118: Bun 1.3 - From Runtime to Full-Stack Powerhouse

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   E123 · 24 Nov 2025 · 49 min

   123: Is Google’s Antigravity IDE a Game-Changer or Just Another Fork?

   Another week, another new AI IDE. This week, Google released the Antigravity IDE (yet another VS Code fork) which offers unique twists like “cross-surface” agents, user feedback to agent-generated artifacts, and a view of all agents across any workspace. The team behind the Unistyles cross-platform library just debuted Uniwind for all the React Native devs who want to use Tailwind styling in their native apps. Uniwind brings Tailwind-style className support to RN at build time, and has a cust...

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   E122 · 17 Nov 2025 · 44 min

   122: Snapchat Drops Valdi—A New Challenger to React Native?

   In a surprise move, Snapchat open sources its cross-platform UI Valdi. Valdi lets devs write UI components in TypeScript then compiles them to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS, offers instant hot reload without recompiling, and integrates well into already existing native apps. GitHub Universe 2025 wrapped up just a few weeks ago, and it had a bunch of new AI agent updates to share. Think: a single source to manage agents across GitHub, Mobile, CLI, and VS Code, custom agents wit...

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   E121 · 10 Nov 2025 · 42 min

   121: Chrome DevTools Gets AI Superpowers

   This week is a news roundup while cohost Jack is away for a hackathon in SF. First up, is how Chrome DevTools has added AI to its panels. Now users can ask Gemini to explain console errors, make CSS changes via in the elements tab, and explain traces collected in the performance panel. HTMX has also jumped from v2 to v4 (alpha), rebuilding the internals after 5 years of maintaining the project. Upgrades include: going from XMLHttpRequests to fetch, explicit attribute inheritance, and im...

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   E120 · 3 Nov 2025 · 54 min

   120: Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

   It’s been almost 3 weeks since the React Compiler hit v1.0 and Jack gives an update on the ease of adding it to a React-based project and immediate performance improvement he’s seen from it. Popular AI-powered IDE Cursor just released v2.0, and it’s going hard on the agent mode, offering things like: a multi-agent interface where agents can run in parallel working on the same task with different models, and a new frontier model that’s 4x faster. Then the hosts then get existential about...

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   E119 · 27 Oct 2025 · 47 min

   119: Vercel’s Double Feature—Next.js 16 and Ship AI

   Another week, another new AI-browser. This time it’s OpenAI’s turn to introduce ChatGPT Atlas. As with the other AI browsers, Atlas knows the context of open tabs, has an agent that can do things for you, and (maybe its defining feature) it has "memory" built in so conversations can draw on past chats and details when needed. The team behind Vite reveals their path to revenue with command line devtool Vite+. Devs will soon be able to test, lint, format, bundle, and even view their apps’ stats...

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   E117 · 13 Oct 2025 · 41 min

   React Goes Independent: Inside the New React Foundation

   It’s been a big week for React devs as the annual React Conf just wrapped up in Las Vegas. The biggest news? React and React Native are moving out from under Meta to a new React Foundation with an independent technical governance structure. The React Foundation’s mission will be to support the React community and ecosystem, and a board of directors will steer it going forward. Also in time for React Conf, React 19.2 dropped, and it brings new features like partial pre-rendering, a new u...

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   E116 · 6 Oct 2025 · 42 min

   Claude Code Levels Up: VS Code Extension, Checkpoints & Sonnet 4.5

   Anthropic dropped a bunch of good Claude Code updates. There’s a new a native VS Code extension, a v2 of the terminal version of Claude, code checkpoints, and it’s all powered by Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s best coding model yet. On top of Claude’s glow up, the Google Chrome team launched a Chrome DevTools MCP. AI coding assistants will be able to debug web pages directly in a Chrome browser, including using DevTools to review network requests, console output and page structure, simulate user int...

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   E115 · 29 Sep 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

   Adam Argyle on Cracking the 2025 Web Dev Interview

   CSS wizard, and now Staff Design Engineer at Shopify, Adam Argyle, joins us on this episode to talk about what web development interviews are like in 2025 and what folks can do to stand out today. Links: Adam’s nerdy.dev websiteAdam’s Argyle Ink websiteAdam on YouTubeAdam on BlueskyAdam on GitHubAdam on XAdam on LinkedInhttps://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce https://www.capcut.com What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Why Is This Interesting (WITI) newsletterTJ - Strands NYT game...

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   E114 · 22 Sep 2025 · 57 min

   npm Under Siege: The “Shai-Hulud” Worm Attack

   The supply chain attacks on npm continue and this week, Crowdstrike’s npm packages fell victim to the “Shai-Hulud” worm. To mitigate the potential of downloading these malicious packages, consider pinning specific package versions in JS projects and using 2FA to publish new package versions to npm. Also this week, WebAssembly Specification (Wasm) released v3.0. This version dramatically expands the memory Wasm apps can use, supports multiple memory usage, and now allows garbage collecti...

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    E113 · 15 Sep 2025 · 50 min

    npm’s Biggest Supply Chain Attack (and What We Learned)

    Just 5 months ago we covered how Storybook 9 was in beta, and already Storybook 10 is in beta. The biggest change is that Storybook is going all in on ESM and dropping CJS support, which is making for some big performance gains and smaller bundle sizes. This past week, npm suffered the largest supply chain attack in its history when a prolific OSS maintainer got phished. Luckily, the attack was noticed and reported within the hour and it looks like the hackers got next to nothing for their ef...