Syntax – Tasty Web Development Treats
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About the podcast
Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
Episodes 867
1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?
Scott and Wes sit down with GitHub’s Kyle Daigle to ask what the hell is going on with GitHub: the downtime, the agent traffic spike, and the infrastructure overhaul decoupling storage from compute. Plus …
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Scott and Wes sit down with GitHub’s Kyle Daigle to ask what the hell is going on with GitHub: the downtime, the agent traffic spike, and the infrastructure overhaul decoupling storage from compute. Plus Copilot Fusion’s cascade and critique modes, npm supply chain security, and whether pull requests are dead.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:07 What the Hell Is Going On with GitHub?
- 01:42 GitHub’s Growth by the Numbers: Billions of Commits a Month
- 03:36 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 04:00 GitHub’s Huge Infrastructure Update: Decoupling Storage from Compute
- 06:41 Moving to Azure and the Busy Monorepo Problem
- 09:00 Is CI the New Bottleneck? Rethinking Testing for Agents
- 11:01 Are Pull Requests Dead? Contributing Tokens Instead of Homework
- 13:16 GitHub Copilot App: Will We Ever Get Sign In with ChatGPT?
- 14:51 Is Copilot Fusion Just a Model Router? Cascade and Critique Modes
- 17:30 Can You Use Copilot Fusion in Other Harnesses?
- 18:31 What’s Going On with npm? Supply Chain Security
- 20:30 Do We Even Need Dependencies, or Should We Vibe Code Our Own?
- 22:13 Is npm Still a Focus for GitHub?
- 23:29 Audience Questions: Novel Code Storage Architectures and the Future of Git
- 26:05 Making Git Easier for Shipping with Agents
- 27:54 It’s About the People: Celebrating Open Source at Universe
- 29:52 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Kyle: Studio Roem notebook
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1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors
Wes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex dictation app, Mitchell …
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Wes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex dictation app, Mitchell Hashimoto's Rex terminal, TanStack Redact, Cloudflare's TypeScript port to Rust, Vercel's Agent Desktop, the new touchscreen MacBook Pros, a flood of CVEs, and a certificate authority whose private key was the number 4.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:11 Anomaly’s Hex Dictation App
- 05:00 The Battle to Own Your Computer
- 07:45 Raycast’s iOS Keyboard
- 10:11 The New AI Design Meta
- 11:05 Rex: A Next Gen Terminal
- 17:37 Rex Remote Hosts and Scripting
- 22:55 Reddit Is Closing Its Doors
- 28:46 Bots and Captchas
- 33:29 r/opensource Bans AI
- 37:41 CSS-Tricks Has a New Owner
- 41:08 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 41:34 Silent Dictation Glasses
- 45:49 Arc Is Dead
- 49:42 Pico CSS Is Unmaintained
- 50:49 TanStack Redact
- 52:37 tsrs: TypeScript in Rust
- 55:34 Vercel’s Agent Desktop
- 59:26 Agents in a macOS VM
- 01:00:38 Claude Is Back in OpenCode
- 01:01:41 Touchscreen MacBook Pros
- 01:11:21 Discord Goes Discoverable
- 01:13:31 Notification Overload
- 01:14:50 Security Roundup
- 01:15:33 What Is a CVE?
- 01:18:01 PHP, Linux and GitLab CVEs
- 01:22:18 Abliterated Models
- 01:23:38 eMudhra’s Private Key Was 4
- 01:31:09 Apple Music’s iPod 404 Page
- 01:33:18 Norway’s Best Toilets
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1053: What’s in Our Home Lab
Scott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs. DIY ZFS storage, Home …
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Scott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs. DIY ZFS storage, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Immich, Kiwix, and coding over the network with T3 Code and OpenCode.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:56 What’s in Our Homelabs? Servers, Pis and Workhorse Machines
- 03:54 Proxmox Explained: A Hypervisor OS for Your Home Lab
- 05:49 Scott’s Fully 3D Printed Server Rack and Mac Studio
- 11:19 Keeping It Quiet: Server Fans and Noisy NAS Drives
- 12:58 Networking: Building a Custom OPNsense Firewall
- 15:08 Load Balancing Two ISPs With SFP+ Fiber
- 20:07 Wi-Fi Access Points and VLAN Network Segmentation
- 21:40 Scott’s Switch and Eero Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Setup
- 25:55 Ditching the ISP Router: PPPoE and Bridge Mode
- 27:51 Accessing Your Services Remotely With Tailscale
- 31:08 Local Domains and TLS Certificates With Caddy and Cloudflare
- 34:37 NAS and Storage: Synology vs. a DIY Setup
- 38:59 Hot and Cold Storage: Hardware RAID, ZFS and Cockpit
- 45:20 Container Management With OrbStack, Proxmox and Portainer
- 47:52 Termix: SSH Into Your Servers From the Browser
- 48:50 Home Automation With Home Assistant and Apollo Automation
- 51:02 Flashing Wyze Cams With Thingino for Frigate
- 52:30 Cloud-Free Smart Devices: ESPHome, Tasmota and Bluetooth Proxies
- 57:07 Self-Hosted Media: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and Immich
- 01:02:37 RSS, Read Later and YouTube Archiving With Tube Archivist
- 01:04:01 Offline Internet: Wikipedia and Stack Overflow With Kiwix
- 01:05:46 Paperless-ngx for Device Manuals and Documents
- 01:07:44 AI Coding Agents: Scott’s Pi Durable Personal Agent
- 01:09:46 Coding Over the Network With T3 Code and Zed Remote
- 01:15:39 CJ’s OpenCode, Open WebUI and code-server Setup
- 01:20:02 What’s in Your Homelab? Roast Our Setups
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1052: Github Universe Keynote Recap
Scott, Wes, and CJ report live from GitHub Universe in San Francisco, breaking down GitHub’s re-architecture for agent-scale traffic, the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Fusion, Projects, Automations, and AI push …
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Scott, Wes, and CJ report live from GitHub Universe in San Francisco, breaking down GitHub’s re-architecture for agent-scale traffic, the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Fusion, Projects, Automations, and AI push protection. Plus hacked conference badges, a USB-C lanyard, and the Syntax macropad.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:08 Syntax Meetup Recap in San Francisco
- 02:10 Our Best Swag Ever: The USB-C Lanyard
- 04:11 The Syntax Macropad: How CJ and Wes Built a Web Configurator
- 07:37 GitHub Universe Swag, Good and Cringe, Plus the Matching Mugs
- 09:52 Hacking the GitHub Universe Badges: Wes’s Photo Booth Printer
- 13:15 Scott’s Badge: Pinball, a Bug Shooter and a Music Sequencer
- 15:34 The Scale of GitHub in 2026: Pushes, Commits and Actions
- 17:19 Performance and Reliability: How GitHub Is Re-Architecting for Scale
- 19:49 The GitHub Copilot Desktop App and Team Collaboration
- 21:10 Copilot Projects: Shared Chat and Agents Across Repos
- 22:15 Wishing for Sign In with ChatGPT in Copilot
- 23:37 Copilot Fusion: Single, Cascade and Critique Model Orchestration
- 27:22 Session Continuity Across Every Surface: Do We Still Need Editors?
- 29:24 Copilot Automations: Scheduled and Event-Driven Cloud Agents
- 31:06 Will Enterprise Buy-In Pull People Back to GitHub?
- 33:09 GitHub Advanced Security: Secret Scanning and AI Push Protection
- 35:20 Closing Remarks: 1% of the Code We’ll Write in Five Years
- 36:47 Developer Burnout, Constraints and Reading the YouTube Comments
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1051: Mourning the Death of Code
Scott and Wes tackle your potluck questions, from passing context between Claude Code and Codex to whether AI-generated skills are any good. Plus high-fidelity Figma builds, WebSerial reconnects on an ESP32 …
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Scott and Wes tackle your potluck questions, from passing context between Claude Code and Codex to whether AI-generated skills are any good. Plus high-fidelity Figma builds, WebSerial reconnects on an ESP32, AG-UI vs WebMCP, a listener who thinks Syntax is too pro-AI, and Scott’s minimal Pi setup.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:05 How Do You Pass Context When Switching Coding Agents?
- 06:40 Are AI Generated Skills Even Good?
- 11:53 Getting AI Agents to Nail High Fidelity Figma Designs
- 17:45 What Technical Skills Should I Focus On Without a CS Background?
- 20:50 Be Curious: The Photo Frame Hardware Business Example
- 25:13 Is Syntax Too Pro-AI? Responding to a Listener’s Criticism
- 30:55 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 31:38 Handling WebSerial Reconnects When Flashing an ESP32
- 34:57 Mourning the Death of Code: Feeling Guilty About Hard Won Skills
- 41:44 AG-UI vs WebMCP: Two Approaches to Agent Integration
- 47:12 Scott’s Pi Agent Setup: Start Minimal and Add What You Need
- 51:46 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Cat6 Ethernet Cables
- Wes: Wall-mount Boom Arm
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1050 - Everyone Is Hacking Their TV
Wes, Scott, and CJ run through the week’s biggest web dev news: everyone’s hacking their TVs, VoidZero open-sourced its Void framework with Cloudflare deploys, OpenCode got hacked, and Anthropic built its own …
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Wes, Scott, and CJ run through the week’s biggest web dev news: everyone’s hacking their TVs, VoidZero open-sourced its Void framework with Cloudflare deploys, OpenCode got hacked, and Anthropic built its own git replacement. Plus DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Cloudflare’s security audit skill, Krea 3, a local LLM speed tester, and Killswitch, an esoteric language designed to break coding agents.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:44 CJ Hacks a Round Thrift Store Photo Frame
- 02:18 VoidZero Open Sources the Void Framework
- 06:58 Jev Adds Image Support to Its Decision API
- 11:18 Local Security Cameras: Frigate and Custom Wyze Firmware
- 17:41 LLM Speed: Try Local Models Before You Buy Hardware
- 21:00 Everyone Is Hacking Their TVs With Clean Your TV
- 24:51 Are These the Final Days of Hardware Hacking With LLMs?
- 29:24 Reverse Engineer Everything: Skills for Agentic Hacking
- 31:42 Hacking a Tonal and Building a DIY Digital Resistance Gym
- 37:24 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 38:34 OpenCode Console Hacked: What Happened and Who’s Affected
- 41:31 Black Market API Tokens and Distillation Attacks
- 44:13 Should Everyone Get Access to Cyber Models?
- 47:48 Managing API Keys With Varlock and 1Password
- 48:45 Anthropic Builds Its Own Git Replacement
- 55:15 What Are We Losing in the Agentic Era?
- 01:04:26 Killswitch: A Programming Language Built to Break LLMs
- 01:06:53 Cheng Lou Turns JavaScript Code Into a Neural Net
- 01:09:30 Antfu’s Furigana Font for Reading Japanese
- 01:12:32 Guitoro: Strum a Guitar in the Browser
- 01:17:39 Playing Snake on Network Switch Lights
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1049: WTF is a Software Factory?
Scott and Wes talk with Adam Jacob about software factories: what they actually are, why they’re unique to each team, and how to build trust in agent-generated code. They dig into Swamp Club, black box testing …
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Scott and Wes talk with Adam Jacob about software factories: what they actually are, why they’re unique to each team, and how to build trust in agent-generated code. They dig into Swamp Club, black box testing, domain driven design, adversarial review for accessibility, and whether unit tests still earn their keep.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:10 What Is Swamp Club and Adam Jacob’s Background
- 02:37 Scott’s Personal Automations: Cleaning Folders and Filing Sentry Bugs
- 03:28 Where Does This Fit If You Already Run Claude Code?
- 07:22 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 07:46 Swapping Models and APIs: Flipping the Agent Loop Inside Out
- 09:40 Pricing and Bringing Your Own Inference
- 10:18 What Is a Software Factory, Really?
- 14:50 Shipping 2,500 PRs a Month: Trust, Automation, and Black Box Testing
- 16:55 Software Factory or Slop Factory? A Perception Problem
- 19:06 How Big Companies Can Start: Give Five People Permission to Break the Rules
- 24:16 Who Has Actually Pulled This Off So Far?
- 25:54 What Do You Do With 10,500 Engineers?
- 28:56 The Vibe Coded Adobe Suite: When Does This Stop?
- 30:24 Personal Software: What If Software Got Smaller, Not Bigger?
- 33:51 Testing With AI: Black Box, Integration, and Deleting Your Unit Tests
- 39:03 How Do You Validate Trust in a Factory?
- 39:30 Domain Driven Design Gives Your Agent a Vocabulary
- 43:12 Adversarial Review: Accessibility, Lighthouse, and Fixing the Machine
- 46:17 Why Skills Alone Aren’t Enough
- 49:00 Figuring It Out Together: Engineers, Not the Labs, Know Their Systems
- 53:53 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Adam: Dell XPS-14 running Linux with Omachy, Lorna Shore
- Adam: Swamp Club, Swamp Club Discord
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1048: Deno Is Dead
Deno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable objects, TanStack Start 1.0, SubQ …
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Deno is shutting down and the team is heading to Cloudflare — Scott, Wes, and CJ break down what that means for the runtime, JSR, and workerd. Plus OpenCode 2.0 on durable objects, TanStack Start 1.0, SubQ Snap, Gemini 4 Argon, and Wes’s accidental $50 photo frame movement.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:31 Deno Is Shutting Down: The Team Joins Cloudflare
- 06:23 Why Bun Spelled the End of Deno
- 12:24 OpenCode 2.0: Durable Objects, Code Mode and Hot Reloading Plugins
- 20:24 Where Should Your Agent Actually Run?
- 21:41 Talorys: A Personal AI Agent on the Cloudflare Free Tier
- 22:42 I Accidentally Started a $50 Photo Frame Movement
- 27:05 Agent Driven Open Source: Dozens of Pull Requests From Bots
- 35:11 SubQ Snap: A Cheaper, Smarter Decision Model Than Jev
- 41:26 AirDrop Reverse Engineered: Continuity on Linux
- 44:47 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 45:24 TanStack Start 1.0 Is Officially Stable
- 55:23 The FFF vs fsearch Twitter Drama
- 59:34 Model Roundup: Hands On With Gemini 4 Argon
- 01:08:01 Zen Garden: Ranking Models on Their 3D Taste
- 01:12:49 Muse Wonder From Meta
- 01:15:15 EmbeddingGemma 2 and Why Embeddings Power Better Search
- 01:18:32 Claude Haiku 5.5 Gains Thinking Levels
- 01:20:19 Grok Bot Leaks a CEO’s Bank Balance Into Company Slack
- 01:24:18 CJ’s Whirlwind Tour: A Commodore 64 Keycap Font
- 01:25:08 Lightbulb Computer: A Projector Screwed Into Your Ceiling
- 01:29:11 Recomps and Decomps: Running PS5 Games on Linux and Windows
- 01:32:23 Open Source Photoshop Clones and the Whole Craft Suite
- 01:35:25 Audacity 4 and the Case for Forking Old Open Source Apps
- 01:36:35 PS2 and PSP Games Recompiled to WebAssembly
- 01:37:39 Bootstrap 6 Alpha Brings Back Real Buttons
- 01:39:39 Wrapping Up the Live Stream
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1047: Adobe has a big problem
Someone just clean-room ported seven Adobe apps to Rust, and Wes is shocked at how good it is. Scott and Wes break down what it gets right, what’s still missing, and why copying software is easy but inventing …
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Someone just clean-room ported seven Adobe apps to Rust, and Wes is shocked at how good it is. Scott and Wes break down what it gets right, what’s still missing, and why copying software is easy but inventing what comes next is the hard part.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:12 Adobe Is in Trouble: A Clean Room Port of the Entire Suite
- 02:22 Scott’s Long Running Adobe Grudge Since 2017
- 03:42 Figma Is Not a Raster Tool: Why Every Alternative Falls Short
- 04:40 Opening Real Photoshop Files: Masks, Half Tones and Blend Modes
- 06:30 What Clean Room Porting Actually Means
- 09:54 A Familiar Interface, Entirely Built in Rust
- 10:15 Don’t Trash the Whole Thing Over One or Two Bugs
- 12:14 What’s Missing: Artboards and the Tiny UI Interactions
- 13:53 Where Are the Vibe Coded Photoshops? Four Months Later
- 14:33 Figma’s Locked Down MCP and the Backlash
- 17:22 Dylan’s Clap Back at Anthropic’s Own Closed Ecosystem
- 18:08 The Real Photoshop Replacement Will Be a New Way of Working
- 21:35 Good UI Is Still the Moat
- 22:28 Caring About Your Project Past Two Days
- 23:05 Audio Crackles and Paper Cuts: The Bugs Only Humans Chase
- 24:56 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 26:28 Copying Is Easy: The Hard Part Is Inventing What Comes Next
- 27:28 DaVinci Resolve Keeps Shipping Useful Releases
- 28:26 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: KWS V2 Rack
- Wes: Insta360 Luna
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1046: The Pi Updates are insane
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of issues. Plus Supabase picks up …
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Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of issues. Plus Supabase picks up Turso, Screen Studio 4 drops, JavaScript Composites bring value-based equality, and a stack of new AI models from Google, OpenAI, Cloudflare, and more.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax Weekly
- 00:46 example.com gets a facelift
- 04:37 The death of pull requests
- 12:46 pi v1.0
- 24:14 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 25:08 Turso Joining Supabase
- 28:13 Screen Studio Updates
- 33:24 Svelte 3.0 Release
- 35:32 Effect 4.0
- 38:14 Alchemy
- 42:59 Foldkit
- 44:10 OpenAI Dev Day Announcements
- Dots
- Rahim Nathwani’s reply regarding Luna
- Plugin Extensions
- Sites in ChatGPT
- 56:40 Cloudflare Clef Decision Model
- 01:01:25 Gemini 4 Argon
- 01:09:04 Flux 3 Image Model
- 01:11:50 Claude Mods
- 01:13:44 Muse Gadgets
- 01:17:27 Nvidia Lyra 2.0 World Model
- 01:27:30 Game Recomps and Decomps
- 01:30:54 JS Composite Type
- 01:35:00 RFC 1149 Auction
- 01:37:49 eslint cssicorn
- 01:39:15 Syntax Meetup
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1045: Who can actually max out 5 AI subscriptions?
Scott and Wes answer listener questions about what replaced blogging, what to do while your AI agent works, and who should pay for token costs. They also cover keeping agents from going off the rails, getting …
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Scott and Wes answer listener questions about what replaced blogging, what to do while your AI agent works, and who should pay for token costs. They also cover keeping agents from going off the rails, getting your team excited about AI, and staying motivated when AI takes the fun out of coding.
Show Notes- 00:00 Intro
- 00:40 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:37 What’s the Modern Day Equivalent of Blogging?
- 08:35 What Should You Be Doing While Your Agent Works?
- 13:23 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 14:02 How Much Should Your Employer Cover for Token Spend?
- 18:32 Tracking What You Actually Burn with Codex Bar
- 20:26 How Do You Code HTML Emails in 2026?
- 25:22 How Do You Keep an Agent From Going Off the Rails?
- 30:23 Steering an Agent Mid Turn: Which Harness Does It Best?
- 32:44 How Do I Get My Engineers Interested in AI?
- 35:48 Beyond Telegram: Better Interfaces for Non Coding Agents
- 38:41 Staying Motivated When AI Takes the Fun Parts of Coding
- 41:55 Killing Rogue Node Processes and Restarting Your Machine
- 44:12 Custom Internal Harnesses: Worth It or a Token Hog?
- 47:47 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Driving Rogue
- Wes: Amazon Basics Electric Screwdriver
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1044: Ruby on Rails is Dead
Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already …
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Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome
- 01:11 upm is a tiny fast npm
- 07:34 Zuck cooked with Muse
- 19:21 Ruby on Rails is Dead
- 27:55 loco - Rails for Rust
- 31:06 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 33:12 How should new developers learn?
- 41:40 Opus 5.5 First Impressions
- 58:27 Tart - virtualization toolset for Apple Silicon
- 01:01:43 jevgrep
- 01:06:49 SHOW ME YOUR RACK
- 01:09:04 Chrome gets responsive iframe resizing
- 01:10:25 Bastardica - bastard web font foundry
- 01:14:23 Sonnet 5.5 Released
- 01:16:37 OpenAI Dev Day
- 01:20:02 Syntax SF Meetup
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1043: I’m Using GPUI For Everything
Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like Tailwind, GPUI Kit components, the …
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Scott and Wes ditch Electron and Tauri for GPUI, the GPU accelerated Rust UI framework from the Zed team. They get into its React-like API, styling that feels a lot like Tailwind, GPUI Kit components, the community fork drama, and the tiny desktop apps Scott has built with it.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:24 Electron, Tauri, and the Trouble With Web Views
- 04:05 Enter GPUI: Why We Don’t Take Money to Talk About Tools
- 05:32 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 05:59 What GPUI Is: GPU Accelerated, Cross Platform, Native All the Way Down
- 06:50 A React Like API in Rust: Divs, Flex, and Chained Methods
- 09:35 Components, Props, and State in GPUI
- 11:21 How Much of CSS Does GPUI Actually Reimplement?
- 12:52 Flexbox Everywhere, But Where Is CSS Grid?
- 14:17 Where Does Your App Logic Live? No RPC Layer Needed
- 15:53 Render vs RenderOnce: Stateful and Static Components
- 16:57 GPUI Kit: The shadcn of GPUI
- 18:46 GPUI CE: The Community Fork and Ecosystem Tension
- 21:29 Apps Scott Built With GPUI: Gendo, File Bro, and Mr. Space
- 22:48 Why Tiny Utility Apps Should Stay Tiny
- 24:25 File Bro: File Automations a la Hazel
- 25:27 Mr. Space: Building a macOS Window Manager
- 27:05 The Downsides: No Native UI Elements and No Browser DOM
- 29:56 Testing GPUI Apps With Jev and the Accessibility Tree
- 30:39 GPUI Mobile: Experimental, But It Works
- 31:52 Final Verdict: GPUI for Personal Desktop Software
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1042: Is the Jev Hype Overblown?
Is Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free, open-source Raycast alternative), an iPhone Fold simulator …
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Is Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free, open-source Raycast alternative), an iPhone Fold simulator in Xcode, and a stack of dev tools you’ll want to try
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:17 The iPhone Fold Simulator and Foldable Web APIs
- 07:03 Claude Code Finally Supports agents.md
- 11:42 Using Your Claude Subscription Inside PI
- 13:07 Raycast Pricing Changes and the Rise of Tinycast
- 18:24 Our Most Used Raycast Features
- 21:22 Browser Hopping: Back on Helium After Ditching Dia
- 22:12 1Password’s Redesign and Reliability Problems
- 23:11 Jev Explained: A Model That Only Answers Questions
- 31:59 CJ’s Jev Chat Bot Demo With MCP Tools
- 36:09 The Kevs in the Room: Open Source Jev Alternatives
- 45:39 What We’ve Actually Built With Jev So Far
- 51:59 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 52:55 GPUI Kit: Building Native Rust Desktop Apps
- 58:07 Antfu’s DevFrame: A Framework for Building Dev Tools
- 59:45 Where Is the Line on Using AI in Video Editing?
- 01:06:00 AI Upscaled Security Photos and Internet Detectives
- 01:08:07 Qwen Image 2.1 and Real Transparent Backgrounds
- 01:10:18 AI Generated Posters Don’t Have to Be Horrible
- 01:13:28 Orca: A GUI for Wrangling Your Fleet of Agents
- 01:15:37 Grok 4.7 First Impressions and Its Pricing
- 01:18:58 Waiting on Google and Microsoft’s Big Models
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1041: What are normies using AI for?
Scott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and automated marketing. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:38 …
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Scott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and automated marketing.
Show Notes- 00:00 Intro
- 00:38 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:50 Finding Parts With AI: Van Buckles and Weird Bolts
- 03:59 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 04:37 Fixing Printers, Drivers, and Annoying Home Network Stuff
- 05:32 Rescuing E-Waste: Flashing a Broken Skylight Calendar
- 08:42 Red Tape, Permits, and Filling Out Awful PDF Forms
- 09:57 Self-Hosting Made Easy: Updating Your NAS and Docker Containers
- 11:18 Fighting Home Assistant Rot With Agents
- 13:20 Inbox and Calendar Management for a Family of Six
- 18:05 AI in Real Estate and Property Staging
- 21:10 Using Agents for Video Editing and Multicam Automation
- 23:53 GFX.computer: Building Better Infographics
- 25:59 Things That Won’t Hold Up: Generated Text and Automated Marketing
- 30:27 Home Lab Management Over Tailscale and SSH
- 32:46 3D Printing Parts With Nurb: Stands, Cases, and Airflow
- 34:51 MCP Servers for Software You Only Use Occasionally
- 36:58 Travel Planning: Great at Logistics, Terrible at Taste
- 39:31 Proposals and Job Applications: Everybody Sounds the Same
- 42:14 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Nomadix Backpack
- Wes: Silicone chair socks
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1040: Developing for the iPhone Duo
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius platform. Also on deck: Tailwind joining Shopify …
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Scott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius platform. Also on deck: Tailwind joining Shopify, Shopify going back to native, Homebrew 7, Aeropeek, and Meta’s Muse Agent.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:05 React 19.3
- 05:30 Pi announces Radius
- 15:26 iPhone Duo Initial Reactions
- 22:35 Developing for the iPhone Duo
- 32:16 Syntax Meetup in SF
- 32:52 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 33:10 Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
- 35:36 Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify
- 40:23 Herdr remote agents
- 46:13 Homebrew 7 Released
- 50:55 Meta Muse AI Agent
- 01:00:19 Scott’s Switzerland Trip
- 01:07:25 Mic FX from Teenage Engineering
- 01:10:46 Three.js conference Badge
- 01:13:29 Don’t let anyone take away your big box of cables
- 01:16:22 Aerospace Tiling Manager
- 01:24:26 Scott’s new backpack
- 01:26:52 Claude, change this button to blue
- Hacker News post
- 01:31:23 Knap markdown template language
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1039: Should You Quit Your Job?
Scott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in interviews, and if the AI bubble is about to pop. Plus …
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Scott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in interviews, and if the AI bubble is about to pop. Plus sandboxing your agents, managing block-based CMS chaos, and what it takes to leave a stable job when you’re risk averse.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:09 Freelance Billing in the Age of AI: Who Gets the Speed Savings?
- 04:33 Value Based Pricing and Leveling Up Your Skills
- 06:37 Will Writing Code Become Irrelevant in Job Interviews?
- 11:05 Finding Human Answers in a Sea of AI Slop
- 14:57 Trust and Community Are the New Currency
- 15:49 Nobody Watches Conference Talks Anymore
- 18:18 Is the AI Bubble Going to Pop?
- 24:07 Where Is All the Software AI Was Supposed to Build?
- 26:19 AI Fatigue: When All You Do Is Review Code
- 30:03 Managing Large Block Based CMS Systems
- 38:57 Taking the Leap: Leaving a Stable Job as a Risk Averse Dev
- 43:45 Sandboxing Your Agents Instead of Running YOLO Mode
- 45:38 Will AI Companies Fingerprint and Ad Target You?
- 49:36 Labeling YouTube Exclusive Episodes for Podcast Listeners
- 52:16 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Sandpaper Pads, Jellyfin, Apps2Samsung
- Wes: Hisense TV
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1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra
Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s robot duck, Vitest 5 and the arrest …
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Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s robot duck, Vitest 5 and the arrest behind the shai‑hulud supply chain attacks
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:52 30 Years of JScript: How Microsoft Cloned JavaScript
- 03:28 Ryan Dahl’s Fight to Free the JavaScript Trademark
- 05:48 The Rise of Micro Ducks and DIY Robotics
- 13:58 VeriSign Is Killing Third Level .name Domains
- 18:31 How Many Domains Do You Own? Registrar Pricing and Transfers
- 21:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Here: Is This Actually AGI?
- 23:40 Computer Use: Letting AI Draw Our Thumbnail in MS Paint
- 33:10 Can AI Edit Video? The DaVinci Resolve MCP Hype
- 40:18 Blender, 3D Workflows and the Death of Educational Content
- 47:45 Audacity 4: A Long Overdue Facelift
- 52:31 Ripping CDs and Owning Your Music Library Again
- 55:35 Vitest 5: Faster Tests, Benchmarks and Trace View
- 59:45 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 01:00:24 Prompt Injecting Claude Opus 5 With a Malicious Zip File
- 01:05:46 The Shai-Hulud Hackers Got Arrested: How They Slipped Up
- 01:09:15 The VS Code Documentary Is Out (and Wes Is In It)
- 01:11:14 216 Million Spy TVs: LG Is Watching and Listening
- 01:17:05 Roku, Walmart and What Your Data Profile Really Knows
- 01:19:12 Google AI Mode Shows Products 21% More Expensive
- 01:22:31 Agentic Shopping and the Sameness of AI Taste
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1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care)
Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They cover the security model …
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Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They cover the security model, headless and multi-tab agents, and how to wire it into an app you’ve already shipped.
Show Notes- 00:00 Intro
- 00:46 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:18 What Is WebMCP and How Is It Different from MCP?
- 02:32 WebMCP for UI: Enabling Agents to Use Websites Directly
- 06:05 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 06:43 Is This Just a Chrome Thing? W3C Standards and Open Development
- 11:49 WebMCP Security: Annotations, Hints, and Multi-Layered Defense
- 15:26 Best Use Cases: E-Commerce, Video Editing, and Complex UIs
- 16:27 The WebMCP Challenge: 5,000 Entries and Creative Applications
- 19:20 Headless WebMCP: Running Agents in the Background
- 22:43 Multi-Tab Scenarios: Using WebMCP Across Multiple Sites
- 24:23 WebMCP and Security: Safe Origin Policy and Agent Containment
- 28:09 Performance and Core Web Vitals for the Agentic Web
- 38:11 The Future of Web Monetization: Ads, Commerce, and Agent Payments
- 40:53 Building an Agent Platform: Extensions, Harnesses, and Browser Vendor Roles
- 45:19 Support from Anthropic, Safari, Firefox, and Other Players
- 49:11 Getting Involved: Origin Trial, Community Feedback, and the W3C Spec
- 52:45 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott:
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- Dominic: Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style
- Sarah: Vintage Story
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1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up
The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mitchell …
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The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mitchell Hashimoto drops Superlogical, ~700 AI agents attack Hugging Face, and Zod 4.5's compiled schemas get up to 9x faster.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:33 pnpm 12 Rust Re-Write
- 02:45 Zod 4.5 brings Schema Compilation
- 05:22 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 07:14 Cursor OpenAI Break Up
- 15:35 vGPU - WebGPU library for agents
- 22:32 Omarchy Security Issues and Linux Chat
- 36:38 Scott Bought an M5 Ultra Mac Studio
- 44:45 Superlogical is a new terminal multiplexer
- 48:31 Zurich JS
- 48:55 Katamari Object Library
- 52:05 ThreeUI - Three.js library
- 55:36 Hugging Face Hack Analyzed / Updates
- 01:00:46 llms.txt used to pwn devs
- 01:03:56 Running Isolated Code Poll
- 01:05:47 OpenShot 4.0 - OSS Video Editor
- 01:09:06 Lake America
- 01:11:24 Ox Alpha is GLM 5.3
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1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?
Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the best CSS …
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Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the best CSS tool for AI agents.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:18 What Is StyleX and How Does It Work?
- 04:27 The Difference Between StyleX and Other CSS Scoping Methods
- 06:03 What People Are Saying: StyleX Is Superior for AI Agents
- 11:30 Type Safety and Design System Constraints
- 12:46 No Runtime Dependency: All Computed at Build Time
- 13:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 14:13 Reusable Styles: Import, Export, and Auto-Import
- 17:53 Composability and Overriding Styles With JavaScript Objects
- 18:24 It Sucks to Write by Hand
- 19:25 Modern CSS Properties and Waiting for Implementation
- 20:58 Nested CSS and Nested Selectors Are Tricky
- 22:24 Alternatives: Panda CSS and CSS Modules
- 24:41 The Auto-Complete Experience: Why StyleX Shines for Agents
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1034: Omarchy Quattro Release
Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app …
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Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills for your AI via nurb.dev
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 00:37 Grok’s New Agentic App: Grokbot
- 12:51 GitHub’s Major Outage and Postmortem
- 16:42 Cursor’s Origin: A GitHub Competitor
- 22:59 Omarchy: The Linux Distro for Nerds
- 29:21 CachyOS: Another Arch-Based Alternative
- 31:12 The $10 Million Omarchy Foundation
- 34:54 Dactyl: Native iOS and Android Development in the Browser
- 44:19 Nurb: AI-Powered 3D CAD Design
- 49:36 Security Stories: Supply Chain Attacks and Model Cheating
- 49:43 Rust Supply Chain Attack
- 51:34 Every Model Cheats: AI Benchmark Findings
- 53:13 Felony Bench: Ranking AI Models by Crimes Committed
- 54:19 Casio’s Smart Dumb Watch
- 58:43 Everything I Own Is Owned: Reverse Engineering USB Devices with AI
- 01:08:05 The Mystery 0x Alpha Model
- 01:13:48 Dactyl Returns Something
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1033: 8 New CSS, JS and HTML Features You Should Know
Scott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values between units …
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Scott and Wes run through eight new CSS, JS, and HTML features landing in browsers; including the relative alpha() color function, the progress() function for calculating values between units, Promise.allKeyed(), and native camera and microphone elements. They also get into an upgraded attr(), shrink-to-fit containers, and text-box-trim for finally killing that annoying extra space above your text.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:22 CSS Alpha() Relative Color Function
- 02:25 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 02:48 CSS CSS Progress() Function: Calculate Values Between Units
- 05:09 Promise.allKeyed(): Object-Based Promise Resolution
- 06:55 Camera and Microphone HTML Elements
- 09:24 Advanced CSS Attr() Function: Props for CSS
- 11:25 CSS Sibling-Index() and Sibling-Count() Functions
- 13:56 CSS Shrink-to-Fit Container
- 15:36 CSS Text-Box-Trim and Text-Box-Edge
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1032: Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B
Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing reasoning traces from …
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Scott and CJ break down Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter, the SvelteKit 3 release candidate, and their first look at TanStack Charts. Plus Zed's new Delta editor, stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, why dark mode toggles only need two states, and all 43 quintillion Rubik's cube states in your browser.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:20 SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate
- 07:43 Video editor recs
- 09:58 TanStack Charts First Look
- 14:24 Ponytail AI Tool
- 17:22 Zed Delta Editor
- Introducing Delta
- 23:44 Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+
- 29:27 Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
- 35:03 First look at Cursor’s GitHub killer
- 42:34 Dark Mode UX Discussion
- 46:40 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 48:34 Should AI respond in plain language?
- 52:57 Swamp Club Automation
- 01:02:37 Fight AI slop with this anti-slop plugin
- 01:03:39 Rubik’s Cube Permutations
- 01:05:02 Hackweek
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1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying
Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI …
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Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your AI config portable across tools, and bringing Shadcn-level UX to server-rendered frameworks.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:57 AI-Generated Code: Are My Skills Atrophying?
- 06:03 Is It Time to Move On from VS Code?
- 13:19 Hitting Flow State with AI Coding
- 19:15 AT Protocol vs Solid: Decentralized Web Approaches
- 24:55 Which AI Should You Subscribe To?
- 30:23 Making Your AI Setup Portable Across Tools
- 33:56 When to Drop a Tool That Still Works
- 40:12 UX Quality for Traditional Server-Side Frameworks
- 44:14 Using Hermes and Self-Hosted AI Assistants
- 49:27 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: ESP32-S3
- Wes: Sharge ICEMAG3
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1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi …
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An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 02:30 Celld: self host distributed durable objects
- 07:57 $9k Cloudflare Bill
- 13:43 Ogygia - SSR islands for SvelteKit
- 18:49 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 19:51 Standard Code - Unlimited Use AI Subscription
- 29:17 New Meta Model Muse Glimmer
- 36:12 AI Assistant Hacks Gym
- 46:49 This Week in AI
- 54:50 Prime Agent RLM harness
- 01:01:02 Agent Plugin Spec
- 01:04:08 Adam Wathan: A Token is a Token
- 01:07:39 New JS Runtime from Remix Creator
- 01:11:21 Lost phone found with Bluetooth meter
- 01:17:24 Center a div with browser sidebars
- 01:19:49 Flexwind froggy
- 01:21:55 Thanks for watching!
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1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed
Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible …
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Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powers.
Show Notes- 00:00 Start
- 00:35 Welcom to Syntax
- 01:13 The Journey to Zed: Building the Ultimate Tool
- 03:26 Why Rust was chosen for Zed?
- 06:29 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 07:07 Building a UI from scratch in Rust
- 15:55 AI’s role in coding and development
- 18:42 The role of text editors in the age of AI
- 21:52 Delta DB: The vision for collaborative development
- 29:06 The Evolution of Collaborative Coding
- 44:45 The Future of User Interfaces
- 52:42 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
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- Nathan Sobo:
- Scott:
- Wes:
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1028: Cloudflare Wallets
Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new …
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Cloudflare is rolling out crypto wallets with claimable handles as identity, and a real React compiler finally landed for regular hooks-based code. Plus: OpenAI's pricing war, Vue Vapor benchmarks, GitHub's new npm malware scanning, and an active supply chain attack hitting 868 packages.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:02 Shai Hulud is back!
- 05:27 GitHub scans your npm packages for malware
- 06:42 Your agent has a wallet now
- 12:10 Yet another React compiler?
- 27:19 Scott switched his browser AGAIN!
- 31:56 AI Mental health survey
- 32:29 OpenAI models are becoming cheaper?
- 38:49 GitHub stacked PRs finally arrived
- 41:48 AI video podcasts
- 48:15 Brought to you by Sentry!
- 49:28 News from the TC39 meeting
- 56:58 Qwen 3.8
- 01:02:31 Latest and greatest in CSS and UI libraries
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1027: The Rise of the Design Engineer
Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding …
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Scott and Wes tackle your questions on the rise of the design engineer, why AI still lacks “taste” (and why it’s about more than just looks), and how to actually write tests in the age of AI-assisted coding. Plus: is AI a bubble about to burst, keeping coding agents efficient in massive codebases, introducing kids to AI, a Linux life update, and more!
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:18 The Rise of the Design Engineer Role
- 08:39 Why AI Has No Taste: It’s Not Just How It Looks
- 14:28 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 14:52 Testing in the AI Era: Are We Using AI to Write Tests?
- 20:09 Is AI a Bubble? Will It Burst?
- 24:35 Negative Public Sentiment Towards AI and Data Centers
- 30:16 Update on Scott Using Omarchy and Linux
- 38:14 Introducing AI to Kids: A Parent’s Perspective with Dr. Courtney
- 49:34 Getting Hired Without AI Experience: How to Catch Up
- 52:53 Keeping Coding Agents Efficient: Token Usage, Speed, and Accuracy
- 57:10 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Kitchen Sink Brush
- Wes: Magnet Fishing
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1026: OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face
A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude …
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A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner.
Show Notes- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:03 React Compiler Ported to Rust
- 06:39 Vercel releases TS to Native Compiler
- 19:26 Standard Agent Zen Garden
- 29:14 In-House LLM at Netflix
- 34:14 Brought to you by Sentry.io
- 35:15 Anthropic to pay $1.5B over book piracy
- 38:06 Open Weights and American AI Leadership
- 40:27 Kimi K3 Weights Released
- 44:26 Claude 5 Context Engineering
- 45:40 Writing Code For Agents to Read
- 48:02 Gemini 3.6 Flash / 3.5 Flash Cyber
- 50:44 Qwen Image 3.0 Released
- 54:46 Cactus Hybrid - Fine Tune Small Models
- 56:06 topcoat - Rust Full Stack Framework
- 01:01:00 SvelteKit 3 Migration Notes
- 01:05:16 Canvas UI
- 01:07:26 Jelly UI
- 01:09:24 Kill the Cookie Banner
- 01:12:31 Hugging Face Hacked by OpenAI
- 01:21:27 AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
- 01:24:51 htmx 4: the game for gameboy
- 01:29:00 Stolen Buttons
- 01:29:33 Fonts in Use
- 01:32:39 3d Splats
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