together AI and launches CodeSandbox SDK Jack - Parcel RSCs TJ - TanStack + Netlify Partnership Bonus News: Google Acquires Wiz for $32 billion Oxlint Beta is ready to replace ESLint What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Formula 1: Drive to Survive S7 Jack - Mushroom outdoor solar lights TJ - Michael Jordan-shaped Cheeto up for auction 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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1 TypeScript’s Compiler Glow-Up, OpenAI’s Agentic Push, and One-Click Site Cloning 44:17
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The TypeScript Compiler (TSC) is getting a major port to Go. Go’s support for concurrency and efficient memory management convinced the Microsoft team to port the code over and should result in as much as 10x faster builds in the future. Expect a feature-complete implementation towards the end of 2025, and the first major release of the native compiler to be TS 7.0 after that. OpenAI has released new APIs to make building agentic apps even simpler. A new Response API, built in tools like web search and file search, an Agents SDK to orchestrate agent workflows, and observability tools to trace and inspect those workflows round out the offerings for empowering autonomous agents to accomplish more tasks. Developer Aiden Bai’s back in the news with a new site called same.dev that claims to “one-shot” clone any site. Just enter a site URL into the input and it will return React, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI code. It’s pretty unreal. News: Paige - OpenAI: New Tools for Building Agents Jack - same.dev TJ - TypeScript ports compiler to Go for 10x faster builds Bonus News: Apple delays upgraded Siri Fire Starters: HTML Data List element What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Under desk heated footrest Jack - Jamstik Standard MIDI Guitar TJ - Charizard Cheeto 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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1 TanStack Form v1, ByteDance Debuts Lynx, & VS Code AI Levels Up 42:01
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The Tanner-verse expands again, as TanStack Form announces v1 just two years after Tanner Linsley began work on it. Out of the gate, TanStack Form supports React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. ByteDance (yes, that ByteDance) has released a React Native competitor named Lynx. Lynx is a new JavaScript framework that allows you to write apps that run across iOS, Android, and the Web, and it’s already being used in production TikTok apps. VS Code’s February release had some major AI highlights this month. Preview access to the latest ChatGPT 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 models for GH Copilot, the ability to attach images, GH problems, and entire folders for context, and improvements to Agent Mode. News: Paige - VS Code Feb highlights Jack - TanStack Form hits v1 TJ - Lynx Bonus News: Tailwind UI becomes Tailwind Plus Vibecoding Fire Starters: Invoker Commands API What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Visiting Greenville, SC Jack - Prime Target TV series TJ - Pokémon GO 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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1 Our AI Tool Preferences, Claude Code, & create-tsrouter-app Goes Solid 44:43
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Special announcement: Please take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests. The web development world can’t seem to get enough of surveys, so we’ve got the first State of AI 2025 to announce in this week’s episode. The folks behind this survey are the same ones who run State of JS, State of CSS, State of HTML, and more. Take 15 minutes to let them know what AI models you prefer, which code assistants you use, and what annoys you about the state of AI today. Along the same lines, Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code. Claude Sonnet’s become a favorite model in the programming world and 3.7 introduces the first hybrid model that can produce near instant response or extended, thoughtful responses, depending on what the user wants. Claude Code is Anthropic’s first agentic coding tool in the form of a CLI that can search and read code, edit files, run tests, and commit code to GitHub. Jack’s drop in replacement for the deprecated Create React App, create-tsrouter-app, now offers Solid JS support, add-ons like including Sentry or Tailwind CSS in a new project, and model context protocol (MCP) support for AI coding assistants to interact with the application. News: Paige - State of AI survey 2025 Jack - create-tsrouter-app updates (Solid, add-ons, MCP support) TJ - Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code Bonus News: Bonus News: First impressions of Bolt.new + Expo react-scan 0.2 React Explorer What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Breville InFizz Aqua Jack - Adrian’s Digital Basement YT channel TJ - ClaudePlaysPokemon 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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1 TraeAI Enters the IDE Wars, CRA’s Successor, and Bolt.new + Expo 48:49
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Special announcement: Please take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests. The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, has just released TraeAI, the newest entrant to the AI-enhanced IDE wars. Trae is also a fork of the VS Code IDE and offers many of the same AI features of competitors Windsurf and Cursor: chats, autocomplete, etc. Recently we reported the React team agreed to deprecate starter React repo Create React App due to changes in React 19 breaking the project. Well, our very own Jack Herrington collaborated with the TanStack team to create a drop-in replacement called create-tsrouter-app that builds TanStack Router based SPA applications to give folks who previously used CRA a better option in today’s world. Bolt.new, the browser-based AI agent continues to make news announcing a new integration with native app development framework Expo. Now, users can describe to Bolt what sort of mobile app they want in natural language, preview the code in real time on any platform, and refine their vision by chatting with the agent, and finally deploying it to the app store. News: Paige - Bolt.new & Expo integrate to build mobile apps with AI Jack - Jack’s very own Create React App replacement: create-tsrouter-app TJ - TraeAI Bonus News: Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter ESLint supports CSS linting Fire Starters: CSS text-box-trim What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Drop Stop car seat gap filler Jack - 3D printing TJ - Onyx Storm 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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1 State of React Results, TypeScript 5.8, and v0 Upgrades 40:28
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Please take our listener survey so we can better tailor the podcast to your interests. It’s only mid-February and already the State of React survey results for 2024 are in! Unsurprisingly Next.js continues to dominate as the most used React-based framework and Tailwind CSS tops the charts when it comes to CSS tools and libraries. TypeScript 5.8 beta brings TypeScript syntax one step closer to being a first-class citizen in the Node runtime. Node 23.6 unflagged experimental support for running TS files directly, but certain TS constructs like enums, import aliases and a few other things just aren’t supported. TS 5.8 beta introduces the –eraseabeSyntaxOnly flag, which will allow users to only write TS constructs that can be erased from a Node file, and will issue an error if it encounters constructs that can’t be erased cleanly. Vercel’s AI tool v0 can now import Tailwind config and Figma files. Now, designs begun in Figma can be imported to v0 to refine without the friction of design-to-code translation and custom font weights and colors can be added to directly from a custom Tailwind config file. News: Paige - TypeScript 5.8’s –eraseableSyntaxOnly flag Jack - v0 can now import Tailwind config and Figma files TJ - State of React 2024 survey results Bonus News: Angular: The Documentary Astro 5.2 Fire Starters: CSS hanging-punctuation What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - A Man on the Inside TV series Jack - Strings of bee lights TJ - Heated gloves 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 MCP AI Tools, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and React 19 Breaks CRA 50:30
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The latest wrinkle for AI coding assistant tools like Cursor and Windsurf is known as the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open protocol that allows users to provide custom tools and services to agentic LLMs like calling a third party weather service. In further AI news, OpenAI has introduced a new deep research agent designed to conduct multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. Just give it a prompt requiring research, like which model of washing machine to buy, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst. And as it turns out, the upgrade to React 19 broke React’s own Create React App (CRA) starter repo and the community wants it fixed and deprecated, as it’s no longer the recommended way to build a new React project in the docs. Mark Erikson, of Redux fame, opens a GitHub issue in the repo suggesting updates and solutions and the official acquiesces to fix the repo for now, and deprecate it in the docs. News: Paige - OpenAI introduces deep research agent Jack - Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Cursor and Windsurf TJ - Create React App and React 19 (and here’s the issue to add Astro to the React docs ) Bonus News: Dan Abramov leaves Bluesky Oracle v. Deno trademark update GitHub Copilot introduces agents with Copilot Edits Fire Starters: CSS position sticky What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Handheld compressed air duster Jack - Finishing LED movie poster RPi project TJ - Cannondale Topstone bike 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 DeepSeek R1, Devin.ai, and TS Validation Standards 52:32
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A new challenger to rival OpenAI’s best ChatGPT model has arisen from China named DeepSeek R1. The reason it’s causing even more of a stir is because the creators claim DeepSeek R1 was trained for under $5M - a mere fraction of the cost of comparable models to date - and they’ve open sourced the code, the models, all of it. In the same vein, both TJ and Paige had the chance to try out AI coding assistant Devin.ai firsthand last week. Devin is best described as an energetic junior programmer, and while it offers unique ways of interacting with it: Slack threads, PR comments, and has oversight over multiple repos so it can be asked to do things like compare documentation in one repo to SDK endpoints in another repo, its end value is still questionable. TypeScript validation libraries have been catching on in recent years, and the creators of some of the most popular ones (Zod, ArkType, and Valibot) have gotten together to promote a common interface for libraries called Standard Schema. News: Paige - Standard Schema promotes a common interface for TypeScript validation libraries Jack - DeepSeek R1 TJ - Our firsthand experiences with Devin.ai and jokes about AI trained coding assistants Bonus News: Matt Biilman coins the next big term in web dev experience: AX (“agent experience”) Vercel acquires dashboard and chart library Tremor Has the “Rust wave” crested? Fire Starters: toReversed , toSorted , and toSpliced What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Recruit TV series Jack - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck TJ - Onyx Storm 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 News: Bun 1.2, Tailwind CSS v4, and React Scan 0.1 44:11
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This week, the team behind JavaScript runtime Bun drops some major updates into Bun 1.2. Bun introduces a built-in S3 storage API, a built-in Postgres client (with MySQL coming soon), 90% compatibility with Node.js, and it’s faster than ever before. Tailwind CSS v4 is out as well, and it boasts a new higher performance engine for 5x faster full builds, support for cutting edge CSS features like cascade layers, custom properties, and container queries, a simplified initial install and config to get going, and a first-party Vite plugin. And React Scan, built by Aiden Bai who also built Million.js, is also out this week with v0.1. Install React Scan into any React app and it will auto detect performance issues due to excessive re-rendering, and highlight the components causing the issues. News: Paige - Tailwind CSS v4.0 Jack - React Scan 0.1 (aka Million.js) TJ - Bun 1.2 Bonus News: Stargate OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you Fire Starters: Link to text fragments with #:~:text= What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Puzzles (like the ones from Buffalo Games) Jack - Klipsch G-17 air wireless speaker TJ - Not So Super, Apple 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 Expo Unveils Hosting, Interop 2024 Highlights, and Automattic Cuts WP Contributions 50:59
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The first topic of conversation this week is an unexpected new area the Expo team is tackling: Expo Application Service Hosting. EAS Hosting is a new service for quickly deploying web projects built using Expo and React Native apps. It makes it easy to compile and sign apps with custom native code, upload apps to the Play Store or App Store, and push live app updates directly to users. The Interop project, which aims to improve interoperability between major browser engines, released its accomplishments from 2024 this week. The browsers took on 17 areas of focus in 2024, and went from 46% of tests passing in January, all the way to 95% of tests passing by the end of December. WordPress makes headlines once more, as Autommatic, the WordPress hosting company owned by WP creator Matt Mullenweg cuts its contributions back on the WP open-source project from 4,000 hours per week to 45 hours per week. News: Paige - Interop 2024 highlights Jack - Expo APIs (EAS Hosting) TJ - Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours ( WordPress Drama Timeline ) Bonus News: Vitest 3.0 is out The iPhone Air could be coming later this year Fire Starters: WebXR Device API What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Shrinking TV show and browser-based SwaggerEditor Jack - fzf command-line fuzzy finder TJ - Switch 2 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 Honey Extension Scandal, Deno vs. Oracle, and Ghostty Terminal Emulator 43:14
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This episode begins with a cautionary tale to double check your browser extensions. Popular coupon browser extension Honey’s been caught replacing affiliate links with its own tracking codes right before checkout, as well as applying pre-selected discount codes from its business partners that aren’t always the best deals. A few weeks ago we reported Deno is petitioning Oracle to release the JavaScript trademark as Oracle’s never used it since acquiring it when it bought Sun Microsystems. This week Oracle has informed Deno they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on JavaScript, and are lawyering up. And the creator of HashiCorp has built a new terminal emulator called Ghostty that’s getting a lot of buzz lately. Ghostty is written in Zig and uses platform native UI and GPU acceleration for an ultra fast terminal experience. It’s got all the expected features like split screen, key commands, and support for programs like Neovim, and is worth a shot if you’re interested in trying a new terminal competitor. News: Paige - Ghostty terminal emulator and app settings GUI Jack - Honey browser extension scandal TJ - Oracle plans to fight Deno’s petition for them to release the JavaScript trademark Bonus News: Node’s experimental type stripping is now enabled by default Fire Starters: Broadcast Channel API What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Lies of Locke Lamora novel Jack - Home automation and the Hue lighting API TJ - CES! Featuring things like Swippitt 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 State of JS 2024 Results, Free GitHub Copilot, and Awesome Shadcn UI 48:23
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To start us off, the State of JS 2024 survey results were recently released, and there’s lots of interesting stats to share. Vite continues to be the most loved framework and build tool amongst all JS devs, React continues to be the most used framework amongst JS devs at work, and SvelteKit and Astro are the two meta frameworks JS devs are most interested in trying out. Fun fact: 67% of respondents say they use ChatGPT to help them write code, but estimate only 12 - 20% of their code in a project is AI-assisted. In keeping with the AI trend, VS Code announced a fee plan for GitHub Copilot: no trial, no subscription, no credit card required. Limits apply, but it’s a great opportunity for devs who aren’t sure if Copilot is worth the cost to try it out. Shadcn has also released its new resource site Awesome Shadcn UI. The site contains 13 categories, 200 resources, and lots of useful links to templates, UI libraries, components, color customizations, animations, and more. News: Paige - State of JS 2024 survey results Jack - Shadcn UI design system resources TJ - Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code Bonus News: Matt Mullenweg imposes a “holiday break” on WordPress and asks Redditors what other drama he should create in 2025 Fire Starters: Clipboard API What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Tulsa King TV series Jack - Hue Play HDMI sync box 8K TJ - Updating my blog 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
We wrap up the podcast with an end of year holiday spectacular episode! Instead of the usual news, the hosts share the biggest front end stories of 2024, the most fascinating developments, and the moments that made us happiest. Thank you, Front-End Fire listeners! We couldn’t have done this without you. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season, and we can’t wait to bring you more frontend goodness in 2025. Biggest Story of the Year for Frontend Devs: Paige - Vite and void(0) Jack - React 19 drama and delays TJ - The rise in AI tooling, and how we move forward with it Most Interesting Story of 2024: Paige - Apple’s not-so-great year: Apple Vision Pro , EU legal issues , Apple Intelligence Jack - AI app builders: v0 , bolt.new , etc. TJ - Wordpress Drama What Made You Happy in 2024: Paige - Consistent practice of hobbies Jack - Growing this podcast and quality time with friends and family TJ - Getting back into reading 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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1 OpenAI Goes Pro, React 19 is Stable, and Figma's New Competitor Onlook 50:17
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In our last news episode of the year, we share that React 19 is declared stable, just in time for the holidays. It’s been a long road from release candidate in April to stability now, but it was well worth the wait. React 19 is packing a lot of features, including: Actions, hooks, form actions, the new use API, and of course, React Server Components and Server Actions. OpenAI’s been busy as well, introducing ChatGPT Pro, its $200 a month subscription for unlimited access to OpenAI o1 (the “reasoning model), GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. Additionally, the startup announced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, like VS Code, XCode, Terminal, and iTerm2. There’s a new challenger to Figma for styling React-based code bases called Onlook. Onlook is a browser-based product studio that lets you design React code with Tailwind CSS using an easy-to-use interface just like you would in Figma. News: Paige - Onlook, the power Figma in your React app Jack - React 19 is stable TJ - OpenAI announcements: ChatGPT Pro and Work With Apps Bonus News: Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality iOS 18.2 and Apple Intelligence Fire Starters: Customizable Selects ( Wes Bos video ) What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Black Doves TV series and The Midnight Feast book Jack - Seestar-S50 All-in-one smart telescope TJ - Christmas Village in Grand Rapids, MI 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 Tweet us on X @front_end_fire and BlueSky. 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…
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