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TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

127 episodes

2 weeks ago

It’s that time of year again: the holidays are nearly upon us and 2026 is fast approaching, so it’s time for our year end holiday spectacular! This year our past predictions for the future of web development come back to haunt us, we make some bold new proclamations for what’s in store for 2026, and of course, share what’s made us happy this year. Our past predictions were pretty hit or miss. Although a surge in popularity for simpler frontend frameworks like SolidJS and a whole slew of new w...

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It’s that time of year again: the holidays are nearly upon us and 2026 is fast approaching, so it’s time for our year end holiday spectacular! This year our past predictions for the future of web development come back to haunt us, we make some bold new proclamations for what’s in store for 2026, and of course, share what’s made us happy this year. Our past predictions were pretty hit or miss. Although a surge in popularity for simpler frontend frameworks like SolidJS and a whole slew of new w...

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126: The 2025 Holiday Spectacular

It’s that time of year again: the holidays are nearly upon us and 2026 is fast approaching, so it’s time for our year end holiday spectacular! This year our past predictions for the future of web development come back to haunt us, we make some bold new proclamations for what’s in store for 2026, and of course, share what’s made us happy this year. Our past predictions were pretty hit or miss. Although a surge in popularity for simpler frontend frameworks like SolidJS and a whole slew of new w...

2 weeks ago

52 minutes

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125: The RSC Vulnerabilities Keep Coming

Hot on the heels of the first critical vulnerability discovered in React applications using RSCs last week, two more vulnerabilities have surfaced, which is not uncommon. Even if you already updated for the critical vulnerability, you will need to update again. In lighter news, Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, just one year after introducing it to the world. MCP’s rise has been meteoric: 10,000 active public MCP servers, adoption by ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, VS Code...

3 weeks ago

40 minutes

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124: TanStack Enters the AI Arena—Meet TanStack AI

This week TanStack joins the AI wars with the alpha release of TanStack AI: an open-source AI SDK with a unified interface across multiple providers. TanStack AI is an open-source ecosystem of libraries and standards, and it is client, server, and AI provider agnostic, to make building AI-enabled apps accessible to all. In a surprise move, AI company Anthropic acquires JavaScript runtime Bun to accelerate its development of Claude Code. Apparently, Bun has been central to Claude Code reaching...

1 month ago

44 minutes

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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...

1 month ago

48 minutes

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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...

1 month ago

44 minutes

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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...

2 months ago

42 minutes

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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...

2 months ago

54 minutes

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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...

2 months ago

47 minutes

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

Back in May, the Remix cofounders revealed they were reimagining Remix v3 from the ground up, and this past week at Remix Jam, they gave a sneak peek of it. It’s fair to say this new framework shouldn’t be called Remix at all because it’s departed so far from its origins: devs manually update state, it uses signals, routes are defined in a TS doc, and it will ship with a component library, for starters. Will it catch on, who knows? Not to be outdone by React v19.2 last week, Next.js 16 beta d...

2 months ago

43 minutes

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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...

2 months ago

41 minutes

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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...

3 months ago

41 minutes

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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...

3 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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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...

3 months ago

56 minutes

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

In this episode: Storybook 10 goes all in on ESM for big performance gainsnpm had a massive supply chain attackAnd Brave found a big security vulnerability in CometTimestamps: 1:12 - Storybook 107:53 - npm’s supply chain attack17:24 - Brave discloses a security vulnerability in Comet26:38 - You’re absolutely right!35:26 - What’s making us happyLinks: Paige - Storybook 10 beta and Storybook 9 featuresJack - npm just suffered the largest supply chain attack in its historyTJ - Brave discloses a ...

3 months ago

50 minutes

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Warp Code and the Future of Agent-Driven Dev

In this episode: We explore a tool that combines a terminal, with a vibe coder and an editor.We found out whether Google actually has to sell off Chrome.And you’ll never guess who bought AI-browser DiaTimestamps: 00:00 - Chapter placeholder marker10:17 - Warp Code22:56 - Atlassian buys The Browser Company31:48 - Anthropic raises $13 billion34:54 - OpenAI is building an AI-powered hiring platform39:42 - What’s making us happy Links: Paige - Atlassian buys The Browser Company for $610 mill...

4 months ago

51 minutes

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Bun v1.2: SQL, YAML & Security Scans

Last episode, we lamented Claude’s lack of checkpoints to roll back code when it goes off the rails. Other devs feel the same, and this week Checkpoints for Claude Code debuted. It’s an MCP server that follows Claude Code, creating checkpoints when tasks are completed, allowing for easy reverts when needed. The Bun team quietly pushed some nice new features in Bun v1.2. Highlights include: a unified SQL client with zero dependencies, native YAML file support, OS native credential storage for ...

4 months ago

41 minutes

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Alchemy: IaC Without Terraform

The latest craze for MCP this week? Instead of multiple MCP servers with different tools, use an MCP server that accepts programming code as tool inputs - a single “ubertool” if you will. AI agents like Claude Code are pretty good at writing code, but letting the agent write and execute code to invoke API functions instead of using a defined MCP server doesn’t seem like the most efficient use of LLM tokens, but it's another approach to consider. In infrastructure news, there’s a library calle...

4 months ago

54 minutes

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TanStack Devtools: One Panel to Rule Them All

You just can’t keep TanStack out of the news for more than a few weeks before a new product appears. This week, it’s TanStack Devtools, which provides a centralized devtools panel of all the Tanstack libraries for streamlined DX and custom devtools support. The State of CSS 2025 survey results are in, and highlights include: devs love the new `:has()` feature, Tailwind CSS continues to be the most popular CSS framework, and over 60% of respondents are still using Sass or SCSS in their web app...

4 months ago

50 minutes

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TanStack DB: Reactive Apps Without Firebase

There’s drama brewing between AI-answer engine company Perplexity and hosting platform Cloudflare, which recently declared it would actively block AI bots from crawling websites without the owners’ permission. Cloudflare received complaints, set up its own test sites, and then asked Perplexity pointed questions only - and got answers! Not a great look, Perplexity. Two years after Vercel launched v1 of its AI SDK, it has dropped v5, and it’s got some major improvements. Rebuilt chat hooks, imp...

5 months ago

45 minutes

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Is es-toolkit the Lodash Killer?

On this episode: Es-toolkit sets its sites on permanently dethroning Lodash Is oRPC a better tRPC? We’ll explain what that means.And we talk about some… interesting results from the Stack Overflow developer survey.Links: Paige - es-toolkit is coming for LodashJack - oRPCTJ - Stack Overflow 2025 survey resultsBolt hackathon winnersMicrosoft Edge Copilot ModeState of HTML surveyPaige - Monopoly Deal card gameJack - Gridfinity 3D printed grid storage systemTJ - NY Times Games AppThanks as a...

5 months ago

47 minutes